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Oh my golly gosh there is so much going on around here. I'm sorry I've not been around much except on my @LWWren Instagram.  I hope you've got time for a cuppa and I'll fill you in! Big news!  We've had our first day of warm, sunny weather. It is an absolutely glorious weekend for  the first start of  Melbourne Cup's Spring Racing Carnival. Phew, it's rather a relief as we wondered whether we were going to be stuck in Winter forever. Melbourne is looking lovely. Never better in fact. All that rain has left our parks and gardens looking unusually lush and green.  Oh Melbourne, you're making it tough to leave... It's been fabulous to take in a lungful of that Aussie fresh air and to ponder what's ahead. Next big news:   I've finished work!  I have for the past few months been in a temporary role with  Australia's largest provider of aid for people seeking asylum. I leave with very mixed feelings. ...

Hello Dear Blog I'm not ignoring you There are some big changes going on around here and life is crazy busy... I wonder if you can work out what it might be?

It's a big weekend here in Melbourne It's our Australian Football League Grand Final weekend. Melbourne Visitors Centre - Flinders Street Now our team Hawks (Hawthorn FC) were knocked out in a preliminary final  by everyone's second favourite team the Western Bulldogs  known locally as the Doggies! Footscray Bulldogs Street Art The Dogs have not made a Grand Final for fifty-five years. Their opposition the Sydney Swans are no strangers to a Grand Final  making for a fantastic Melbourne-Sydney tension. We love that rivalry! If ever there was the time to use the expression the underdogs,  it's this weekend. Go the Doggies! The Western Bulldogs herald from Footscray where I work It is such a great week to see the place decked in red, white and blue. We have had overseas visitors this weekend and after a hectic week of travel ourselves, we are all happy for Melbourne's  public holiday yesterday to celebrate Grand Final Eve....

Yoga on the Helipad! We've just had an amazing weekend with dear friends in Thailand. We stayed at The Peninsula, Bangkok Which is a bit of a splurge, but they look after Little old Wren rather well  and we end up in the most amazing Grand Deluxe Suite Thank you Peninsula, Bangkok. The Peninsula, Bangkok It really is an extraordinary place to stay and when I saw that they offered complimentary yoga on helipad Well I'm there with a big fat Namaste! We meet at the Fitness Centre,  whooping 36 floors below a mixed ability group  of those who look like they know what they are doing,  to destination yogics! Destination on top of the world!   We sign a massive disclaimer. This probably says - does anyone actually read these forms - that if we pop our clogs on the helipad it's not their fault. Oh, but what a way to go. Either that, or don't expect a complimentary air ambulance  to rush you to the nearest hosp...

I'm off on my travels again this week Hope you will join me Wren x Linking with My Sunday Photo Thanks to Darren at Photolife

It wasn't the best lead up to my first ever blogging conference... Unprepared, overworked and knowing no-one,  I rocked up Thursday evening to survey the scene  at the RACV Royal Pines resort  full of nervous trepidation. Whilst experienced bloggers packed their conference essentials:  cameras, computers and copious amounts of sparkling talent.  I travelled light.  Just little old me @blogspot.com Except that, I came with 20 kilos of addition baggage just in case, AND   two non-blogging friends,  happy to be my roomies  for a  girls Gold Coast weekend away.  There was always that thought that I could always join them if required... Not that I needed a blogging bolthole as it turned out, happily  we all survived. Me with a big grin.  My girlfriends got a much-needed break  and  I made some great new connections in the Aussie blogging world. Woo Hoo! A billboard advertising the Australian...

Hello! Happy Sunday, today I’m in Queensland for the Problogger Conference. Problogger is my first ever opportunity to meet other Aussie bloggers on a mass scale - there are over 500 of us gathered for two days of networking, training and workshops. It gives me scope to reflect on my Little Wandering Wren journey and plan my future blog strategy. I learnt many things over the weekend but one thing resonated with me most a quote from the Problogger founder Darren’s Mum which said  Your life will be better of you take actions  on the things, you like to avoid I have been pondering for a while certain aspects of my:  “Crazy soccer mum, trying to become Zen yoga mum” life. The first being how appropriate is it to refer to myself as a Crazy Soccer Mum when my youngest is twenty years old ... and the soccer season is over! Perhaps there’s a small element (ok a massive, whopping element) of hanging onto a past identity, uncertain what to replace it ...