
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. 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

Famesick by Lena Dunham 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. Two Now or Never Festival events this week: Continue reading

01. My (almost annual) Reading Holiday – away with two friends; I read one book (Patchett) and started another (Perry); had two glorious walks by the ocean (I never get tired of fossicking by the shore); and basically the BEST, most relaxing time. Continue reading

01. Dine Out event at Frankie’s – a delicious set menu but the standouts were the grilled octopus, snapper and tuna with tostadas and the jericalla baked custard with blood orange sorbet (below). Continue reading

01. Two fun theatre productions this week – Heartbreak Hotel, a look at the physiology of a broken heart through a musical lens (image above). Science and music and a strong emotional narrative combined! It was really terrific. Continue reading

01. Fun to sing the song for the sixth week in a row! Continue reading