01. Spring! (see ya, winter). Continue reading
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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Two Now or Never Festival events this week: Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. My Melbourne International Film Festival picks this week: Continue reading
Six Degrees of Separation – from Land to The Ruiners
It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
The Happiest Things from Things That Are Making Me Happy
It’s hard to pick out the happiest of happy things but this is my list of 2025 highlights (excluding books – more on those later – and holidays, and I had some amazing ones this year, notably Hobart, Cambodia, New Zealand, and my sinkholes tour). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. I love looking at big infrastructure projects (it’s the planner in me that lingers). Today we got to walk part way into the West Gate Tunnel, before the cars takeover in December. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. The Mourning After is a project that invites people to explore grief in all its forms. It’s focused on grief as a social practice and aims to improve ‘grief literacy’. The project currently includes an exhibition – it’s really wonderful. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Putting the whole going-to-space fiasco aside, Katy Perry sure knows how to put on a fabulous, fun concert. Hit after hit, brilliant costumes and so much energy. Although Teenage Dream will always be my absolute fave, her concert remix of I Kissed a Girl was the standout. Continue reading
Author talk – David Nicholls
I saw David Nicholls speak this week about his latest novel, You Are Here. He was as funny, engaging and generous as I had expected. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. It’s Melbourne Writers Festival! I went to four events over the weekend. Continue reading