Little Wandering Wren …. chats!

[Hello! You’ve found yourself at Day 6 of my April A to Z Challenge and you’ve joined a virtual bus tour of regional Victoria, Australia.   My name is Wren and I live in Melbourne. During April, my husband and the kids are having to find their own dinner, whilst my Crazy Poodle and I, have an inordinate amount of fun showing you around.  We are happy you can join as we get to know each other and explore the fabulous, fun, friendly, fantastic Victoria, for armchair travel at its best!] Ferntree Gully - I wonder how that name came about? Welcome back. Thank you for being such sports on 'D' Tuesday, squeezing into that Mini car. I love that I can throw anything at you and you’ll just rise to the challenge! In honour of Mary-Anne, Cynthia and Jeanie being so amenable to ride in the "boot", I'm going to suggest they get promoted to the front rows of this little bus which I found for the ride today!  All aboard, I've found you a bus! N...

The 1000 steps is a challenging walk in the Dandenong Ranges National Park. It is a thirty minute drive from Melbourne's South Eastern suburbs. It's only for those who are reasonably fit, or happy to have their heart pounding very fast! Even the walk from the car park to the first step  is at such a steep incline  that us novice climbers wonder  whether this is really such a good idea?! Luckily there is much to stop and look at,  which gives us time to draw breath! The Kokoda Memorial Trail follows a creek uphill,  and as you climb you start to experience some of the feeling of  exhaustion  felt by the Australian soldiers  on the Kokoda Trail in  Papua New Guinea in World War 11. Before you leave the car park you can stop at the memorial which  has plaques containing names of the soldiers who fought and died on the trail during the kokoda campaign in 1942. Four posts with the words Courag...

Today we're off to the 1000 Steps as punishment for a life of excess!   Every Monday morning I meet with my 25++ friends  for our Monday motivational hour. The Twenty-Five ++ group was formed back in September last year with the target to lose twenty-five kilos between us. We're well over this, and should really be renamed as the 50++ Group, but sensitive to the fact that this may be misconstrued as our ages, we are reluctant to change! We took our scales with us for our weekly weigh-in, but ran into a problem as the car park is on quite a slope and was not giving us accurate readings! It was actually seriously under reading, which some of we didn't really see as too great a problem but... in the spirit of accuracy and consistency  we found a solution,  well sort of... The only completely flat area was on top of a picnic table. Of course as intelligent Women   none of us would be dumb enough to weigh...