Little Wandering Wren …. chats!

I'm rather pleased with our Christmas this year! Thanks to our friends Down Under and the warm weather. I salute you all! Of course that's an "Aussie salute" to also shoo the flies away. Melbourne is experiencing a weird summer with a fly plague. We've just had the warmest Christmas in eighteen years followed by flash flooding in Melbourne. Here are a few of my favourite pictures from our Christmas  at the beach on the Mornington Peninsula: Antlers with a beachy twist was the theme! We do have the nicest friends, who knowing we were overseas until just before Christmas,  fill up our fridge with all sorts of wonderful goodies, make a girdle buster ice cream pudding, and arrive bringing with them the turducken; turkey, with duck and chicken, cooked to perfection on their barbecue.  On account of it being bleedin' hot, I instigated a  TOB - Total Oven Ban.  So salads were mostly the order of the day.  Which caused a few prob...

Happy Birthday and many happy returns comments of the day, to Sally and the Blue Monday gang on your fifth birthday today - whoo hoo .   It is my blogging birthday on Wednesday and I thank you seasoned fellow bloggers for being so welcoming last week, and for making me feel, at one year old, so young this week!! I had a week visiting many of the blogs which I really enjoyed, and thank to those who left a comment here. I especially enjoyed the last of the gorgeous August summer days around the world, in particular those involving boats and water. I'm a Pisces who loves the water as long as I'm not the one getting wet! We have our long Aussie summer ahead to enjoy so I thought I'd take you to the beach this week - yippee! We were heading off to the Mornington Peninsula, an hour out of Melbourne, supposedly for some spring cleaning at our beach house... but I'll let you into a little secret, the weather was so lovely this (above) was as close as I got to ...