Melbourne on a good day

Just a few pictures from Moonlight Cinema at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens - wine, food, gossip, great movies.... one of my cities best views!

Hope those of you far away will get the chance to come along with us one of these days.

Bonne Annee, Gott Nytt Ar, Happy New Year

To all my wonderful, cherished and much missed friends, I have had a most humorous New Year's Eve here on Mt Dandenong, and I must say that at 12:00 as I looked over the mass of lights that make up the suburbia of Melbourne from a hill-top forest track, I was thinking of you, my 'family', and missing you dearly. As the pictures below show, I have spent my New Year working a 12-hour shift as a waitress at 'Wild Oak' then taking a trek through the bush to watch some non-existent fire works (too much bushfire smoke to see anything), then drinks at the local pub, then breakfast back at work at 4am with my colleagues, boss (chef Ben) and his remarkably patient wife and soon-to-be-mum.....

I hope wherever you are you are dancing, drinking and laughing....

The night's off the a flying start in the kitchen

All star service gets all revellers out the door by 11

Ben kicks the post-dinner party off

Hundreds of people came to the hills to see the fireworks over melbourne - but bushfire smoke covered the city, and the view

At 'Kate Kelly's' - the local pub in the hills

And we all ended up back at Wild Oak, where Rhianna made rum cocktails and Ben cooked up a stunning 4am breakfast!