It turned out that Jason did not need to work so today we were able to catch a bit of a lie in and off to see 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1'. Jason met me at the bottom of Spencer Street. As Vanessa is not a fan of Harry Potter…...I guess there has to be one……she did not come with us. We walked to the Casino as it has a decent big screen and cheap Tuesday tickets. Needless to say I loved the movie. I am a fan and really am glad they have deci...

A bit of a sleep in this morning then up and off to find a camera. Well buy a camera really. My last digital snap shot aged gracefully and died a few months ago. Jason & Vanessa were picking me up at 11am from the McDonald's under the freeway south of the casino. We were off to the Zoo for the morning and back in time for Jason to go to work and me to meet Kim, Oliver, Colin and Marnie for dinner. Service industry in Melbourne appears to be dying the slow ...

This is day three in Melbourne and I am having a ball. Jason and Vanessa have been the coolest tour guides and cheese and pickle sandwich makers. But I jump ahead a bit. I had to get up at sparrow's fart to catch my flight from Canberra to Melbourne. A 6am Red Eye was part of the cheap deal. But it is really quick to drive across Canberra at that time. At the airport a lot of the passengers were there before the check in staff. Note for next time, the counter do...

From lunch it was out to Chadstone shopping mall to the Lindt Café. An essential for chocoholics like us three, and worth every morsel of succulent hot melted chocolate. The hot chocolate is served in a separate little jug and the hot milk in its own jug. The idea being to make your drink to your own liking. The temptation to just pour the jug of chocolate straight down ones throat is there, but decorum allows that mixing it with a token amount of milk in the cu...

Well the weather in Canberra is finally warming up. So perhaps I will get a spring before my next winter, but potentially have no summer. But I am not here today to discuss the weather. Yesterday I joined the mass of blue rinse, Zimmer Frame wheedling 'dears' heading for Floriade. This is Canberra's Spring Flower show. Not quite Chelsea, but lots of garden beds that are supposed to look like something. But I shall get to that in a minute. My main reason for goi...