More photos from our brief snow trip

I took this shot coming down the mountain back into Marysville, a town ravaged by the Black Saturday bushfires. As you can see, it was a gorgeous day. As you can also see, the tell-tale signs of damage are still very plain. This is taken from the hill on the back road out of Yarra…

Our day in the snow, Lake Mountain

Yesterday we went away on one of our few spontaneous family outings together. Of course I say the word “spontaneous” loosely, for as anyone knows who’s gone to the snow there is a lot of gear and oh are we wearing enough layers? talk. But we were up at Lake Mountain a little before 9.30am,…

Favourite links of the week

* Michelle at Scribbit offers some (as usual) wise blogging advice. * From The Guardian Let’s stop sneering at fantasy readers. Also from The Guardian an in-depth profile of one of my favourite children’s writers/illustrators Anthony Browne. * Here’s a very popular video going around the traps at the moment: Buffy vs. Edward Cullen (very…