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Drumroll -  Here is my big unveil for my A to Z challenge in April It is Wander Victoria with Little Wandering Wren! Now those Aussie's living locally might be thinking 'that sounds familiar' and you'd be right!  As without so much of a ' please, would you mind if. ...' our Victorian State Government have taken the bold, audacious move of launching a new advertising promotion designed at promoting the wonders of our State with the headline "Wander Victoria!" Cheeky or what?! I mean all they needed to do was to add the words 'Little' and ' Wren' and that's me! So if you can't beat them, join 'em, your Little Wren looks forward to taking you on her own little wander  around my adopted home state of Victoria, Australia. Whether it is the beach or the bush  I hope you'll join me for the journey! See you on Friday when it all kicks off. More information on the A-Z C...

Wordless Wednesday Photos taken at Bruno's Art & Sculpture Gardens, Marysville If you would like to know more information on Marysville you can read it here Linking with thanks to Sue At image-in-ing Wordless Wednesday with Mary Denman :

Feb 7th, 2009 is known as Black Saturday. It was the day of the worst bushfires in Australian history.  A day when 173 people lost their lives. In the small town of Marysville,  a wildfire took the lives of 34 people  and destroyed over 95% of the town's buildings. Marysville was one of five towns that completely burned down. Message to Marysville: Beauty from the Ashes quilt Six years on, I am standing admiring a beautiful quilt in the Marysville's Tourist Information Centre. The quilt has 131 patches donated to the community by people all over Australia to show they care and to encourage them in the long road to recovery.  Beauty from the Ashes Quilt Black Saturday was a day Victorians will never forget.  Our Melbourne day started normally. The kids were back to their first full week at school after the long summer holidays. We'd had an unprecedented hot spell, and because of the predicted extreme heat, school Saturday sport was can...

There is never a dull moment here! Last week was spent ducking and diving from:  * Flu  * Glandular Fever (mono) *  Ebola...   Here  is the post for those who missed all the excitement... We are now over the flu, recovering from Glandular Fever and a flight out of West Africa has been booked! Phew! I'm looking forward to this week ahead, I hear it is going to be just perfect! Shop board in Mansfield But before we head off to find the perfection I have to de-ice the windscreen. Now that's not something I get to do very often, even in the middle of a Melbourne winter. Here is the original of the black and white photo  I posted yesterday for Silent Sunday Ice on the windscreen in Melbourne, that's unusual! Yesterday I drove my friend and her now flu-free  daughter   back to her boarding school,  three hours drive out of Melbourne. After a terrible full-on winter week which include...