New camera, new house and a trip to the snow

Well it has been a while since the last post way back in March, thanks largely to a damp winter, weekend spent house hunting,no annual leave and the lack of a functioning camera. But we finally made the call to buy one and the removal of the cobwebs around the wallet must have started something as soon after we were successful with our offer on a unit in Heidelberg Heights. We purchased in the first weekend of September and have a 30 day settlement so we'll be moving in early October. Very exciting, especially having a full sized kitchen, a freezer and a spare room for people to stay. I'd put up a link to the new place but it probably won't last so if you are interested, do a search for 3/21-23 Bamfield Road, Heidelberg Heights.

We'll miss our little tree house which has been home for the last year. It was supposed to be a very temporary arrangement but we have been treated so well by our brilliant landlord Shelagh so it was always going to be hard to leave.

Airing the bedding at the sleep-out / tree house / cubby house, home for a year



A couple of weekends earlier than all the house stuff, we took a drive out to Warburton in the Yarra Valley for a walk in the bush. I'd read about a 'treetop walk' which sounded brilliant but was rather disappointing- consisting of a platform about 10m off the ground.





There was a lot of traffic going up the hill and signs about road closures due to snow but I was sceptical, not this low and not this close to Melbourne. Curious, we followed the traffic, up Mt Donna Buang and sure enough there was snow, and heaps of parents with young children and toboggans. It looked like great fun. I wasn't exactly appropriately dressed (the shorts caused a bit of a stir actually) so we had a wander round for half an hour and then headed down the hill to where it was a bit warmer.



After a walk around Warburton, we went over the hill to Healesville for lunch at the RACV club.

Sculpture outside RACV club, Healesville



Golf course at RACV club

Grand Final

A couple of snaps of Collingwood supporters before the first of 2 grand finals for the AFL. The first one was a tie so they had to come back the following weekend.

Magpie army on the way to the MCG



Fans parked outside - this van had a spit roaster in the back.