We left Eden and drive onto to Marlo, a little town situated at the estuary of the Snowy River. We were only here for one night to break the otherwise long drive to Paynesville. The main accomodation here is the Marlo Hotel which is a typical Aussie pub full of very Aussie blokes. However, the room we booked was lovely, with a large bathroom and separate sitting room. We had our own verandah and resident magpie. The southern coast of Victoria called Gippsla...

Have been watching the second week of tennis at home as all tickets for the big matches have been sold. The weather in Melbourne for the past week has been unseasonably cool, around 20 -23c, so different to last year, but infinitely better than experiencing this years English winter. Yesterday, Tom's friend, Laura, spent the day with us and we hired a car for a trip to the wineries of the Yarra Valley. Laura lives in Sydney ( David and I stayed with her last y...

19/1 first day of the Aussie Open and we had tickets for the Rod Laver Arena. We watched Federer win (of course)his first round match followed by Sharapova win hers. 20/1 I returned to the tennis today with a ground ticket but saw some good matches on the show and outside courts. Settled down in a good seat to watch British number 2, James Ward, in his first round match but gave him up to find a better contest as he lost dismally! Hey ho. Had also started watc...

Back in Melbourne after spending Christmas in Wangarratta. I came back with Tom and Sarah on Boxing Day leaving David there for a few more days. I Went to the sales on 27th but didn't buy anything! That's a first. David returned and he went to the 5th day of the third test at MCG while I visited the tennis centre to see about buying tickets for the open which starts on 19th Jan. Managed to get 2 seats for evening session on the first day in the Rod Laver arena....

Christmas Eve - Tom, Sarah, their friend Alessandro (Ale), and I drove up to Wang to spend our Christmas with Mat and Kristy's family. David went up with Mat 2 days earlier so that they could go fishing. As last year, we stayed with Al, their father, while Kristy, Colin and Colin's parents stayed with Liz, their mother. Mat cooked the majority of the food, both at his dad's on Christmas Eve and Christmas lunch at his mum's. After lunch we went back to Al's to ...