Sunday outing.

One of the first things we did was see Michael perform professionally. Although we have heard a lot of his singing and music over the years and are always proud as punch when we listen to the CD of 'The Smitten' actually hearing him in front of an audience was new.

It was a very hot Sunday afternoon in Melbourne with friends for us to meet and sitting outside a pub is always a good feeling (as long as it's open that is)

He was great playing lots of my favourites. Brooke acts as roadie keeping him well hydrated with iced water and the occasional coke a cola.


That was just the first of our musical jaunts, with three more solo gigs with Michael culminating with seeing him play with 'The Smitten'. I had to pay as they don't have a free list but I did get to have my arm 'stamped' with a pass out of my choice. I chose to have a kangaroo drawn in felt tip on the inside of my wrist.

Where did you go Grannie.?

Well seeing as you asked. We (me and him) have been to Australia, Melbourne for the main but with side trips to New Zealand, Tasmania and Airlie Beach, which is in Queensland.

We visited with our son and daughter-in-law who live in Melbourne.

I love to travel so 24 hours on a plane trip seems like fun. The reality is not quite so much fun but still it gets the job done. We travelled with Emirates and they look after you well, food is good and wine is free, they also have a good range of films to watch (usually) we missed my favourites Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean as they had just changed the schedule's.

One of the things about Australia is extremes , the weather is extreme and on the day we landed Melbourne had the hottest day in it's history and along with that one of the greatest disasters in Victoria.

They now call it 'Black Saturday' bush fires swept though towns and left about 200 people dead.

Every where we went there were collection buckets for the homeless and those bereaved. It makes you feel a bit odd having a holiday when all around you people are suffering. I went to church and said prayers and every time we were given the option our change went in one of the buckets.

I hope it helped someone.

Here we go!

Well here I go blogging for the first time. seems ok so far. Should have started this a couple of months ago before we went on our 'big trip' so might do some backdated stuff to help me remember the great time we had.