Suggestions, anyone? I was going to drive up the country today ....

Oh I wouldn't mind visiting there today, osso! (Or some Melbournian equivalent!) The weather, for starters, is just perfect for such an adventure!
Some dangly earrings, or a gee-gawish ring might be good!

Is the weather really bad? Absolutely stunning here today - but tomorrow is expected to be different.

Go down to the markets ?Victoria Markets (after buying some great jewelry, of course) and buy something unusual, something you haven't had before, go home and google some recipes.

I'm just on the way out to buy the fixings for some kangaroo carpaccio (I already have roo) that I want to try out before some overseas visitors next month. I'm quite looking forward to something completely different. I have friendly guinea pig coming over tonight for testing.

I'm trying to think up a particularly Ozzian dessert - any suggestions - as it's not mango season?

Down to St Kilda for some exotic cake - after jewelry session!

It's straight to the shops then. Don'y dally or you'll lose your momentum. You might check out that salon you've been eying (well a girl presumes...) and book a hair appointment for an hour and a bit after you've got there. Some kind of gastronomy indulgence is in order -- but take out in my opinion, to be savored at home in your clean house, with your new do, after you've browsed and purchased either a) a good book, or b) a good movie.

AND...this is important. You must give your very best smile to at least one stranger during the outing.

Quite a bit of it, RJB! Including a recent river trip on the Yarra by ferry, on a freezing cold day ... which nearly froze my friend & my faces & ears off! Brrrrr! Very interesting seeing the city from this persective, though.
Melbourne is growing like topsy (as they say). The suburban sprawl has gotten so extensive it's now actually quite hard to get to some of the far-flung places with don't have exactly wonderful public transport, which those of us in the more "inner" areas enjoy.

Here's a thought: take the No 96 tram from East Brunswick (Close to where I live) , via the city centre, to St Kilda (by the sea).

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.

Ha, you remember the St Kilda jewelry buying episode, margo!

Cake! Now there's something that I could be talked into!

Hmmmmm ..... an Oz dessert? Let me think about that one!

If it was me, msolga, (though you may have seen them recently) I'd check out the aquarium and the new museum. Is Salvador Dali still in town?

You're a mind reader, Joe.

I have actually been thinking "movie". There are quite a number of (what sound like) very good ones showing at the moment.
As for the haircut. Boy do I need that! But, of course my hairdresser is away on holiday (curses!) but I'm booked in for 2 weeks time, when she returns.



Right! Will do! And if I get myself into any trouble, I'll blame you!



You're right, of course! I must get moving soon or it will be A2King all day! Not a terribly bad thing, I know, but I feel today should be something else!

Not sure if Salavador's exhibition has ended or not, spike. If not, then close to finishing, I'd say. I will definitely check out the aquarium and the new museum soon. (Interested in doing that next time you're in Melbourne? Let me know & I'll join you.)

I think today will be a movie, some jewelry, coffee & cake ... and being blown about a lot in blustery streets in between!

Thanks for your suggestions, folks!

Yikes! 12:30 already!

Gotta get moving!

I shall return here & report back in full!

Have fun, olga.

Later.

A bit after 6 pm & I'm back home.

That was a good afternoon, thanks, Joe & all ...

Here's what I got up to:

Stop 1 .. Lunch on the run (to the movie) at (middle eastern) A1 Bakery in Sydney Road. Had 2 of their delicious spinach & cheese turn-overs, baked as I waited. They are quite wonderful & addictive!

Stop 2 .. Cinema Nova in Carlton. To see a new Oz film, Beautiful Kate. An Oz adaptation of a novel written by the same fellow who wrote Cutter & Bone (which I loved!). I thought it was a good film, but rather melancholy. Possibly a lighter choice might have been more the go for today? But never mind. I got to have one of those fantastic ice creams you can buy at the Nova. Today's choice: Tiramisu (sp?). Yum.

Stop 3 .. Feeling more than a bit melancholy after the film, I needed to cheer myself up! So I headed off to my very favourite little jewelery shop in Clifton Hill. OH joy, they were having a sale! So I bought some rather lovely & delicate earrings: a small garnet flower shape with a little silver bird dangling below. Loved them. And a quite fetching (I thought) Marcasite ring. (I have a great fondness & weakness for Marcasite.)

Stop 4 ...Checked out a few bookshops & restrained myself from major buys. Telling myself I had a pile just waiting to be read, so why buy more? Instead, purchased just one very practical, inexpensive cookbook.

So that was my afternoon.

After cancelling my trip up the country, the weather actually did not seem so bad, , at all. Something like 21 C degrees, but rather windy. I wondered if I should have gone, after all. But now, it is becoming very windy (as predicted)! I could be driving home in this right now. And it's predicted to get much worse.

Oh, I finally managed to contact my friend (who I couldn't reach this morning because of cell phone problems.) Heading over to her place soon for dinner.

- Report finished.

...and then dinner with a friend. Perfect.

Darling!! Miss ehBeth told you you were around, so I came back to see you...and I find that A2K has sustained yet another evolution...I have no idea where you are...but I was hoping you might see this. I'll try to figure out how to give you my email nstuff. I'd love to hear from you!! muuuaaah!!!

Lash!!!!!!

A sight for sore eyes! How are you?

(And I thought you came here to talk with me! )

Was that Ivan Passer (or did he just direct Cutter and Bone (aka Cutter's Way).. I read the book too, but don't remember who wrote it, and I can't go look it up since I see LASH is here.

Yaaaay!

Ah, written by Newton Thornburg.



Lash, you can PM - see at the top of the page, the blue band with your screen name and the word inbox - just click on inbox. Now all of our pms to each person are in chronological order (well, backwards order).

Yes, that's right. I haven't read any of his books, osso, but loved Cutter's Way (the film).

Beautiful Kate has been "transposed" to an Australian setting for the purposes of this film.

Review & excerpts from Beautiful Kate - about 1/2 way down the page:
http://able2know.org/topic/60234-9#post-3734205

I loved the movie (have seen it many times) and remember liking the book well too.

Will check out the link to Beautiful Kate..

I loved the movie, too, osso. A firm favourite for a long time.

I honestly had no idea that there was a book (& a well known writer) behind the film. I must see if I can find some of his books!