We are home!

As you are no doubt aware, Australia is in the thick of a terrible bushfire season.  The fires have been widespread and the damage done has been disastrous. Fortunately for me our little village, Metung, has been spared but the fires are by no means finished.  We live in East Gippsland and that is where…

The happiest refugee

Originally posted on Gippsland Granny:
I borrowed this book from the library.  I had read a great deal in the media about this book a few years ago but only now have I got round to borrowing it. Australia, at the moment is going through a period where petty politics is playing a large part…

An National event in Metung

On New Year’s morning when I went for my walk I took a different route to my usual.  The sun was coming up over Bancroft Bay and Metung was looking picturesque.  As I approached the marina there were new signs on the road. As I got closer to the Yacht Club there were indications that…

My first visit

We have lived in Gippsland for eight years and I am ashamed to say I have not visited the art gallery in Bairnsdale.  The Gallery is the East Gippsland Gallery and is housed in an 1868 building next to the Court House. I was prompted to visit after another member at the gym told me…

Bairnsdale beetroot, not really.

I have been informed that the post I did last week about the baby beetroot from Bairnsdale is incorrect.  Yes the beetroot is processed in Bairnsdale at Vegco but apparently the crop is actually from Cowra, not local after all. Thank you Emma Field, a Gippsland reporter for the Weekly Times, for giving me the…

Get back on your bike!

I have recently had issues with mobility of a knee followed by issues with an ankle.  I jiggered my knee somehow, now quite sure how, and it took quite some time for it to get right again.  A couple of weeks later I then stepped in a small hole in the asphalt in a carpark…