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Turtle and Sarah’s adventures in Melbourne – Part 1

Hooray!! Hooray 🙂 I am pretty sure that Turtle is visiting Melbourne this July. 🙂 He did tell me we could meet in July (many…

Molly and Digby’s house

I am going to miss these doglets so much when I go home tomorrow. There are going to be lots of things to miss about…

From the bird-filled skies of Thornbury

Everything feels so far away, Until I am on the tram and on my way. Trundling along a green corridor, And through my vibrant home…

AAArmstrong – Italo Disco Dance Machine playlist

It has been fantastic to give Daddy’s Italo Disco Dance Machine a deeper listen. I have struggled with this playlist in the past, however, my…

songs for moving, , , and fun

MORE potential activities for Turtle and I!! I just went past some interesting shops on Lower Johnston Street. . . one had the cutest turtle…

Is it a coincidence?? Sara Bareilles – Songs from Waitress

What is this business? I have two songs from this EP as ear worms in the past week. The album always interested me. But there…

Streets ahead – Smashed Avocado

There is a certain kind of fragile that comes with a big Saturday night or at least, extreme sleep deprivation. It was the first real…

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

COVID-19 has certainly brought more television into my life. Some of it good, some of it not so good. A friend suggested Dirk Gently’s Holistic…

Ode to winter rain

Warm in winter clothes while the rain falls. Sheltered from the atmospheric cold and wet. And viewing the world, separated by glass. It pours down…

songs for moving, , , and fun

MORE potential activities for Turtle and I!! I just went past some interesting shops on Lower Johnston Street. . . one had the cutest turtle…

NGV Nights – Pharaoh opening night

The buzz of the city on a Friday after work. Sitting in a bar outside drinking a beer before I go and meet my friends…

Winter solstice 2023 – Happy Solar New Year!

The shortest day of the year (in the southern hemisphere) today! How are you feeling? I am good! If a bit right-brain oriented at the…

In the Club by Patricia Cornelius – review

There are probably not many plays you can think of where you want to just stand up and yell at the actors during their delivery…

Bloom – Melbourne Theatre Company – 5 stars!

If you want to be delighted. If you want to cry tears of joy. And enjoy 1 hr 45 minutes absolutely entertained by the most…

Beautiful Highness – Chapel Off Chapel

Based on a true story, Beautiful Highness centres around one family’s incredible grit and determination in dealing with mental ill-health. Unsentimental, heartwarming and gently humorous, the play…

AAArmstrong – Italo Disco Dance Machine playlist

It has been fantastic to give Daddy’s Italo Disco Dance Machine a deeper listen. I have struggled with this playlist in the past, however, my…

songs for moving, , , and fun

MORE potential activities for Turtle and I!! I just went past some interesting shops on Lower Johnston Street. . . one had the cutest turtle…

Is it a coincidence?? Sara Bareilles – Songs from Waitress

What is this business? I have two songs from this EP as ear worms in the past week. The album always interested me. But there…

Streets ahead – Smashed Avocado

There is a certain kind of fragile that comes with a big Saturday night or at least, extreme sleep deprivation. It was the first real…

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

COVID-19 has certainly brought more television into my life. Some of it good, some of it not so good. A friend suggested Dirk Gently’s Holistic…

Ode to winter rain

Warm in winter clothes while the rain falls. Sheltered from the atmospheric cold and wet. And viewing the world, separated by glass. It pours down…

songs for moving, , , and fun

MORE potential activities for Turtle and I!! I just went past some interesting shops on Lower Johnston Street. . . one had the cutest turtle…

NGV Nights – Pharaoh opening night

The buzz of the city on a Friday after work. Sitting in a bar outside drinking a beer before I go and meet my friends…

Winter solstice 2023 – Happy Solar New Year!

The shortest day of the year (in the southern hemisphere) today! How are you feeling? I am good! If a bit right-brain oriented at the…

In the Club by Patricia Cornelius – review

There are probably not many plays you can think of where you want to just stand up and yell at the actors during their delivery…

Bloom – Melbourne Theatre Company – 5 stars!

If you want to be delighted. If you want to cry tears of joy. And enjoy 1 hr 45 minutes absolutely entertained by the most…

Beautiful Highness – Chapel Off Chapel

Based on a true story, Beautiful Highness centres around one family’s incredible grit and determination in dealing with mental ill-health. Unsentimental, heartwarming and gently humorous, the play…

Travel and holidays

Turtle and Sarah’s adventures in Melbourne – Part 1

Hooray!! Hooray 🙂 I am pretty sure that Turtle is visiting Melbourne this July. 🙂 He did tell me we could meet in July (many…

Molly and Digby’s house

I am going to miss these doglets so much when I go home tomorrow. There are going to be lots of things to miss about…

From the bird-filled skies of Thornbury

Everything feels so far away, Until I am on the tram and on my way. Trundling along a green corridor, And through my vibrant home…

light art pipeldoot looking back on 2017
winter solstice 2024

Food and drink

Day trip into the CBD – The Tea Rooms 1892 – and a spot of shopping

Yesterday was a fun adventure!! My client was not answering her phone and our agreement is to leave her in peace if that is the…

A Japanese dinner in the CBD on a whim – Tuesday night the 9th of July 2024

Another adventure!! It was a bitterly cold and gloomy day in Melbourne today. Not only that but it RAINED (quite a bit)!! I have never…

The Gem fish burger

I am listening to some sweet, sweet music tonight. Right now is a song by Sigrid called Home to You from my top 100 songs….

light art animated gif best of 2019 compilation