Much About Melbourne

Remember my recent posts about Beechworth and the fires, and the problems with the tourism dropping there? Well, here’s a small update for you. We have a new gourmet cheese shop just opened, lovely lady called Natasha Davis has opened ‘The Larder’ in Camp St, opposite the bakery. She was the guest speaker at the [...]

If you live outside of Australia I bet you still know about the bushfire challenges the state of Victoria has been having.  Today they were forecasting really strong winds and there was a high bushfire alert for the whole state – that ends at midnight tonight. So far, the firemen have kept things under control [...]

The latest fire has hit quite close to home for us.  Graham and I were only at Birdsland Reserve in Belgrave on 14th February and you can see some of my photos at my photoblog.  Today there is a fire tearing its way through the park and heading towards houses that we had only been [...]

I’ve been looking for things relating to the city and state I live in and then realised there should be some emblems.  A quick search soon proved that to be true and here they are: The emblems of Victoria include… Floral emblem: Pink Heath Animal emblem: Leadbeater’s Possum Bird emblem: Helmeted Honey-eater Marine Faunal Emblem: [...]

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 [...]