
01. A brief post this week because there has been a lot happening on the home front… Continue reading

01. A brief post this week because there has been a lot happening on the home front… Continue reading

01. This week’s Birrarung Riverfest event: Dight’s Falls Cultural Walking Tour – a stunning day and interesting talk, especially the bits about plants. Continue reading

01. A lovely morning for the start of Birrarung Riverfest, making ‘hotels’ for native bees (of which there are over 2000 native species). Australian native bees live alone and don’t make honey. Their preferred place to reside is in little holes (hence the bunch of sticks). Our hotel is now installed in our wattle tree, which is the equivalent of having a nice restaurant in the hotel. Continue reading

01. It was a week of launches, including the MTC 2027 season launch. Lots of excellent productions ahead, particularly Richard III and A Delicate Balance. I’m excited but I’ll also be missing a large chunk of Melbourne in 2027 (if all goes to plan…). Continue reading

01. Spring! (see ya, winter). Continue reading

01. Mid-week bathing at Soak (that’s their pic above). It was lovely. Continue reading

01. Italian Film Festival at the lovely Westgarth Theatre (I’m obsessed with the art deco features, including the tiled floor). Saw Diamonds – lush and heartwarming. Continue reading

01. OMG. Have you seen the 2026 Laneway Festival lineup? Chappell! Lucy! Wet Leg! Teen Jesus! Role Model! Continue reading

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. This week, all three came via Print Mag’s 2024 100 Best Book Covers article. Continue reading

01. Cicchetti class with Pia Gava – everything we made was so delicious but the highlights were the polpette di melanzana (eggplant balls), the battered baccala and the artichoke parmigiano pesto on crostini. Continue reading