Night of the Notables

This is one of the views from the Docklands Library. It was also the venue for the inaugural ‘Night of the Notables’, hosted by CBCA Vic at the library. The room was full to bursting with Children’s Book people. I caught the train and tram in, and...

Australasian Quilt Show

The coloured pieces in this quilt are one-inch squares. (yes, quilting still speaks the language of inches)For scale, refer the conveniently visible thonged foot behind the quilt.It’s hard to fathom the hours spent planning, cutting, sewing and quilting this...

Wild Pa

So, I was about to go out the back door when the front doorbell rang.How exciting to ‘meet’ Wild Pa for real! Is he not beautiful?So many stories beyond the story here …

Artfully so

We are members of the NGV but somehow we seem to wait until the final weeks of most exhibitions before we get to see them.There are two more weeks to see this amazing exhibition with Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei.It was as huge as it was gobsmacking.Some of the images...

Nightlife

Every year we meet twice with a group of friends – for nearly 30 years now. The first gathering is a weekend away with our families. When we began there were two children. Now they are all adults, all 14 of them and these days there are always extras. It’s...

Up Warburton way

We spent the weekend in and around Warburton, east of Melbourne. Friday night continued the rain of Friday day and brought with it power outage. The power outage took not only our electricity but also our water (electric pump for water from tanks) – a minor...