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I’m rather pleased with our Christmas this year!<\/span><\/div>\n
Thanks to our friends Down Under and the warm weather.<\/span><\/div>\n
I salute you all!<\/span><\/div>\n

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Of course that’s an “Aussie salute” to also shoo the flies away.<\/span><\/div>\n
Melbourne is experiencing a weird summer with a fly plague.<\/span><\/div>\n
We’ve just had the warmest Christmas in eighteen years<\/span><\/div>\n
followed by flash flooding in Melbourne.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Here are a few of my favourite pictures from our Christmas <\/span>
at the beach on the Mornington Peninsula:<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Antlers with a beachy twist was the theme!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
We do have the nicest friends, who knowing we were overseas until just before Christmas, <\/span>fill up our fridge with all sorts of wonderful goodies, make a girdle buster ice cream pudding, and arrive bringing with them the turducken; turkey, with duck and chicken, cooked to perfection on their barbecue. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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On account of it being bleedin’ hot, I instigated a <\/span>
TOB – Total Oven Ban. <\/b><\/span>
So salads were mostly the order of the day. <\/span>
Which caused a few problems with the must-have roast potatoes and parsnips. <\/span>
Cooked, or should I say incinerated, on the barbecue. <\/span>
But then who can blame Mr Wren for not wanting to go out in the heat of the day to check on them! Fortunately I don’t have any photos!<\/span><\/div>\n

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I do have photos however, of some wonderful walks we enjoyed …<\/span><\/div>\n

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Number Sixteen Beach, Rye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Sorrento Ocean Beach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
We had a lovely surprise on Boxing Day, a last minute invite for sundowners on Port Phillip Bay <\/span>on this gorgeous catamaran:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Blairgowrie pier, waiting for pick up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
We weren’t the only ones admiring the cat, <\/span><\/div>\n
as we were joined by a pod of dolphins playing and racing alongside for a while.<\/span><\/div>\n
That was a pretty special boating on the bay experience!<\/span><\/div>\n

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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas too, do share!<\/span><\/div>\n

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