Monthly Archives: May 2020

Best Family Friendly Accommodation in FNQ

With Coronavirus restrictions starting to be lifted, I’ve got a feeling that many people might be dreaming and maybe even planning a getaway somewhere for the upcoming school holidays in June/July, so I thought I’d share the best family friendly accommodation we have discovered to date in FNQ, and when I say family friendly I’m talking about big enough for our whole gang of two adults, four kids – yes – we are breeders!

We have been fortunate enough to have quite a few quick trips or one week stays around the traps in FNQ over the last few years, particularly as for the past six years we have had people living on-farm with us, so we really enjoyed the chance to get away and have some quality time ‘just the Fealy Family’ together.  These are not campsites, which is a bit different to what I usually post here on the blog, but for the three years of so duration of Matt’s Nuffield Scholarship – we haven’t had much time or energy for camping so it was holiday houses instead.

Here’s some of our favourites in no particular order ….. oh and I’ve included a photo from the property website as well as one of our stay there – just so you could see that they are as good as they look in the advertising! Continue reading

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Mindful May

new monthI love the start of a new month and the chance to set some new goals and start with a clean slate.  I had a little bit of a light bulb moment today.  You all know I’ve been on a somewhat long journey of ‘self help’ work recently and for the past two months I have been undertaking the Peak Persona Next Level program (shout out that the next cohort kicks off on Sunday – highly recommend!).  Several of the tasks during the program, namely obtaining feedback (of which I hardly looked at the good comments), a mind audit (all ten times I stopped and paid attention to my thoughts had me noting them as grumpy or negative) and undertaking some personality profiling, have made me acutely aware that I very much tend to focus on the negatives and this is holding me back in lots of ways.  This realisation has come as a bit of a shock to me as I would have described myself as a ‘glass half full’ kinda girl. Continue reading

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