Much About Melbourne

It’s almost Spring in Melbourne but at the moment we’re still experiencing cold weather and rain – which is good. We’ve had lots of wind this season – far more than I can remember from past years. However I do love being in Melbourne all year round. Today I visited my daughter in Monbulk and [...]

Just had a guy who said he was from AGL and showed me a badge. He wanted to replace my globes for free energy saving ones – I had heard there is such a promotion. But who’s going to let a stranger in the house to replace their globes for them? I’d have to spend [...]

And it’s been a winter in my life too which is why I’ve not been here a real lot. But spring is on its way and with it renewed vigour for lots of things, including writing here. If you haven’t already, you might like to visit my photoblog which is posted to daily and shows [...]

If  you want to get away from suburbia and enjoy our lovely countryside, you could head up towards Kallista and visit the many gardens and grounds there.  One of them, Grant’s Picnic Ground, has a large variety of birds that happily visit with the visitors in return for food.  There is a cafe there, walking [...]

I’ve driven past this park many times over years as I’ve gone about my business or visited my family but it never occurred to me to visit it till this past week. I knew it was reclaimed land that had been turned into a wetland reserve and this occurred sometime after 1994 when we’d shifted [...]