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Anyone else getting into The Amazing Race?  I’m going for Charla and Myrna then Eric and Danielle and then the Beauty Queens. I can’t help liking Charla and Myrna even though others I know don’t.  I liked Danny and Oswald too - I’ve only really gotten into this series in the last few weeks.

Apparently there was flooding today in Gippsland - when it rains, it pours! Earlier in the year it was the drought and now this. It was horrible in Melbourne today with wind coming from every direction, rainy and cold. My umbrella blew inside out a couple of times and I didn’t venture far at lunch time.

The fig trees in the garden are now clothes-less skeletons - so different to a few months ago when they were full of figs and green foliage.  I didn’t realise they are deciduous. Read more »

Saw a different part of Melbourne the other weekend when I went to my friend’s hen’s party and wedding at Werribee. It is west of Melbourne and took me about 50mins by train.

The hen’s party was at my friend’s house at Werribee South which is near the bay but very few people live there. In the cab, I passed market gardens, fields of green vegetables. Quite amazing - so close to Melbourne. There is a small patch of new houses where my friend lives - I can understand why they like living there. They have a market garden to look out onto and the ocean not very far away! It’s a totally different world. They built the house themselves so it is quite modern. Read more »