Conquering Victoria’s world class rail trails from one end to the other has long been the exclusive domain of avid cyclists and maybe the odd horse rider.

Daniele was born in 1940 during WW2 in the Alsace region of France. “I was very young but I do remember my mother turning the radio down low, shutting the blackout curtains at night and listening to the voice of Churchill on the BBC.”

We gardeners are a friendly lot, and will find any excuse to get together and chat about all things horticultural. And often we learn something as well.

While we take for granted that bird eggs have hard and brittle shells, eggs inside the female bird are soft shelled until shortly before laying, when calcium is added to harden them. Just why this happens is unclear, as plenty of reptiles (for example) lay soft shelled eggs.

More than a century ago, a man named John Gunn designed a postcard to promote the township of Toora to the world. Now the Toora Family History Group is asking locals a simple but thought-provoking question: if you were designing that postcard today, what would you include?

Many picture the Prom Coast as pristine windswept beaches, rolling ocean waves and sand dunes. Summer holidays and surf!

If recent open days at the Toora Lions Club’s new den on Stanley Street are anything to go by, the official grand opening on Saturday 20 June will surely attract an even greater crowd to the newly bought premises.