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New Year’s?  blerh
Let’s avoid the sobriety (of watching fireworks in town with families and NO alcohol – blerg) and the transport troubles of going somewhere for a meal / drink.  Lets cook something wonderful and open a darn nice bottle of wine.
So we did.  We opened two in fact.  Starting with a Coldstream Hills Vintage [...]

I suspect that due to the four day Christmas weekend, there were no places to put the cats over Christmas (I tried in October!) so I didn’t get to Queensland this weekend.  I really should have been there this year as Mum has not been very well, and Dad is struggling to look after her [...]

Wednesday night we ventured to Lygon Street, east Brunswick to try out the fairly new-ish Baba.
Chef James Wilkinson is cooking there and I really enjoyed his food at Jimmy Watson’s some years ago.
The space is a bit sparse, and I expected it to be a bit busier on a Wednesday night – but it is [...]

Today was a total skive-off. JB has switched his day off at work this week and suggested we get “out and about” . I’ve wanted to go to Heronswood Homestead in Dromana for some time now. We happened across the companion cool climate garden for Diggers Seeds (heritage and heirloom seed savers) [...]