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  The final Christmas Tree Hunt - Equally fabulous. Saturday 9th December.
     
  Christmas Lights at Hallet Cove - The Space Station have complained that they have to wear sunglasses each time they pass over.
     
 

Christmas Tree selection that happens each year with Peter, Cherise and Anna (and families)

Wednesday 6th December and Saturday 9th - Two trips, but 'fabulous' ones.
     
  Pouring cats and dogs, Thursday 16th November as we added flowers to family graves and upgraded a couple of them as well.
     
 

Tram Restaurant - William Rickets Sanctuary - Bird Feeding Olinda - Puffing Billy

Then the Melbourne Cricket Grand and Town Hall tours followed by "Gold Class" spoiling at Hoyts in he city to view "Murder on the Orient Express"

Tomorrow Ballarat over night and working on the two "Bowers" grave sites there.
     
  Sunday 12th November - Church at the cathedral then on the tram to St Kilda for the sunday market. Then back on the tram to the Shrine of Rememberence. A little down time before heading to the docklands for dinner with the Steggalls. - Tomorrow the "Tram Restaurant for lunch and the Myer Christmas windows"
     
 

Attending today (Fri 10th Nov, 2017) to the grave of George D Bowers, Born March 26th 1912 in Newport and died 9 months later on January 14th 1913. Buried at Williamstown Cemetery
{W} Church of England, W1-CE-B-45-4

I wonder how many times this grave would have been visited over the past 104 years.

Burial number 858474
     
  Slumming in in Melbourne for the next 6 nights after travelling via Colac to visit on old Cebs Leader (John Featherstone 91 years) now in a nursing home there. On the ball mentally as he ever was. Then onto Werribee to visit the accountant and spend a couple of nights with Sam and Cathy Addamo before they head off to Bacchus Marsh area to live. Then to Melbourne via Williamstown to update the first of the grave sites that have been left in disrepair for some considerable decades. (The rest will be in Ballarat)
     
  Vietnam and Cambodia Tour in October. Here some photos of the Vespa Bike Tour of Saigon.
     
  Heavy rains and the damage it caused. The reality of having a sloped driveway. Very wet carpets etc.
     
  Cornish Festival at Moonta in May. Great week away in the van.
     
  Arrival of the new caravan and the excitement of giving it a test run.
     
Two weeks at the beach after Easter is ideal for the twins.   Click here to view the movie. In the words of Ilish and Emily "Their caravan"
     
  Christmas 2016 and the joys of a 'mini' pool and lots of pressies.
 
  One extra re Christmas 2016 that just had to be included.