Sabbatical 2016: Topsy turvey seasons

It's March, really hot, the leaves on the trees are turning yellow and beginning to fall, magazines and shops are advertising Autumn events and the shops are filled with Easter goods! It's hard to get my head around it all!

We have shared stories with Julie and Andrew about our respective times as mission partners and they like us missed the seasons while they were overseas and are enjoying the variety of the seasons again in Australia as we are in the UK albeit the opposite way round!

Orange is a great wine producing area and Julie and I tasted some fabulous varieties on Sunday afternoon...then our drivers came to take us home! Yesterday we drove two hours each way to the wonderful Taronga Western Plains Zoo and I got to stroke a wallaby! Today our hosts have kindly taken us around some of the local area...Canebolas Lake, Canebolas mountain (an extinct volcano), the Botanical Gardens (including the cottage of Banjo Patterson, writer of Waltzing Matilda), and to an old gold rush town for tea and cake.