Much About Melbourne

I was listening to my radio station the other morning and Susie was talking about the history of the Christmas Carol events that are now held worldwide. It all started with a man seeing a lonely woman in a window singing a carol in the light of a candle and he decided to bring people [...]

I belong to Bayside Church and each year for around the past 12 years, my church hosts a lunch on Christmas Day for those who are alone or lonely. They continue to seek volunteers to join in on the day and at this stage have around 250 lonely or otherwise people registered for the lunch. [...]

When I was a kid mum and dad used to take us (my sisters, brother and I) to the Brewery display. I remember being dressed in our pyjamas, dressing gown and slippers and being amongst other families dressed similarly to watch this wonderful display. I found this photo at Adelaide in Photos and tried to [...]

Myers in Melbourne has been providing a great family attraction of stories of all sorts of things in their window every Christmas since around 1956. Each year is a different theme and families line up waiting to view the windows and see the amazing displays that have been set up. It must take their staff [...]

One of our daughters went out walking and sight-seeing in the evenings over the weekend. The Christmas light displays are starting to come out in full force. We live not too far from the seaside in Melbourne and there seems to be this competition amongst the various neighbourhoods to put on the best display of [...]