Much About Melbourne

Here in Australia we celebrate ANZAC Day on 25th April each year.  For most of the country that means Monday is made a public holiday but here in Victoria that was abolished which is a shame.  However this just means that since Anzac Day is a Saturday this year many shops were closed for the [...]

There’s a fast food advertisement being played on TV at the moment where a young man buys two meals at a really cheap price and then when he sets the meals down in front of his mate his mate tells him he only has $5.00. The first young man responds ‘that will have to do’ [...]

If  you’re a visitor to Melbourne you can’t be blamed for thinking that Aussie Rules Football (otherwise known as AFL – Australian Football League) is a religion in this rather large city. You hear about it almost every single day. Come to think of it, it is EVERY day.  From the time we wake up [...]

I was planning to go to the Melbourne Flower & Garden Show this afternoon. I have a busy weekend coming up with photo shoots on Saturday and Sunday so couldn’t plan to go on the weekend before it finished.  However today’s heavy rainfalls put a stop to my planned trip.  So I decided to brush [...]

For the second time in about 12 days, Melbourne has been shaken by an earthquake. This one measured 4.6 and took place at Korumburra, same as the last one. They’re saying that people 200kms away could feel the effects. This afternoon I heard the walls start to shake and then it sounded like someone was [...]