Jill and Gerard's Seachange

Would you look at that!!!!

Well on my way home last night after our big day in Bairnsdale and dropping mum home, I was rounding the bend approaching the two spare blocks on my right and McMillan drive on my left and I saw something moving on the road!!!!!! Oh boy it was a young ECHIDNA crossing the road!!! I stopped in the middle of the road to let it cross and was so rapt to see one in the area here. It climbed up onto the nature strip and walked up the pathway at one of the units there on the left!!!! It must be living somewhere near the vacant land that was once the old country club hotel!!!! So pleased to see one here as the one that lived down our end has not been sighted now for two years!!! It is such a shame....

Might have to put up a sign on the road to caution drivers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAUTION....ECHIDNA...CROSSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night I went to bed at midnight again and while lying in bed I had the full moon shining in my face through the blinds, what a way to drift off to sleep!!!! All that strong wind we had, had blown the clouds away at long last.

This morning was so different to yesterday morning, we have bright sunshine a little breeze and the water has an amazing glint to it.

I have had my walk to the hill with Millie in tow, it was as exhiliarating as ever, it is like you are in your own world, especially on top of the hill overlooking the canal and the lakes. It is a wonderful way to start the day!!!!! I have put in a picture of the hill so you can see how steep it is, not too steep but it is enough for me at the moment!!! I will have to go back later in the day as I did not make it there yesterday!!

Have found the most beautiful bullrushes growing in the wet bog where the frogs are living at the foot of the hill, so far they are surviving the area which got cut in half by the developers. They just don't get it!!!

What do I see and hear from my "office" chair????? The water looks like crystals shimmering away, it is just lovely. No birds at the moment, we have had our usual visit from the little fairy wrens twittering and flitting about and having their usual bath in the bird bath. There are still two males, so bright blue and their flock of females with them. They are gorgeous to see in their own little world. They come around each morning now and evening.

There is only the slightest of breeze here, the tall grasses are cream in colour across from the grassy area on the side here with heaps of seeds in them ready to burst out and plant some more. It is a worry with snakes over there, getting too overgrown. A pigeon/dove is calling out and hey there are a pair of swallows darting around. A lone white butterfly is darting about in the bushes as a couple of maggies swooop by.

Oh here come some dutch or german people I am not sure chatting away in their language, they look like tourists!!!!! He has his video camera over his shoulder!!!

Gerard has just told me it is expected to be 41degreesCel. on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In Melbourne that is, so it will be hot here too.... I know where I will be that day!!! Shut away in the palace with the air conditioner on, thank goodness I have it in there for working in. Such a wonderful thing to keep cool. Hate it too hot and that is hot... Would melt all the snow very quickly over there in England!!!!

The pigeon has someone answering its calls now from one side of the house over to the other!!!! Wonder what they say???? """""are you there?????'''''''''''''''' """""i am here""""" Maybe who knows, the imagination could go wild... but will stop listening to them....


Goodness do I prattle on??????????????

Any way I will post these pics now and leave you to it for the day. Want to get into the palace to look for some teapot stamps as my first book here for the swap is themed teapots!!!! I know I have a couple somewhere in those many blue drawers. Will take a while to go through them though.

o.k. talk again soon

posted by Jill @ 9:21 am