Daylight Savings Lucky the Victorians save daylight in summer or it would be dark until lunchtime! It's 10 past 8 and it feels like 6:30 QLD time!

SCIENCEWORKS "Cracking job Grommit!" Scienceworks in Williamstown is a great place to get lost for the day. Today we experimented, discovered & unlocked the many secrets of everyday science. Chemistry, "Fizzics" & great inventions in a display by Wallace & Grommit. Gadgets & gizmos to get the creative cogs of the ol' grey matter clanking again! We even discovered the reason for Melbourne's cold weather as a great little show exploded acros...

THINGS THAT GO BUMP! Why is it that things always happen on holidays? We stopped to feed the swans by the lake on the way home & even before we got out of the car there were 5 or 6 enormous black, fat breasted birds vying for poll position. Their beady red eyes on serpent necks inquisitively checking our hands & pockets. Darcy took one look and bolted. I guess a bird that stands at eye level can be quite intimidating! Seisia & I quickly tore up slice...

Chocolate fix! Sleeping in is a mothers guilty pleasure. This morning we slept in & lounged around until mid morning. And after the busy term we've had it was just heaven! Following such a hectic morning we all agreed we needed to treat ourselves with an outing to the Chocolate Lounge! Milk hot chocolates with gooey melted chocolate smothering the bottom & sides of the cup, waffles with strawberries & ice-cream and some choc dipped strawberries and w...

The trees are different here. More stunted and twisted but very Australian looking. I guess it is the extremes of weather from searing heat in summer to the bracing chill blown in from the Southern Ocean that makes them hardy. And the houses we drove by are different too. Low set, red brick with a sparse but hardy garden, mostly of lawn, with a low brick fence & letterbox. That was until we drove into Sanctuary Lakes where our dear friends live, complete wit...