Much About Melbourne

The daily news is full of the aftermath of the bushfires in our state and I don’t think it’s something we’ll get used to hearing about.  However, people in other parts of the state are continuing with their daily lives, in between donating to charities, or giving of their time to various relief efforts to [...]

I got this message from one of my Virtual Assistants who lives and works in Beechworth. Whilst there have been fires very close by and they have been on alert, she wants to spread the word that they haven’t been wiped out and still depend very much on the tourism that helps their area to [...]

This blog has just been shifted to my own server and imported into WordPress. Hope you like the new look! The header image was taken by me looking out from near the top of the Crown Towers towards the Flinders Street Station (long yellow building) over the other side of the Yarra River in December [...]

It’s 6.39pm and I went outside to see what the bright glow was coming through my office window. There had been news reports earlier in the day not to panic, that burning off is happening in the hills to help protect areas around Melbourne from the bush fires but that Melbourne would be shrouded by [...]

The news was first filled with the horror of it all but now the sick news stories are coming out. Those who are bogus charities collecting funds, a 15 year old boy who has been arrested for starting one smaller fire on the weekend, people looting the burned homes before the owners have been allowed [...]