Wednesday March 3rd

We arrived at the block at 4.30pm, a warm but pleasant drive up from Melbourne. Play practice tonight in town. After a bit of a wander around it was time for a cuppa and read in the hammock. About 6.30 I heard the pad of a creature somewhere behind me and figured a knagaroo was about and heading to the dam for a drink. Turned out to be our quiet friend, the black wallaby who lives up in the forest. He regularly moves around on the hill by the house but is generally shy and won't hang around if disturbed. Anyway, he seemed happy enough to hop across the driveway and nibble the grass in the paddock heading down to the dam. Digger barked at him from the verandah but he wasn't put off by that and hung around. Finally I had to jump in the car and head off about 10 past 7, so drove slowly down the hill. He hopped off a little way but was still hanging about when I got to the bottom of the hill.
Headed back to Melbourne Thursday morning after watering the trees. Will be back up next Wednesday.

3 pm March 1st

Have logged up about 4 hours on the computer today and wasted a good hour or so trying to open the resources in the library without success. At least I got the blog page up and running so that is something.

3pm March 1st

Major trouble accessing resources that are on the reserve list at csu so haven't got much reading done at all. If there are going to be frequent hassles accessing the course materials I will not last very long. Pissed off already and it's only Day 1 !

Welcome

Hi everyone. Well, so far so good. Welcome to my blog. I've called it Under the Ridge after my 30 acre bush block in the Strathbogie Ranges of north-east Victoria, which is at the end of a dirt road and up the side of a mountain. It has a fantastic view of the mouontain ridge over which Eagles commonly soar, koalas growl, kangaroos, wallabies and foxes shelter, echidnas fossick and snakes slither. There are also many amazing granite boulders all over the hills. At night the Milky Way is stunningly clear.