Every Day Life
Our Summer Days Out
Our summer is much more mild than usual but this week we have had some nice days that made it very pleasant to be out and about. Our first day out was to go for a drive down to the Morning Peninsula to Seawind Gardens and have a picnic lunch. We picked up a baguette […]
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Grumpybum’s Photography Gallery
I’m getting more grumpy as I get older, but I’ve decided to do something about it. I have over 85,000 photos in my image collection from my travel to over 65 countries, along with images from my many local photo shoots. Rather than just have them just sit on my hard drive, I’ve created a […]
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It’s an Exciting Time Here In Melbourne
At the moment, Melbourne is abuzz with excitement and activity. We wrestled with big crowds, today, as we drove into the CBD for lunch and then to see one of Melbourne’s outstanding art attractions.. At the moment, in Melbourne, we have the Australian Open tennis match at the Tennis Centre with big crowds, closed streets and […]
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The Other Way is a Very Long Trip Indeed!
The Kimberley region of Australia is about as far from Melbourne as you can get. It is diagonally across the continent and is a vast and remote area of the outback. Life there is tough . Tides in the town of Derby average about 11 metres (36 feet). The water temperature of the public swimming […]
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This is a Relaxing Time of Year
The period between Christmas and New Year is quite a relaxed time of year for us. The rush leading up to Christmas is over and it’s time to sit back, relax and catch up with some outstanding tasks. We have had cool and moist weather over the last three years because of the La Niña […]
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My First Day in the Sub Antarctic Islands
We cleared immigration and sailed last night from the Port of Bluff on the Heritage Adventurer. Strong south westerly winds created large seas and the ship rocked and rolled all night By midday today they had mellowed and are now quite flat. For me, w we see alking is a bit like having Parkinson’s – […]
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Rain Problems but Sunny Days at the Zoo
We are in some trouble here in Victoria. The weather forecast for the next day or so is for up to 100 mm (4 inches) of rain. It will cause extensive flooding. I searched the DIY stores and even Amazon to see if I could find some Gopher Wood to build an ark, as Noah […]
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Can’t See My Blog Images?
Some of you who receive subscription emails from my blog, report that they cannot see the images in the updates that they receive by email. This is a problem unique to Apple devices – iPhones. iPads, and Mac computers. I have raised this issue with Apple’s technical people but it has never been resolved. For […]
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We Are Celebrating our 50th Wedding Anniversary
Yesterday was the date in 1972 that Jill and I were married at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Box Hill. The Vicar, a crusty old time priest said, when he found out that I was a Methodist and Jill an Anglican, “Mixed marriages don’t really work”. Well, here we are still together (very happily) after […]
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Lightscape 2022 in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens
There’s another amazing attraction in. Melbourne at the moment. Postponed from last year because of Covid, the Lightscape Event at the Royal Botanic Gardens is spectacular. It’s also very popular – so popular in fact that we had to park a long way away from the gardens in St Kilda Road and walk a considerable […]
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Learning More of our History at Williamstown’s Seaworks Museum
During the week, I organised a day out to the historic area of Williamstown, across the bay from Melbourne’s CBD. We were welcomed warmly by a small group of enthusiastic volunteers who regaled us with stories about Williamstown and its place in Victoria’s maritime history. Melbourne was declared a city in 1835 and Williamstown was […]
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Election Day in Australia
I’m sitting in front of the television tonight watching the news reports on the results of our Australian national elections that were held today. The more I watch, the more it seems as though we are heading for a change of government. I actually voted a week ago as I wanted to attend the biennial […]
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