The wedding and the fires

So Trav and Cara’s wedding went really well on Saturday. Extremely hot day. It was Melbourne’s hottest day on record, and it got up to at least 43°C in Ballarat. Very hot at the church, even hotter at the Botanical Gardens for wedding party photos, much nice at the racecourse in Miners Rest. I managed [...]

Lost shoes

This morning I’m going to Ballarat. Trav and Cara’s wedding is tomorrow. But the first thing I have to do when I get there is see if I can find my shoes. On Sunday I went for a walk along the railway line in Ballarat, taking pictures. I had my shoes in a shopping bag, [...]

Twigs

Next to Central Square in Ballarat.

Portal

Behind Coles, in Ballarat.

Fire damage

On Sunday morning, before I caught the train back from Ballarat, I decided to go and have a look at my old house, the last one I lived in before I moved to Melbourne. Turns out it’s for sale at the moment.

I also walked past a series of old boarded-up houses. (A lot of the [...]

Trav’s bucks night

Trav and Cara are getting married on Saturday, so yesterday in Ballarat we had Trav’s bucks night.
First, we gave Trav a cooking challenge. He had to cook vegetables. (Trav doesn’t like his vegetables.) And we only gave him one bit of the recipe at a time, and only after correctly answering a trivia question.

Free public transport today!

There is free public transport in Victoria today, because the trains have been so stuffed up by the heat. So I’m going to see if I can go up to Ballarat tonight, instead of tomorrow morning. (Trav’s bucks party is tomorrow.)

‘Trav and Christop talk drugs’

There was recently a rave at Kryal Castle (just out of Ballarat) where fifteen people ended up in hospital because they used to much methamphetamine. Trav wrote about this on his blog because one of his friends used illicit drugs at the rave, and he was pretty upset about it:
Everyone who took drugs decided to [...]

Club lockout for Melbourne CBD?

Have just been reading in The Age about plans for a lockout for clubs in Melbourne’s CBD (‘Hoon “lockout” plan for clubs’). It would mean that after a certain time, people wouldn’t be able to go into a club. That would hopefully mean that there’ll be less drunk people out on the street, because they [...]

‘Housing pressure bites poor’

Article from today’s Age:
A GROWING number of low-income Australians are enduring living standards typical of the Third World — with many forgoing basic necessities including food and health care — in order to meet the increasing cost of rents and mortgages.
Read the rest here.
Until I moved back to Melbourne in 2005 I experienced a lot [...]