Much About Melbourne

After a long period of little or no rain, and often extreme heat, we finally have had a break with cooler weather and rain, glorious rain! Our pond at home is now full. We have a pipe leading from the gutter on our roof straight into the pond which has helped considerably but evenso, the [...]

Well, they keep promising us rain – here it is Easter Sunday and we had a very small sprinkle on Thursday – barely touched the ground. I thought we were supposed to have rain for about 3 days there and today they said ‘a shower or two’. Just checked the BOM radar and it shows [...]

I turned into our street a few nights ago and got a view of the whole street and was instantly struck by the changing colours of the trees. Autumn has arrived. Although you wouldn’t know it as we’re experiencing intense heat. Today was forecast 40C – very hot! Where I live it actually got to [...]

Last night I went out to dinner with a few ladies from my church to a great vegetarian cafe in Ormond (south-east of Melbourne) for a getting-to-know you time. We’re newly formed as a house church group and the men went to one restaurant and we went to another. What a lovely night it was [...]