Little Wandering Wren …. chats!

'We're a happy team at Hawthorn We're the mighty fighting Hawks We love our team and we play to win...' There is no better place than with 100,000 footy fans at the  Melbourne Cricket Ground on Grand Final Day. This photo was taken by Mr Wren & Daughter No 1 I was at home watching it on the telly with the Crazy Poodle! Linking with thanks to Darren at OneDad3girls.com

You either get the place or you don't... Love it, or hate it, it's always great to be back in Honkers.  It's eight years since we left, yet I still get the 'bright lights' frisson of excitement, t he moment I get off the plane. It's when you feel that wall of humidity  hit, your hair gives you the real meaning of frizz-on, and that 'Fragrant Harbour' smell starts the assaults  on your senses.  Victoria Harbour Hong Kong Sept 2015 And you yell out in fine voice 'Honey, I'm Home! '  and the polite crowd of Hong Kong Chinese around you,  smile awkwardly and continue playing on their I phones.  'Oops, sorry, pardon me for my over-exuberance!' Apple Store - Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon Two minutes in the Hotel check-in line, becomes two hours  and all because you are handed your room key for two  and told breakfast is for one.  You ask whether you can have breakfast for two  but your na...

Dear Blog... I'm sorry I've not been paying you much attention, I've been busy!  I've thrown out my soy decaf cappuccino days  and life of computing,  for a double espresso and life of commuting. Thank you for all your letters of concern regarding my work induced chick pea rash . It's clearing up nicely thank you! It's a bloomin' good job that my return to Australia last month saw me like some Whirling Dervish domestic goddess It's not like that now, and again we've run out of milk! Those first few weeks back from trialling Mr Wren's retirement plan  of enjoying European summers,  I called it market research,  he calls it   ' swanning off round the world', w ere flat out! If you look carefully you can see our blue Metro trains! Everything that could be fixed and mended was,  even the  dog, who to be fair, did have an ear infection!  He carries on like such a pork chop when...

Spring is in the air This weekend we took a trip to the Mornington Peninsula Gotta love the beaches there before the summer crowds arrive Just us and the waves... Linking with My Sunday Photo

'Everybody's looking for a new horizon  Everybody wants to leave the world behind them' Delta Goodrem Wings Footscray street art I’ve been running on adrenalin, limited sleep, and a load of beautiful Ethiopian coffee from the Addis coffee shop, next to our Centre. I’ve got a rash, itchy like a million mossie bites across my body. It’s some allergic reaction. I’ve been overdosing on chick peas and ha, I wonder if that’s the cause?!  We get free lunches and dinners at work, a bunch of amazing volunteers collect donated food from around Melbourne and cook up a feast. On Wednesday nights when we work till 8pm, our Members cook for everyone. Our Members are Asylum Seekers.  I’ve been eating a lot of chick peas! I’ve been doing a lot of work :) 'Everybody's looking for a new horizon Everybody's looking for a second chance'  I now work in the not-for-profit sector. After years of working in a corporate environment, an...

'We three Kings Queens of Orient are Bearing gifts we travel afar...' Linking with thanks to the following:

... and we're practically cooking on gas! Spring is such a tease this year. After we've shivered through the coldest Melbourne winter  in twenty-six years,  we're looking forward to welcoming her. She's proving a tad elusive. Yarra River, Studley Park, Melbourne   One minute the sun cautiously peeps out,  and we take the opportunity to warm our backs walking along the Yarra river,  in glorious sunshine. The next we are rushing home to warm our toes in front of the gas fire! Our g arden shrubs bless 'em, used to Melbourne's infamous 'four seasons in a day' climate,   bloom full of hope.    Spring flowers too,  ignoring our yo-yo temperatures, burst forth with a bright  ta-ra!   However, it is perhaps the Aussie natives which have the biggest crescendo.  Awakening  from their winter rest, a symphony of yellow wattle seen here at the Yarra's edge, creating it's own joyous...