
01. It’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival! Two dinners and an event: Continue reading

01. It’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival! Two dinners and an event: Continue reading

01. Friday evening at Slow Poke cocktail bar (and then dinner afterwards at Pincho Disco). The view from Slow Poke toward Kew is one that you don’t get often. And, the Slow Poke Sling cocktail was exceptional. Also, is it crazy to have made travel plans for 2028?! Because my friend and I have… Continue reading

01. It’s the holiday edition! All I’ve done for nine days is sit on the beach and read books. I commented to a friend that I feel very fortunate that my ‘happy place’ is relatively simple to achieve. Continue reading

01. Finishing the week with sunset over the sea. Continue reading

01. Ten hours of music fun at Laneway Festival. Highlights: on the ‘small’ stage, Bel Air Lip Bombs and Teen Jesus delivered. On the big stages, I loved seeing Lucy Dacus and Role Model but the highlights were Wet Leg and (of course) Chappell. Continue reading

01. A night in Warburton for some walks among tall trees. Restorative. Continue reading

01. They’ve planted a meadow at the Convent. It’s small but lovely. Continue reading

01. Brilliant night at Bar Selecta with my brother and SIL – yacht rock on the turntable and perfect cocktails (above: a Fly Me to the Moon – two kinds of gin, vermouth, roselle, and cherry tincture). 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

01. A local sinkhole! I got there as quickly as I could (it was well and truly roped off) (image of the hole from here). Continue reading