Do you need some magic in your life? Go down to Phillip Island and watch the penguin parade. It’s magic. I saw it a few weekends ago. It is an outdoor thing to do so the weather is something to factor in. We were lucky it was a mild windless night and I found…
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I hang out all winter waiting for spring and then summer but it is spring that wakes me up and says,”Get out there. Get some fresh air. It’s the time to be out and about.” We celebrated the first day of spring on September the 1st. We passed the spring equinox on September 22nd…
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I miss-judged the Stonnington City Council and what they were doing with the changes to the Windsor end of Chapel Street in my post “Walking Chapel Street Early on a Sunday Morning” A few weeks later and the flower beds are flourishing. Workers are cleaning the rubbish on a regular basis and more importantly…
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Batch is still here. I first wrote about Batch on this blog in 2010. It is wonderful to find that some places don’t turn over. The media is full of reviews of a new place opening their doors. So they should be we need to know what is happening out there. For example…
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During my blog holiday the Hank Marvin Market opened in Alma Park St Kilda East. It has become a regular haunt on a Saturday morning. It opened while Alma Parks still had an upgrade under way. The months during winter were muddy but the crowds still came. The up-grade is now finished and…
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Melbourne Places is rolling on again after a sabbatical. I love that word, sabbatical. It conjures up so much that is mysterious. What happens during a sabbatical? What do people do? Where do they go? I spent my twelve month’s sabbatical from my blog hanging out in Melbourne. For some of that time I…
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Chapel Street on an early Sunday morning is lacklustre. The glitter and the buzz of Saturday night is over and what is left reminds me of the dregs in last night’s beer and wine glasses. I begin walking in Balaclava so the first thing that grabs my attention is a tobacconist on the corner…
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Walk!!!! It is what we should all be doing. So says a friend who is a health professional. “What you need to do to stay fit is walk.” She says this with great firmness “Get out there and walk.” I began my fitness walk last Sunday. I headed from tram stop 36 on Dandenong …
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One of the current free exhibitions at the NGV is called ” Exquisite Threads – English Embroidery 1600s to 1900s.” These days we aren’t used to seeing embroidery that is done by friends and family and most of us don’t do it ourselves. As I walked in I tried to remember any of my…
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Tarlo and Graham are closing their shop on the corner of Chapel and McIlwrick Streets Windsor and moving to their base in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. They have been in the Windsor location for eleven years. I will miss them. I love walking along and exploring the Windsor end of Chapel Street and Tarlo and…
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