Melbourne Places

During the wine and food festival the Express Lunch promotion was a good way to check out a top restaurant at a reasonable price.  $40 with a glass of Australian wine.
Our first booking was at Bristo Guillaume in the Crown Entertainment Complex, with its wonderful location on Southbank and its striking entrance way.

We were seated [...]

Books – old, new, first editions, read once and passed to another reader – there is a charm in these old books.
As a student I wandered the corridors of the University Library, stroking and gazing at all the books.  I loved being amongst them.   Many were old and had worn covers suggesting a line of [...]

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Thomas Demand is a conceptual artist where photography is an essential part of the end product.  The photograph is then mounted on Plexiglass.
I got to see Thomas Demand’s exhibition, which is now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, because the price was included in the ticket for Jeff Wall’s Photographs at the Ian Potter [...]

I went to this exhibition because photographs make up so much of our every day.  We snap everything.  A table we might buy, the cafe we’re in, the food we’re eating, our latest nail polish effect, our cat doing something silly and so on. We send these quick pics to our friends and family with [...]

Degraves Street, Hardware Lane, ACDC Lane, Centre Place, Crossley Street, Hosier Lane, Myers Place and Degraves Street.
This is a list of some of the more well-know laneways in Melbourne’s CBD. I have begun and finished with Degraves Street because it’s my favourite laneway.   I like its grunginess and dinginess.  Its vibe and its people.  I [...]

Once again Myers have brought their own magic to the festive season.  This year they have been helped with magic from Russell the sheep, his pals and their creator Rob Scotton.

The story begins:-
‘Twas the night before
Christmas in Frogbottom Field.
Not a creature was stirring
except for…..
Russell.

The fascinatingly designed sheep are all sleeping in their own particular sleeping [...]

This is the most amazing structure to come across at Federation Square.  It is part of the 10 year birthday celebrations.
Patrick Dougherty has created this masterpiece out of materials that would otherwise have been burned – a sort of recycling project.
It is made from willow tree sticks and saplings – the same willow that can [...]

Have you wandered around the Federation Square car park recently?  It seems an odd question to ask.  But if you have you will have noticed the thriving veggie gardens.  If you haven’t go and have a look.  The gardens are inspiring.

I like the idea of working in the CBD,  tending a garden during a lunch [...]

Design and display excellence, is on show in the CBD in the old General Post Office – GPO.
Spring and Summer has brought stunning decorations to create a sunny happy atmosphere.

These are made from a folded stiff paper as is all this  creative and striking slice of  ‘nature’.
It is Spring/Summer here with colours reflecting the fashion [...]