Much About Melbourne

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 [...]

I love the Australian countryside and the gum trees have such character. Here’s a small selection from this weekend’s visit to Lysterfield Park. Tweet This Post

Here it is, past the middle of November and leading up to Summer and we’re experiencing cold, wet and windy days and thank God, much needed rain. The news report on the radio this morning told us that so far we’d received 20mm of water in the catchment areas and that was just by 9am. [...]

With a public holiday yesterday in Australia, my husband and I decided to spend sometime with our eldest daughter and husband. So we took a drive to Ferntree Gully where the boys (Graham and Ryan) promptly took off on their mountain bikes for a ride in the hills and Melanie and I drove to Kallista [...]