Farewell to Melbourne

I can't believe another two weeks have flown by! In a few short hours (still to pack our bags - I can always sleep on the plane!) we will be flying off to Viet Nam.

I managed to sneak off to Ceres today to have a quick squiz around. It really was quick, I only had time to dash around quickly taking photos. I stuffed my bag full of flyers and brought two great resources for when I get home. One on ethical shopping and the other on starting community food projects, both of which are right up my alley!

I am pretty sure there was a picture of Tessa on the wall of the fabulous new info centre - were you there in 1996 Tess?

Tomorrow is the last day of the PDC here and today the students presented their design projects and tonight we had the party.

Sky and I did a skit on traveling in the Melbourne Trams. Sky also made up a joke:

What do you get if you cross a Permaculturist with something fast and hungry?
A Permavulture!

My favorite preformance of the evening was Bill's Whale story. Not many people have been on the other side of a whales throat, and he lived to tell the tale!

Coming in a close 2nd was the Permaculturally adapted lumberjack song (complete with Austrian outfits) which was hilarious and also harmonious.

Then there was the Gyno Kinetic Phobia therapy designed to cure Bill of his phobia of women falling on him. I'm not sure if it worked but it was certainly fun and involved the whole audience - the women descending on Bill like a storm of screaming banshees (led by Sky) and Bill being protected by his guild of Men. No women, children or Mollisons were harmed during the therapy!

Then there were poems, songs, stories, water dances, fairy recipes and the list goes on. PDC parties are always a hoot!

I don't have time to post the photos tonight as I really do need to go and pack our bags! Your in for a treat when I do though.

Half way through our trip already!