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Arts Centre Melbourne Winter Season Giveaway

The Arts Centre Melbourne’s new Winter season begins this year on July 26. Running for three weeks, there will be over a dozen events featuring theatre, dance, puppetry, music and digital installations. The theme this year is Arts, science and technology. The Arts Centre chose the theme because: We look to science and technology to [...]

Around the traps

I don’t usually take my kids to blogging events, they’ve been gifted with my husband’s hyperactivity and I’d quite like to be invited back to places. There was the time things got a little ‘Thunderdome’ in the ball pit at a bloggers event – thankfully one of the other kids belonged to a former work [...]

Fading music memory

I collected the ticket stubs, I bought the t-shirts, I poured over the magazines that coincided with their tours. I don’t remember throwing these things away but they’re long gone and I’d probably be okay with that if my memory wasn’t fading away too. There are so many gigs, concerts and festivals that time has [...]

A sheer issue of gym wear

Apparently athletic apparel giant Lululemon has had to recall shipment of some of its yoga pants this week due to an issue of ‘sheerness’. Approximately 17% of women’s bottoms (bottoms being pants) in stores are said to be affected and I’m suddenly feeling quite grateful I haven’t saluted the sun lately. When it comes to [...]

Festivals with kids

Having scored a few tickets to a Melbourne Food and Wine Festival event, I made the dubious decision to attend with my kids. Despite the event offering activities that catered to children, you just never know quite what you’re going to get with these things. Will there be toilets? Enough room for my kids to [...]

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Giveaway

The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival kicks off this Friday and to celebrate I’m giving away a double pass to one of the festival highlights Put Victoria On Your Table (PVOYT) Cellar Door and Artisan Market. Held at the Como House and Gardens in South Yarra and sponsored by IGA Victoria, there will be some [...]

White Night Melbourne

Originally conceived in Paris in 2002, White Night or Nuit Blanche is not translation for THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE!! but a dusk ’til dawn showcase of art and culture. Catching a train into an estimated crowd of 100,000 thousand people, only to discover it was closer to 300,000 thousand was a little eye-watering but [...]

Sound City

I was lucky enough to catch Dave Grohl’s documentary on analog music studio, Sound City last night. Birthplace to recordings After the Gold Rush, Rumors and Nevermind – it’s a tribute to an iconic recording studio and a reflection on the changing face of the music industry. Grohl was supposedly inspired to make the film [...]

A Big Day Out Guide for under 30s

I haven’t been to a Big Day Out in 13 years but my mid-life crisis and I really enjoyed ourselves. There wasn’t much aggression, and I would gladly pay $165 dollars again if it results in twelve hours off from my kids. I read a guide to the Big Day Out for over-35s – I [...]

Not in my backyard

Having a mortgage is a lot of fun in Melbourne.  Sometimes when you complain about it, people tell you to move further out or stop buying plasma televisions and that’s really helpful. I’ve been trying to devise different ways to entertain my kids for free lately because quite frankly once the mortgage repayment comes out [...]