My last few days have been spent knee deep in tomatoes: on Saturday morning we went round to the next door neighbour's for morning tea where we found their tomato vines overladen with tomatoes. It hasn't been a great year for tomatoes here in Oz so we were surprised to see so many and even more surprised that our neighbour was going to let them rot as he had already had his fill! He told us to take as many as we wanted, so my Godmother's filled a whole basketfu...

Unfortunately the last blog I wrote a few days ago did not save as a draft when my internet went down, thus losing all I had written to accompany the album 'These Sandals Are Made For Walking'. Along with this I have been so busy that I have not had a chance to write a blog for the events that have taken place this week. So now I will summarise each of the last few days before I forget everything that has happened completely. Tuesday 19th March: On Tuesday I vi...

This weekend has flown by! Saturday morning My Godmother and I carried on our garlic hunt in St Andrews at a Farmer's market, except there were more 'alternative people' than farmers...we walked round each stall looking for garlic and lo and behold before long we found Ron (known by many as weird Ron). He gave us some positives and negatives (more negatives than positives) and sent us on our way with some useful tips. We headed on down to another veggie stall but...

Myki card in hand, I caught the 10:54 metro train on the Hurstbridge line into the city. I arrived at Flinder's street station a little unsure of the way to the visitor centre in Federation Square, and what do you do when you don't know where to go? Follow everybody else! Well I got out onto the street expecting to see the glass building my Godmother had told me housed the visitor information, only to find opaque buildings that were definitely not what I was look...

After much organisation into Melbourne's public transport system last night, my family and I worked out how I would be able to travel from my Godmother's house to theirs for the afternoon. Unfortunately Melbourne's PT system is based on the assumption that everyone wants to travel into or out of the city rather than between the suburbs. So it was going to get pretty complicated using buses and trains and more buses and trains to go to a house 40 mins away! The sy...