The paper sculptures are huge and they remind me of giants’ Christmas decorations. You can see the size in this photo. Louise Paramor has called this exhibition, which was commissioned by the NGV ‘Palace of the Republic’ as she was inspired by German Architecture she saw in Berlin. There are eight of these enormous…
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Australia wouldn’t be Australia if there wasn’t sea food for Christmas, New Year, Australia Day any other occasion where people get together. ‘Chuck a few prawns on the Barbie’ is a sort of a joke but it is also what happens. All summer in Australian households across the country, sea food is being ‘chucked’…
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Melbourne has been my home for a number of years and I am amazed that it is only now that I have discovered Basement Discs. A friend suggested I meet her there as she was picking up a CD she had ordered. I crept down the steep concrete stairs feeling intrigued. It was hard…
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It is almost the time of the year for me to scramble under the spare bed and pull out the box of Christmas decorations. I’ve had these decorations for years and every year I try to find another bauble to add to them. Last year it was a mouse with bracelets and a scarf…
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Books for Cooks has moved. The shop is no longer in that cute little house on Gertrude Street in Fitzroy. After all these years it now has a greater and more comfortable space at the Queen Victoria Market. I first wrote about this fascinating bookshop several years ago – Books for Cooks. There is…
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There is a sustainability tour you can join and take with a leader to tell you the behind the scenes stuff or you can pick up a map and followed the route at your leisure. Sustainability covers everything: Stall holders supporting small farmers whose approach to farming and animal welfare they know and approve…
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A day out from Melbourne is rejuvenating. There’s the drive, the chat in the car and the arrival of the green fields with grazing animals as Melbourne slips away. At the moment the fields are lush with the autumn leaves falling and the world out there is clean and fresh. How’s that for the…
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Mordialloc is a place I usually drive through on my way to somewhere else. This time I stopped. I was with a friend who had an appointment nearby that brought us to lunch time. We were lucky. We found Main Street Cafe. I didn’t expect to find anything with a Brunswick or Chapel Street…
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It is so easy to take a photo and so easy for us to make our photos look like those of the professional that I wonder what I am going to find in a photography exhibition. The NGV is running a festival of Photography so you can check out how your photos rank. When…
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Mornington, the township on the Mornington Peninsula offers, sun, sand, sea, market day every Wednesday and a touch of New Zealand. I was spending the day in this pretty seaside town when a friend introduced me to the New Zealand Shop; call Kiwi House. It’s a place full of New Zealand memorabilia for the…
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