Puffing Billy
For our Christmas present, Zoë and Mike bought us vouchers for a meal on Puffing Billy.
We booked to have lunch in the First Class Dining carriage on Monday. Puffing Billy is a one hundred year old steam train which runs along a narrow guage track through some magnificent scenery in the Dandenong Ranges. It was a very pleasant afternoon.
We booked to have lunch in the First Class Dining carriage on Monday. Puffing Billy is a one hundred year old steam train which runs along a narrow guage track through some magnificent scenery in the Dandenong Ranges. It was a very pleasant afternoon.
The rest of the week has been quite uneventful. Brian and Zoë played golf on Thursday afternoon as she wasn't teaching and on Friday they were invited to play "Nine and Dine" at a friend's golf club. We have been getting ready for our trip to NewZealand on Monday.
On Saturday morning we went to watch Ashleigh play soft ball. Once agin she played very well.
On the way home we watched a house auction. This is a common method of selling houses in Australia. The house was open for viewing at 12.30pm and there were many people looking round. Serious buyers would have viewed it before and had surveys done etc. There were obviously a number of nosey people like us there, for when the auctioneer started the auction, no one made any bids. After consulting with the vendor he opened the bids at a reserve price, but still no interest, so he closed the auction. All this business was carried out in the street in front of the house - quite bizarre. Zoë reckoned it was over priced and that was why it didnt sell that day.
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