From St Kilda TodayDaily photos of St Kilda a beachside suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Archives for June, 2010
It was a cold night andthese two giants huffed up the windowand impatiently waited for their owner to buy honey.No one was coming inand no one was coming out.
The elwood general store is 6.To quietly celebrateI 'saged' the store on sunday nightwith this smudge stick that our smudge stick man gave me.I used the whole stickit took about an hourand I even set the smoke alarm off!!The smudge stick man said to me, " take this smudge stickit is for you- I bet if youclear the energy and you'll find yourselfreally busy in here."I often smudgeand decided to use the gifted stick last nightand guess what!Today we had the busiest day in the store the busiest day in the tea house-it was really packed full we were run ...
a Sweet and Happy Birthday to you Anthony Elliott, Tony, Tone, Andoni. x
Paula Havelberg from Port Melbourne is developing her business growing and selling seedlings around Port Phillip via cargo bike.Here she is preparing for the 'Eat Your Balcony' event that will be held at the Port Phillip EcoCentre on Saturday 26 June from 12.30 pm. Booking essential. Click here http://www.ecocentre.com/node/80
Security and 'dark patches' were raised as issues by residents in the consultation on Garden City Reserve.The new lights that have been installed are partly powered by the energy generated by the solar panels on the roof of the Sandridge Trugo Club. The new lights are more discreet in appearance, and cast a good light on the path.The green light poles in the foreground will be re-used at other sites where similar poles have rusted in harsher environments.In an earlier phase of the project the path was widened to further strengthen its importance as a shared pedestrian and cycle route ...
Todaylittle Bellafilled the hand basin in the tea houseand watched the water run down the draina couple of times,in the most curious of ways.It's a shame there is a drought and we had to coax her to stopas her fascination at gravitywas gorgeous.When her mother and I were talking up at the counter,Bella sweetly interrupted us holding her hand out,"Look!" Bella said.And there in her hand,her little tiny handwas an egg.Her mother and I gaspedand looked at the 11 eggs left in the opened packof Bull frog gully biodynamic eggs."Oh!", her mother said"Lets put that back in the boxand close ...
From Melbourne Today"Think of Michael Blamey as your visual prompt for Melbourne." - The Guardian
From Melbourne Today"Think of Michael Blamey as your visual prompt for Melbourne." - The Guardian
I have been sick with the flu..blahhh!am dosing up on olive leaf extractastragalus tea with rose hip and cinnamonkali mur- Glandular tonic tissue saltsmiso soupplenty of waterand plenty of rest.I hope you are all keeping well and warm as the winter chill sets in.
From St Kilda TodayDaily photos of St Kilda a beachside suburb of Melbourne, Australia
From St Kilda TodayDaily photos of St Kilda a beachside suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Tony, the Elwood General of the General store has moved housewhich was a massive job.The office is still being put togetherhence we have not been about the blogosphere.Instead here are some seeds, collected and plantedjust before all that lovely rain.Broad bean, beet root, rainbow chard, coriander, cos,rocket, spring onions and some random ones, how exciting.Tony had to leave behind his veggie garden at his old placeand has enough room to start a new one, all be it mostly in large potsas he just discovered the soil is not very deep. Although he may make some raised beds.' I will find ...
Took the opportunity of the long weekend to do things in Melbourne, and tried out the new bike share scheme. Slightly anxious at first about whether and how everything would work - but it did. The verdict?The bikes are extremely comfortable to ride with three gears, lights front and back and a place to prop a briefcase or basket at the front. The wheels are well protected so there is no danger of getting clothes caught in the chain. We took helmets with us. There was quite a bit of interest in the bikes as we made our way around. ...
Saturday's Deakin lecture on climate change focused on cities, recognising that cities must change as they generate around 70% of all greenhouse gases and use about 75% of the world's energy.All speakers agreed that there was an urgent need to densify the city to reduce environmental impact. The debate was more about how this was to be achieved.It set me to thinking about Port Melbourne and the change it has been undergoing for the past twenty years. Imperfect though that change process may have been, Port Melbourne has many of the attributes cited by the speakers as important for ...
Heritage Victoria has a podcast to download from their website. It is a guided walk along a few interesting St Kilda streets looking at buildings, mostly houses. The walk is not strenuous and takes about an hour. If you do take the walk, choose a nice day for a better experience. For photographers, a sunny winter afternoon is not a great time to take the walk and take snaps.If you can't take the walk, download the podcast and take a look at my photos of the various buildings you see. The comments are mine, mostly based on what is in ...
The City of Port Phillip is supported by Road Safe Inner Melbourne in deploying this speed trailer around the municipality at locations where residents have raised concerns about traffic speeds.It is currently working on Todd Road near the Boulevard, where the display shows that the vehicle which has just passed was travelling at 57 kph. It seems to be news to some drivers that 50 kph is the default speed limit unless otherwise signed.
The development at 15 Beach St, designed by SJB, was a finalist in the Port Phillip Design and Development Awards in the category Best new development of 5 units or more.The edited citation says:'The proposal is reflective of the terrace typology that characterises large parts of Beaconsfield Parade. The rhythm is expressed architectually through the vertical massing where steel panels are used to notate the dwelling entrances, enhancing sense of address and legibility. ... The apartments to each end of the devleopment activate the corners. The individual dwellings clearly connect with the streetscape, each with an entry at street ...
The scoreboard at Lagoon Oval has just had a welcome paint job. It had looked tatty for a long time.
Riding into town, I observed the aftermath of an accident between two trams on the city side of the Montague stop near the tram depot around 11am.It appears passengers were shaken up with ambulance officers in attendance.As a consequence, many people were walking into town.see http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/trams-collide-at-melbourne-city-depot-20100608-xsb7.html for more.
I have a confession to make. When En Izakaya debuted with 3 stars in Cheap Eats this year I didn't understand what the fuss was all about, but that was because I thought it was a different place on Carlisle Street. Some foodie local I am - woops!Clearly I am the only person that didn't know the location, because rocking up late on a Wednesday night without a booking was a little naive. It was packed. But the waiter had the good grace not to roll his eyes at me and instead took my number, shooed us out the door ...
This is the last house in St Kilda to be still privately owned. Quite nice it is too in an understated manner. The owner tends the gardens personally and the house looks to be well maintained. I have had communication with the owner some time ago about outside advertising in St Kilda Road. It won't be a surprise to any of you that both he and I thought badly of the crude and cheap advertising.Our friend Vik and I sat outdoors at a cafe in St Kilda Road having lunch one day and as she spent a good bit of ...
The most lovely artist Bella Cookeis a reader of this very blog.She left a comment one day about hanging some of her art workand after a quick call to the storewas in the very next weekinstalling these fab table tennis bats...look how they match the tea pots-How great is that?!Just great, like a fast volley in a game of ping pong..hmmm wait on a second.......!P.S ( click on her name for a link to her blog)
Ok. So what is a picture of the St Kilda Town Hall doing on Port Focus?Well, as I made my way to the Town Hall this evening for yet another meeting, the Town Hall seemed to be saying 'look at me, look at me'. So I felt compelled to take this photograph.
