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...