Under the cover of almost-darkness, the dog and I went for a walk down one of Melbourne’s many laneways last night and left behind some little inspirational love-notes for strangers. Because maybe just maybe, the RIGHT words will be seen by the RIGHT person, just when they need them the most. The neighbour’s cat was…
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Did you know that you could email any individual tree in the City of Melbourne, and the tree would write back? The helpful folks at Council have individually mapped every tree in the city and assigned it a unique number, then created a website by which you can identify and contact each tree. The website was…
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Lately we’ve been having some strange weather days that feel out of place. Like mid-summer pretending to be autumn. It’s still warm, hot even, but overcast, with the kind of glare that makes you put your sunglasses on and, when you do, turns the day too dark to feel in control any more. Do you…
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Stop the Press. The Travelling Samovar tea house is having a tea auction! Have you ever heard of such a thing? They will be auctioning off beautiful hand-crafted and vintage tea-cups, tea-bowls, tea-pots, trays, an honest-to-goodness vintage samovar and a host of rare and unusual teas, all collected personally by the owners during their global…
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Sometimes do you go along to something that has so much potential but it just falls short? And you’re left with a bit of an empty feeling and you think, “This could have been SO GOOD, why didn’t the organisers take it there?” Yeah me too. I spent the afternoon on Saturday imagining how I…
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Do you have a local market? A growers’ market has just started up around the corner from us, though I haven’t had a chance to visit it yet. We love markets large and small at our place: the hustle and bustle – and fresh produce – of the Victoria Markets; the amazing ring of food…
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A couple of weeks ago we headed over to the new Batman Market at Coburg and let me tell you one thing for free: it was street food heaven. We were there quite early, at about 9.30am, but already a string of food trucks had formed a wonky kind of circle at one end of…
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“Would you like to hear a story?” a woman beckons, from the doorway of a caravan. And just like that a small group materialises as if from nowhere and sits at her feet, prepared to be enthralled. I am reminded powerfully of my children’s daycare centre, when a teacher pulls out a copy of The…
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A good friend of yours is visiting your neck of the woods. What cheesy souvenirs do you give them? Here are six ways I’d like to welcome someone to my wonderful (adopted) city, or say “thanks for visiting” as they leave. Clockwise from top-left: Toy Melbourne tram // Hook-turn mug // Melbourne skyline watercolour //…
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Around about the Christmas / New Year period, Mr B returned from a walk around the block bouncing with excitement because a new coffee window had opened up just around the corner from our house. It is by these small milestones that we measure out life’s joys. We love a good coffee window around these…
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There is a hand-drawn sign just inside the door of Kinfolk, a little social enterprise cafe on Bourke Street in Melbourne, and this is what it says. rules of kinfolk allow yourself to BE you…open up to receiving generously and giving generously… teach others with your smile, learn to let your heart sing, your soul…
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Do you like my new shopping bag? I sure do! If the design looks familiar, that’s because it’s a picture of my old typewriter that I once drew on a napkin, which later became the logo I use on this website (and elsewhere around the traps). I got the bag at Das T-Shirt Automat on…
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