Posted on February 8, 2009 by christopbrooks
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 [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2009 by christopbrooks
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, [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2009 by christopbrooks
Posted on February 4, 2009 by christopbrooks
Posted on February 3, 2009 by christopbrooks
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 [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2009 by christopbrooks
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.)
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