So Miss Theresa and I are engaging in mutual blogging.  She’s blogging about the Great Big Sea night (all the bits that I was too bashful/restrained/euphoric/discreet/giddy/shy to write about) and I’m sitting next to her blogging about Melbourne fretwork. She said “didn’t you already blog about Melbourne fretwork?” And I said “only about the idea.  I have’t shown them pictures! ” And I haven’t taken 200 images of buildings in Melbourne with amazing wrought iron (which is probably what it properly is, not fretwork) not to show you some. The fretwork just fascinates me.  It’s all over the place: on almost every single house. I wonder who made it?  Was there a whole industry in Melbourne?  Or was it imported? When do all the fretwork buildings date from?  I can do a reasonable guess at architecture dates in NZ and the US, but I’m not at all familiar with the architecture styles in Australia. Theresa also pointed out to me that many of the houses around Melbourne have names.  We looked at the names together …