Melbourne stuff
It’s encouraging to hear community groups have been offered subsidised accomodation by Melbourne City Council. Not-for-profit organisations can gain a lot from having offices in the central business district, in much the same way that for-profit companies can gain. (PTUA makes use of a similar scheme via the Ross House Association.) Melbourne’s CBD in gaining ... [More]
On Saturday I went past a little house which I bet is affordable. You could say the location was convenient for transport — near Laverton station and the freeway. To be precise, it’s wedged Castle-like in a spot between the Werribee/Geelong railway line and the M1 — in fact the house is about as close ... [More]
I had a walk around Fed Square and Birrarung Marr on Friday. I was actually looking to get a pic of the Spamalot information booth, which had a big inflatable Monty Python foot on top of it. The kids could have had great fun animating it. Alas my plan went askew when I couldn’t find ... [More]
(Is there anything more dull than people talking about house prices?) Age (last Saturday, I think — can’t find it online) reported on the latest annual rise in median house prices around Melbourne — up 11.7% overall. Of the suburbs rising, many are those close to the city and/or with good access to transport and ... [More]
Promotions at Parliament Station: 3. Monday: Free fortune cookie advertising Mt Franklin water’s “Well of Positivity“; Tuesday: free sample of Ocean Spray Cranberries; Wednesday: Amnesty International Beggars who have asked for money: 1 in Swanston Street who sounded very scripted “Excuse me sir, we are homeless for a few days”, and as soon as being ... [More]
We went up to the snow on the weekend. Myself, the kids, cousin Leo, and cousin Leo’s dad Adrian. Five blokes on a snow trip. The great thing about going to Mt Donna Buang yesterday was there was plenty of snow. The bad thing about going to Mt Donna Buang yesterday was that lots of ... [More]
Ten points to the first person to guess what these are.
The Choir of Hard Knocks, made up entirely of homeless or disadvantaged people, played the Town Hall last night. But on Friday night they were singing in the Campbell Arcade (Degraves Street Subway), evidently opening an exhibit down there of portraits of the choir members. You could barely see or hear them amongst the big ... [More]
It’s Priscilla, Queen of Collins Street Pictured on Monday, workmen putting a giant shoe on top of a bus in Collins Street, for the launch of the Priscilla musical.
A few pictures from Friday. Bentleigh station, 9am. Collins Place, 9:30am — The fog had lifted a bit in the city, but it was still evident a few hundred metres up. Swanston Street, 1:30pm — By lunchtime it was quite hazy. Swanston Street, entrance to Chinatown, 7pm — In the evening it got cold and ... [More]
Last night was the coldest of the year so far, and I certainly felt it. The BOM weather monitoring station closest to me would be Moorabbin, and apparently it got down to 0.0 at 3:35am. Not as cold as Scoresby though, -1.3 at 7:32am. Certainly it was the first time this year I’ve found ice ... [More]
From the 1st of July, pubs and clubs will be smoke-free. No more stinky hair after a night out. No more washing all your clothes the next day. So! Who’s for a drink? Let’s hit the pubs! (In preparation, the local RSL built a smoking area, which looks like an outdoor courtyard, but is almost ... [More]