📷 As I’ve mentioned before I no longer eat mammal meat, which is mostly easy peasy but just occasionally I get the craving for some ham or bacon. Now there are vegan (wheat protein-derived) imitations in the supermarket, I can once again treat myself 😇 (Day 7 #mbfeb prompt.)

📷 Day 4’s prompt is layers, which I found a tricky one 🤔 Melburnians are known for our prodigious wearing of layers in the winter, so I went and found a selfie from July. Under this coat I’d have had a jumper or vest and a proper shirt on! Not to mention my multilayered mask 😷

📷 Day 2 of the photoblogging challenge! Today’s prompt is morning beverage. Last year I bought these neat insulated tumblers and plunger, to solve the problem of my coffee going lukewarm before I could finish it. Now I get to relax with my daily brew instead of chugging it 😎

📷 I’m not sure how I’ll do, but I thought it’d be fun to participate in Micro.blog’s Feb 2021 photoblogging challenge 😅 Today’s Day 1 prompt is close up, so have one of those of a pretty flower I saw in Sherbrooke Forest when we went there two weekends ago. 🌼

Today Viv and I drove out to the Dandenong Ranges on Wurundjeri land to do the Eastern Sherbrooke Forest Walk. We went a slightly long way round, so it was about 10km through temperate rainforest, a bit hilly with one really steep section. (The more direct route has two really steep sections, so I felt like we went the better way.) The weather was warmer and sunnier, but the forest was as beautiful as when we walked through it in June 😊

Not only is it a scenic walk, but I find the sounds of the birdsongs and chirping insects really peaceful and relaxing. We saw a number of native species that we don’t often see in the city (but kept our distance, so I don’t have good pictures) – a wallaby, who kept an eye on us from a distance, probably hoping we’d leave it food (we didn’t…); two kookaburras, and a few crimson rosellas (we do have rosellas in our suburb, but they’re the Eastern variety).

Viv and I have been talking about slotting bushwalks into our routine more often, and today’s experience – exhausting but fulfilling – has made me even surer that we should. It’s great to get out into nature sometimes.

It was a warm day today, so Viv and I took a late afternoon walk to our local beach.

On our way home, we ducked into a bottle shop that’s only been open for a week or so. We wanted to check out their range of beers, and were pleasantly surprised – it’s really extensive!

Confronted with so much choice, in the end Vivian was the one who made the decision and went for this novelty lager.

In the end, it was a pretty ordinary lager. But surely the sacrifice was worth it to give us an excuse to reminisce about this classic press conference moment by our state premier, and the months Victorians spent moaning, “Can we get on the beers yet?”.

Since Melbourne’s first lockdown I’ve been growing out my hair (not just because hairdressers were closed, I’d also been feeling like a change from the short hair I’d had for six years). Today after I brushed it, I found it just naturally curling at the end like this! Very cool 😲

When people say they’re “useless until I’ve had my morning coffee”, they’re referring to the debilitating headaches, right? Otherwise, how have I got my body to the point that I just have two cups a day, but get sleep-wrecking withdrawal headaches from 4am until I’ve had them??