What would you do next if you were at the top of your game in a Melbourne restaurant? Open another restaurant? Get even more busy? Well the fellow who runs this place got it right I reckon. He has a restaurant in Albany which he opens when he feels like it. Maybe he’ll open the [...]
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I’m tired. My eyes are barely open. They feel sandy. And I feel quite lethargic, reclining as I am my head at an odd angle to gain the cushion, my body twisted so I can keep the laptop plugged in and lie down at the same time. This can’t be good for my spine. I [...]
Last weekend I spent a quite a bit of time at the Perth Writers Festival. I got to host a couple of children’s/young adult sessions which are my faves because a) the books are short and I can read them quickly – especially the picture books and b) I love teenage fiction. This year I [...]
I went to see Nostalgia. A Japanese production which opened last night along with the Perth International Arts Festival. It was in a space created within the Perth Convention Centre and it is an excellent production. It is not the easiest of theatre experiences. It is all in Japanese – apart from the titles to [...]
I don’t think I’ve raved about a podcast on this blog before but seeing as I’ve bored all my immediate circle with tales from this podcast, it’s your turn. This American Life is a Chicago Public Radio program that Ira Glass (pictured) created back in 1995. It is brilliant. I wait impatiently all week for [...]
For our anniversary lunch, Groover took me out to Cape Clairault, Yallingup. OMG the food is to die for. See menu. This was Groover’s starter. The food is not cheap. The starters were about $20 each. They were perfect. Tempura prawns with zuchini flowers and peach slices. Oh and our starters weren’t on the menu [...]
Here’s the massive coincidence. The last two books I’ve read have been The Islands by Di Morrissey and Careless in Red by Elizabeth George. (I know I’m supposed to have been reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga – the Booker Prize-winning novel – but I just can’t get into it) Now on the face [...]
Go and see this movie. You might think it is some worthy foreign flick but it is not. It’s gritty, inspiring, pacey, uplifting and shocking all at the same time. If a film could be a pageturner – this would be. Compared to the last Hollywood flick I’ve seen – The Dark Knight – well, [...]
When you pick up a Di Morrissey book you are not expecting high literature, or even medium-high. You are expecting a rollocking saga with beautiful women and unreachable men set in an exotic location with a nod to the local culture. In this novel that is exactly what you get. Young Catherine, off on a [...]
You know I liked the Twilight series, so it should come as no surprise to learn I went to the movie. In fact I went with three other mums in Dippity’s class – with the four girls who sat a few rows in front of us. Sit with their mothers? You’ve got to be joking. [...]
