Murrumbidgee Walk

Bill and I commenced our training for our walking holiday in New Zealand next month when we walk the Queen Charlotte Track. We walked into Tuggeranong via Pt Hut along the Murrumbidgee to Pine Island. It was a lovely walk, lots of water in the river and the sound of the river rushing by. We then headed into Tuggeranong and had a rest at a coffee shop- that hot chocolate sure tasted good! We then walked back to Gordon via the back of Bonython, where there were some lovely views of the Brindabella's- a 16km walk in total! A pleasant way to spend the morning.

Sunflowers

We planted some sunflowers in our garden this year and they are looking good! We always thought they followed the sun and wondered why ours didn't. Lachlan did some research and found out it is only while they are young and still growing, after a certain stage the stop doing it! There is your fact for the day!

The Lindt Cafe

One of the more onerous tasks Amy and I had to do was to take Grandma to the Lindt Cafe at Chadstone Shopping Centre. Chadstone is a huge shopping centre, so we recruited Arlene, my sister in law, and Natalie, my niece to help with the task. I think we did a pretty good job of pretending we were enjoying ourselves!

More Party and Family

We all had a great time. Grandma was up to her usual tricks of exaggerating things- I think her motto should be- "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!" Gary was resplendent in his pink shirt, Matthew was just out to party and had a great time playing with Thomas on Uncle Michael's Ipad, and we all enjoyed each others company!

Birthday Party

Kelly and Joshua were having a birthday a few days apart so we got together and had pizza, salad and birthday cakes. Matthew who is 3 had a great time handing out presents and helping everyone unwrap their presents- he had a ball. Had even more fun blowing out the candles!

Memories of Berwick

Our parents were forever running us into Berwick- the big town 3 miles down the hill, so eventually we moved into Berwick, which was a village like town 26 miles or 42km out of Melbourne. In those days there were cow paddocks and market gardens in between the other towns on the way out to Berwick. Now it has all been carved up for housing and it is one of the fastest growing corridors in Melbourne. Berwick has still managed to retain it's village like atmosphere.

Memories!

Amy and I just spent days down in Melbourne catching up with family and friends and had a great time. I grew up in Adelaide and moved to Melbourne for my teenage and young adult years. When we first moved to Melbourne we lived in Harkaway, a little village on the outskirts of Melbourne. It had a two teacher school, a general store and a hall- that was about it. We lived in a two storey house and had to catch the bus to high school. While we were down I got some photos of the house we lived in and the other buildings.

I only went to the two teacher school for 6 weeks before Year 6 ended and then it was off to high school. We used to get milk at recess, but sometimes the magpies had landed on the milk crates and pecked the bottle tops off!

We used to walk down to the general store to get the mail, and we loved to buy lollies- aniseed balls- 4 for a cent and bananas and yellow bears 2 for a cent were my favourites!

We used to go to dances at the Harkaway Hall and they had the greatest suppers!