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
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. Continue reading
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
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
01. It’s time for Melbourne’s winter arts festival, RISING. We started with Swingers – it’s an art installation, with mini-golf as an added bonus. Such fun. The hole designed by Miranda July, Wave of Fortune, which finished with your ball landing in a ‘fortune’ was my favourite, closely followed by Soda Jerk’s ‘Algorithmic K-Hole and the Techno-Serfdom of Simulated Entrapment Under Slop Capitalism’ (which features the Teletubbies and scenes from Heathers). Continue reading
I’m having a Miranda July overload! (Happily, it’s a good place to be). Mini-golf, #6degrees, movies, books…
Last night I saw her 2020 movie, Kajillionaire, and also finished one of her short story collections, No One Belongs Here More Than You, published in 2007. My thoughts are more Miranda-July-in-general rather than specific to this short story collection. Continue reading
01. I reckon you’d know loads more Alison Moyet songs than you realise… My fave is Only You (but she played them all, except Invisible). Continue reading
More 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction reading – but have listened to audios (the wait-list on hard copies at the library was impossibly long for all of them). Continue reading
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
01. Our final Melbourne Food & Wine event – a Keralan ‘banana leaf feast’ on the banks of the Birrarung (Yarra) in Warburton. It was spectacular – tables winding along the river, live music, and tasty dishes (my favourite was the thoran – cabbage stir-fried with mustard seeds, coconut and curry leaves). Continue reading