We have gone up in the world!

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Of course we brought our trees with us , we are still moving in to our hopefully forever holiday home in Port Melbourne. Sunnier , interesting shaped large lounge and sunny sheltered deck of a very useful size. Very close to Bay Street down the lift and along a passageway and voila ! There opposite French pastry shop, the shop that sells everything you didn’t know you needed, and the IGA supermarket amazing and around the corner to the amazingly good Indian Restaurant ..

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With my eyesight having deteriorated I am finding it frustrating not being able to appreciate line drawings in the same way . Th large oils are much easier to view and I absolutely love the play of hidden vistas, wallpaper and unique furniture do all is not lost !

Our relocated and repurposed woolshed at Mt Michael now further up the slope looking down to the sea

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Behind this new position is Mt Michael, to the left Mt Studholme and to the right Mt Cecil.

I would drive the musterers and dogs up to the top several times a year after cooking them an early breakfast of mutton chops sausages and eggs for a 4am breakfast . As we drove up Mt Studholme ‘Repeater Station’ narrow shingle road the must shrouding the mountain looked like white candy floss and you felt you could drive off onto it. Fortunately it was only a fleeting thought. The views from the top as the sun broke through were amazing .

Several hours later they would return the sheep mustered to the sheep yards and then come in for a few beers and huge roast meal before going back out for the draughting and drenching and sometimes it was the start of 4 days of shearing. Busy times .

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Furnishing of our extra home is all coming together , bright cushions , more oriental rugs , and art transported from NZ, plus of course the knitting makes it look more like home

After the Cyclone Gabrielle.

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Three horrible days of devastation throughout the country, now businesses are open again and the sun is shining for some. We really feel for those hard hit ,livelihoods lost , homes ruined, lives lost.

Last day for the lovely “rellies “ from the UK

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Starting to settle in , gradually accumulating to our taste !

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Princess in white did not miss out on festivities in spite of the dreaded COVID xxx

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Ellen’s graduation Wednesday, with father and lovely sister and mother was also in attendance, so proud.

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We are in the pointy end , fabulous views ….

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We have arrived after a little bit of stress finding the TT car return. With a little bit of creative driving down a no entry road we arrived, now 24 hrs in the Hotel then ✈️

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Went up Mont Ventoux after the Brocante at Malaucene the previous week. Wonderful as usual. 1909m