The alien looking thing in the photo is a climbing frame and the kids can do heaps of things on it. During the school holidays I was wandering through Southbank with my boys and came across this great new playground at the Ship Inn end of the park lands. We spent a great couple of hours playing here and watching all the other kids,  it was a huge hit for all the ages.

The other new age activities there are:

• a different type of slippery slide, using stainless steel pipes coming out of a bright yellow man made hill
• a big disk swing
• groovy use of mirrors
• a huge spinning stainless steel bowl in a big sand pit
• megaphone pipes
• pathways to follow

The biggest thing and one of the oldest activities you can get for kids was the climbing tree.    Well done Southbank.

Stafford and the surrounding suburbs are often under-rated, underestimated and don’t top the list of locations in Brisbane that are ‘hip-n-happening’.  This area boasts great places to go: neat cafes and/or restaurants, gift and specialty shops (HOME SAVVY being one of them of course, but you already know we’re a treasure) and other places of interest. We want to share with you, some truly fabulous little gems that we know of and hopefully encourage you to try them out for yourself.

We will keep a look out for more and would love to hear about your own special finds in the area.

bite my biscuit- 12 Minimine St Stafford 0424209167

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This lovely little cafe bakes delicious biscuits daily and serves organic Bundaberg coffee, Yummmmm on both counts.  As part of our 8th birthday celebrations we made sure we had a good supply of  bite my biscuit delicious treats to hand out to our birthday guests.  Those who sampled them, loved them and some even went straight round to bite my biscuit premises for coffee and more, that’s how good they are.

TIP: when you have some delicious treats – put them into a fancy urn / jar and add a tag & ribbon for your next morning tea or event, theywill look simply stunning.

I simply love homes and am forever browsing through home magazines,  real estate brochures, newspapers and the internet. They're  a wealth of inspiration and desire and I just never know what I might stumble across.  Well,  I discovered this simply unbelievable & amazing home and just had to share it with you

Architectually designed, by Tony Smyth and built 5 years ago in Mc Dowall (a great suburb just 8klms out of the CBD) you can be forgiven for thinking that this magnificent home was a resort. Can you honestly say that you've seen many homes where the entertaining deck overlooks 2 swimming pools ?? Yes that's right 2 swimming pools – one for laps and the other for a little R n R. But then have I mentioned the indoor water feature – WOW. 

To access this wonderful oasis, you travel down a private street and enter via the timber gates and over the bridge – which takes you over the natural water course of the land – and if you think keeping up the water to the landscaped garden and water features is going to be a problem, think again.  This home has 22,500 litres of water tank storage. With just too many features to go on about I'll let the pictures do the talking

First Impressions count and this is impressive

Do a few laps and then relax and/or entertain on the deck – Champers anyone???

Great outlook over the lap pool  and gardens from the formal dining area

Kitchen is open, airy and full of natural light.

The tranquil sound of water in-doors, another amazing feature of this home

For such a big and open home, and I do mean BIG, it has a wonderful relaxing ambience about it . And if you simply fell in love with this magnificent property – it could be yours as it is on the market with SPACE Property

Tuesday I finally got into  the city to visit the  Museum of Brisbane  where they're showcasing a wonderful collection of Glass Slide images of daily life and activities taken by Alfred Henry Elliot, a Brisbane resident and photograher. The collection is called Chosen View.  The glass slides were discovered in 1983 under a house in Red HIll neatly packed in cigar boxes.

    
There were some images of  the voting / polling booths back in 1899.  Considering are elections are the hot topic of the day I thought it very appropriate to put this image first.

Some of  Brisbane's more well known landmarks

And just a little closer to home, the Enoggera Reservoir

There are so many more images to view, but I don't want to spoil it by showing them all to you, it's definitely worth the visit into the Museum of Brisbane at 157 Ann Street, open Monday – Friday, 10.00 am – 5pm