We were up early to tackle with the rest of the Melbourian commuters, the traffic into the centre of the city. Plans for today involved Fraser assisting his parents through the Aged Care Assessment Team interview which would take approximately three hours. This is to get his parents assessed as to what physical, emotional and … More Busy, Busy Bees – 29th January 2019

Very little to report except that both of us fell into bed after six hours of heavy scrubbing around at Belinda’s apartment. We discovered on further inspection that neither of the bathrooms have been cleaned in two years and neither had the kitchen. To say it was nauseating to clean these rooms would be understating … More Bugger of a Day – 28th January 2019

Our girl turns seven today. She’s off for a haircut and isn’t particularly impressed with the agenda. We had a late start in the end as the breakfast we were going to have with Shelley and Sam whose flat we looked after for three weeks in Elwood, phoned to cancel as they have the “roach … More Toque Monsters Birthday – 27th January 2019

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip. The indigenous people refer … More Australia Day and Family Reconnections – 26th January 2019

Birthday Boy Fraser who turned 85, oops, meant 58 – his dyslexia creeping in there – didn’t quite have as a relaxing day as he was hoping. He was made to put on his new birthday clothes consisting of his new biking top, Carlton footy socks and his lobster pyjamas from Christmas for his traditional … More Birthday Boy – 25th January 2019

So nearly three days have gone since the last lot of blogging but you kind of need something to write about. We spent the previous two days hanging around the apartment at Henty putting the final touches on Frasers fathers bedroom and sorting through some of his myriad of stationary. Yesterday was house moving day … More Catch Up – 22nd to 24th January 2019

Alas, our three week house sitting sojourn at Shelley and Sams comes to an end today. We needed to put Humpty back together after making ourselves super comfortable in their Elwood apartment. Not too sure if Henry will be that unpleased to see us go as we did have irregular hours. We split form for … More Moving House – 21st January 2019

The day started off well with a call from Paul saying he was pretty sure he had left his man bag in the Immigration Museum. Fraser had already gone down to Henty House as he was awaiting delivery of all the IKEA furniture that he had ordered for his fathers bedroom make over. The flat … More Good News and Assembly Day – 20th January 2019

Today commenced with about an eight kilometre bike ride from Elwood to Brighton Beach along the foreshore and back. Gail and Paul met us at our place on their bikes which were provided by the AirBnB that they had booked in, down the road from us. It was a cool morning at 21c which made … More Bikes and Immigration- 19th January 2019

Woke up after 8+ hours of sleep to very tired and heavy bodies. Putting one foot in front of the other after yesterday was challenging. We had a date to pick up Paul and Gail from their accomodation in the city at 11.00am and only just made it. Mike and Cheryl had to be out … More Calm after the Storm – 18th January 2019