And Now Sunday's News

Life continues to bubble along with things to do, sport to enjoy on the TV and new movies to watch. Our Grand daughter Charli has just started "Three Year Old Kindergarten". All pre school activities such as Play Group, Kindergarten etc help to promote social skills and assist children in their smooth transition into future school life. Charli's mum and dad are both teachers so she gets to participate in all things which prepare her for school.

Just have a look at the size of the 'back pack'. Chiropractors must rub their hand with glee when they see children with huge school bags like this, their financial future is assured!. Our daughter Kate was a little disappointed when she said good bye to Charli as she had to leave and all she got in reply was a cursory look from Charli as she said "Bye Mum" and went back to concentrating on her play dough!

And as you can see below, James (though not old enough to attend just yet) isn't going to find Three Year Old Kindergarten much of a hassle either!

The news of the moment here is the weather. While northern Queensland is drenched with floods (some areas experienced falls of 14 inches of rain in the last 24 hours) Melbourne has had a day where the temperature got to 46 degrees (almost 115 degrees Lou Ann). Serious bushfires broke out across the state taking an estimated 40 lives and destroying hundreds of homes. I took this screen shot (above left) at 5 pm yesterday and shows the then current temperature in Melbourne.

There were fires close to our daughter's home in suburban Melbourne and there was some consternation there as you can imagine. It is going to be 24 degrees there today (high 70's) and much cooler. There might even be thunderstorms later today.

Our news here is the pavers surrounding the pool. We had them laid about 3 and a half years ago and already you can see the aggregate showing through. A representative from the company which sold them to us saw them Friday afternoon and believes it looks like we got a crook batch .... but what is to happen about we don't know just yet.

I have been busy with the Bellvista Community Association Blog page and have been trying to shift it to another account. I have also constructed a simple but effective Bellvista Community Association web page and have distributed it to a few of the members of the committee to seek their feedback.