Were you woken to the soothing sounds of birds this morning?? Or was it clanking of industrial machines??

The wheel washer (also known as the cattle grid) was removed today. I’ve never quite understood its location. Logic would suggest it would be placed near the exit onto St Kilda Rd to keep the site dust from being carted onto the local road….but with various configuration changes, it was near the entrance.

On the assumption that you didn’t want to watch and listen to the hour of video in normal time, I’ve sped it up for you.

The wine shop across the road has a 20% off sale if you buy more than 6 bottles (excludes sparkling and spirits).

Support your local retailers…but don’t go overboard

Buy Wine, Beer and Spirits Online | The Melbourne Wine Store (themelbwinestore.com.au)

More action in the night – at least they weren’t speeding 🙂

If you are worried about the Chiller Plants then it would be good to tell our prospective new councillor!!

Gary Buck is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: The Botanica residents / Heather Cunsolo
Time: Oct 8, 2020 03:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75770560828?pwd=cEdUMkQ3RGFSZlRrWW9PeVRDa0VRQT09

Meeting ID: 757 7056 0828
Passcode: 4DM35c

Heather Cunsolo is running for City of Port Phillip in our ward. Due to Covid she can’t do the normal door knocking but she contacted me and would like to talk to us on a zoom call.

Voting starts early next week – She is proposing 3pm Thursday but has some flexibility.

She is the only candidate that has tried to make contact – that’s a good first step. More about her here

If anyone is interested, put a comment up here or send me an email

Alice, the second TBM broke through at South Yarra on Saturday. This means that their is no more spoil to move from Edmund Herring oval until the two TBM’s head towards Flinders St in the new year.

There will still be DAYTIME trucks for some time.

Here is a video of parts of Millie being trucked past us in the early hours of Saturday morning.

One major noise source gone 🙂

Thirty trucks and then they stopped at 130am…I wondered why until Millie raised her head

For your info the Council elections are coming up in October. They will be via a postal vote.

Jan and I have had a very good working relationship with the Mayor and our rep, Bernadene Voss. Unfortunately she is not running for election this time around.

I have today met with Bernadene and she highly commends Heather Cunsolo. Her website is http://www.heathercunsolo.com/ , I dropped a flyer in each letterbox with some more information.

I’ll try and meet with Heather (virtually) before election time and pass on further thoughts.

We were told that Millie was nearing her arrival in South Yarra – nothing announced by Metro Tunnel but the absence of that horrible vibration and almost total absence of trucks MUST mean she has made it.

At last.

Will start again but some respite for now