My husband Mike and I went to the Royal Botanic Gardens in our city of Melbourne yesterday and took the photos of it and surrounding parkland:

MORE PICS TAKEN TODAY AT OUR HOUSE DURING CHRISTMAS LUNCH. THIS LAST PIC IS OF SISTER SUE AND HE DAUGHTER ALEXANDRA.

FOURTH GRANDSON TATE TODAY AT OUR HOUSE.

(CHRISTMAS DAY)

AFTER THE PIÑATA - LEFT TO RIGHT: GRANDSONS JACK (6), TATE (2), ASHTON (5), HARRY (15 MONTHS) AND CAMERON (2)

AT OUR HOUSE FOR LUNCH THIS CHRISTMAS. BACK ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: BEN, MIKE, ALEXANDRA, JAMES AND PAUL.
MIDDLE ROW: NICOLA, EMMA WITH CAMERON, SUE AND SALLY WITH ASHTON.
FRONT ROW: PIP WITH HARRY, TATE, ANDREW WITH JACK.

SOME SCENES FROM CHRISTMAS LUNCH HELD AT OUR PLACE TODAY WITH FAMILY.

I HAVE JUST MADE THIS MANGO TRIFLE FOR CHRISTMAS AND WILL ADD SOME MORE CREAM NEARER THE TIME.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL BLOG VISITORS AND OF COURSE:  A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND 2013.

THANKS FOR VISITING MY BLOG. I HAVE HAD ALMOST 10,000 VISITORS SINCE I STARTED THE BLOG IN LATE 2009.

9439 visits since I started my blog three years ago.Thanks so much.

This pic was just sent to us. It is one of Mike and me taken this February outside a very old church on Mount Monserrate overlooking Bogotá, Colombia.

I minded fifth grandson Harry today in Glen Iris. Have included some local scenes. (Harry is 14 months).