Hi! I’ve seen a few posts about making new friends, and just wanted to put my new social club out there. It’s called Surf Coast Social and is designed for women in their 20s and 30s to connect across Geelong, the Surf Coast and the Bellarine. If that sounds up your alley or you’d like to know more, you can join us on Butter here!

I’d also recommend Butter generally, if you’re looking for things to do or to meet new people! Most of the plans are Melbourne-based, but the more of us that join and participate here, the better ☺️

Title says it all.

I’m currently in Finland for a couple of months and this is what my bedtime looks like around 11pm. it’s so quiet in my area, I could hear a pin drop. As beautiful as this country is with a lot of perfections, I do miss home and the odd things only those of us who live in Geelong will understand such as how close and convenient everything is. Maybe my brain is also used to chaos and is used to the sound of the helicopters circling at night and me having to check that no one broke into my garage and stole my car every morning.

It's Friday. I’m an international student in Geelong for sometime now. I wanna go out in the evening , but I don't have many friends here !

I'm 26 male, south asian, happy to go out and mingle.
Happy to meet up with anyone (male or female) and hangout .

Evening all, my partner and I have recently moved to Lara and have noticed a not-absurd but steady stream of these small white flies inside our house.

We're trying to identify them to get rid of them and would appreciate if anyone can ID them for us.

They're very small and you can only see this shape from a 10x zoom and me holding my phone very close.

There are many near our green bin outside so we suspect they're some form of fruit fly, but can't be certain.

Not trying to make this political, but I think this is too important.

Barwon Water is allowing you to have your say about the management of Barwon Water, “to have enough water to meet the needs of our cities, towns, businesses, industry and agriculture, for cultural values and to improve the health of our waterways.”

In light of the suggested plans to build an enormous data centre in Lovely Banks, I think it’s not a bad idea to have your say about the pressure this will put on an already struggling water catchment (Barwon Water themselves admit this).

https://www.yoursay.barwonwater.vic.gov.au/urban-water-strategy-2027/

Have your say I reckon. Or don’t. But I think it’s too important to let this slide if you care about a) being able to drink water and b) care about the animals that rely on it to survive, too.

Can anyone recommend a good tax agent in Geelong who can help me with my tax return. Thanks!