Our Cottage in Flemington

Here are some pictures of our home in Melbourne. It's a little Victorian single-fronted cottage in the city-fringe suburb of Flemington. Those of you who know Melbourne will know that Flemington is where the famous Melbourne Cup horse race is held during a month-long orgy of horse racing, tipping/betting/punting, gentlemen in fine jackets carvorting with ladies in fine hats fueled by glasses of fine champagne...it's known as the Spring Racing Carnival. Anyway our house is about two kilometres from the racecourse.

Kingy at front of house taken during Spring of 2006, about a month after we moved here from a dark and depressing apartment the next suburb over in Kensington.

During the warmer months, there are prolific brambles of roses in our little courtyard out the back. There's room in our small back verandah for coffee and breakfast (forgive the makeshift tablecloth courtesy of Becton-Dickinson)...

...and a great view of the nearby government housing flats! Actually we also have a glimpse of Melbourne city beyond that.