Yesterday I took a drive out to Mount Macedon to investigate the possible existence of weird fruiting fungi. I can now confirm it exists. It was a much-needed trip, a distraction from the very recent passing of our beloved Lottie and to make good use of my last week of
I completely forgot to mention I have started a new watercolour course. I am doing Open Studio Watercolour at The Art Room (TAR), which is for people who have progressed beyond beginner and want to focus on things like composition, creative goals, colour theory and so forth. It goes for
It's been a little while between posts but fear not. As per my previous posts (hehe) I've been on leave from work and preoccupied with bulk cinemagoing. I'm only one-and-a-bit weeks into my three weeks off and it already feels like a huge mental
The past five days I've attended every session of the Fantastic Film Festival at Lido (excluding repeat screenings). I've been logging reviews of each film on my Letterboxd account. Now in our third year of attendance, one thing is certain and that is that this festival
Last night we headed into the city to see Joshua Ladgrove's show for Melbourne International Comedy Festival. This is an almost-annual event for us and is almost always accompanied by dinner at Nam Loong on Russell Street. Nam Loong (not to be confused with the other Nam Loong,
A little local adventure, not quite to plan, but with lots of good bits. The original plan was to ride my bike along the Maribyrnong River Trail in the upstream direction from Footscray Park to Brimbank Park and explore the trails there. I took my first wrong turn just after
Last year I decided to get into fungus. I bought a copy of Bruce Fuhrer's A field guide to Australian fungi, signed up to iNaturalist and started looking. I did not have to look far. My local area is absolutely bursting with weird, colourful, tenacious fungi. I love
5 April 2025 in Melbourne, featuring doktorb, Wet Electronics, Daydream Deluxe, Dark5lalom, Killawarra, Mada Yana (まだヤナ), JR / KS and Post Dive. A feature of the past few weeks at our place has been Adrian, also known as doktorb, rehearsing for this show. It was the brainchild of Benjamin Chesler who
Last night, my team (the Western Bulldogs) played Adrian's team (the Carlton Blues), making it the divorce round. Attending has become an annual event for us. We're still working through the circumstances in which this match would lead to our divorce. Whatever happens, one is faced
Last night we saw the Australian premiere of Death of a Unicorn, screening for the launch of this year's Fantastic Film Festival (If you want to know what I thought of the movie that's what Letterboxd is for). We discovered this festival back in 2023. We
My neighbour and I had pencilled in a ride for the Sunday just gone, a perfect late Summer day (some might call it early Autumn, but not I, not today). She had to cancel (she traded in her scooter–more on that later!) but I went out anyway. I rode
21 March 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Ferla, Hearts and Rockets and No Hoper. Sniff! The excellent Bench Press are ending. This was the first of their two farewell shows at The Old Bar. We were sad to miss out on tickets to the final-final show but this night'