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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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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The South Melbourne Market has been up graded over the years. I can still remember when it was the cramped and crowed market that I fell in love with years ago. Now there is more space and there seems to be more light. I’m not sure if this is true but I remember it…
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December arrives and the fabulous and fun St Kilda Twilight Market is up and running again. It’s on again this Thursday, the 8th of December and goes right through summer until March next year. Every year during summer the St Kilda Twilight Market brings the local community and visitors together on Thursday evenings with…
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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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January and February are great times for Op-shopping. An item in our local newspaper quoted Kate Dear, General Manager of Red Cross in Victoria as saying, “Instead of throwing away your dud presents, why not re-gift them?” I believe people are doing that and some businesses are also ‘gifting’ some of their excess stock…
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Souvenirs! Mementos! Gifts from Melbourne! Christmas presents for relatives and friends overseas? Whatever we call them we all need to buy them at sometime. There are clip on koalas, painted boomerangs, cuddly Kangaroos with a Joey in the pouch, cute wombats, beautifully painted didgeridoos – difficult to travel with………. Great souvenirs but once you…
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I have been meaning to write about this fascinating shop in Lygon Street for some time. It wasn’t until an overseas friend joined me in Lygon Street for coffee and we browsed the strip that I remembered it. She loved it and it was hard to drag her out of the place. She kept…
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Middle Park – preserved Old Melbourne Tourists to Melbourne often see this city as the CBD and Lygon Street in Carlton. That was the way I saw Melbourne when I first visited here. I came a couple of times a year re-newed my friendships with these spots and of course the cake shops in…
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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…
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