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
Tag Archives: opera
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Spring! (see ya, winter). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. My Melbourne International Film Festival picks this week: Continue reading
Show-off Holiday Post – Vienna
The final part – the Vienna bit – of my Eurovision trip (so far: Zürich, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Eurovision). 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’m not overstating when I say that Opera Australia’s Orpheus & Eurydice was the most incredible production I’ve seen in thirty years (the previous benchmark being Barrie Kosky’s 1995 production of Nabucco). (image) 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. A crowd-pleaser for good reason! Lovely night at Opera Australia’s The Barber of Seville (and especially good to see my dear opera friend who I haven’t spent time with for months). 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 2024 highlights (excluding books and holidays). Continue reading
#NOVNOV – Two by Julian Barnes
I accept that everyone is focused on next year’s reading challenges but I have some unfinished #NovNov business! Continue reading