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Gertrude Street blogged and a beautiful new blog discovered 7 Oct 2008 | 10:50 pm
I came across the gorgeous blog of Melbournienne Lucy Feagins. She has done a great job blogging Gertrude St. The beautiful photo of Amor y Locura above is hers. I find so few blogs that I really w...
Collingwood blue collar crim burgles disgraced white collar feller, then stabs local in the back 13 Dec 2007 | 01:15 am
Collingwood man Richard John Lovett (more recently of Bundoora) burgled he whom the press are carefully describing as ‘disgraced millionaire businessman’ Steve Vizard’s then Toorak mansion while Steve...
Have you seen a large python? 12 Dec 2007 | 11:58 pm
If so, please return to its owner, or ring 000. It’s 3m long. It’s as thick as an arm. It escaped from a balcony at Tim Marshall’s Noone St, Clifton Hill apartment on the 9th, where it had lived wit...
Slow food market and Abbotsford Convent Open Day Today 24 Nov 2007 | 01:47 pm
The marvellous slow food market is on at the Convent today — get a rhubarb tartlett from the rhubarb lady, a strong coffee from Lentil as Anything, a loaf of bread from the bakery, and stock up on unb...
Handsome Steve’s House of Refreshment 21 Nov 2007 | 11:50 pm
The Age has reviewed a bar that I like, the Abbotsford Convent’s Handsome Steve’s House of Refreshment. I never seem to get there though. This could be the prompter.
Moroccan warehouse clearance ends today 17 Nov 2007 | 01:11 pm
There are some wonderful homeware places for the well-heeled in Abbotsford proper in addition to all the lifestyle supermarkets in Bridge Road. There’s Orient Express, where you can buy Asian people’...
Dight’s Falls to be rebuilt 17 Nov 2007 | 01:52 am
Update, 18 November: Here’s an article from The Age which suggests that the Channel Deepening Project may see toxic sludge disturbed by the dredging wash back up the 22 km long tidal estuary of the Ya...
Whyte & Whitlock sell Terminus in favour of Yarra Glen Grand 11 Nov 2007 | 07:43 pm
Very sad news. The owners of The Terminus have sold, and have bought the Yarra Glen Grand from a guy who was born in it, and whose family has been running it for 77 years. Judging by the photo of the ...
Collingwood man opens door. Four men in black shoot him. Scary men too, by the sounds of it. 11 Nov 2007 | 07:06 pm
I have to say, Wellington St between Johnston St and Gertrude St is not a nice place. In fact, it’s the closest to a slum I know of in Melbourne (see pic of a side street off Wellington St). At twent...
Panama Dining Room 11 Nov 2007 | 06:08 pm
I do like the Panama Dining Room on Smith St. Used to be a pool hall, when the floor below was a Latin Band venue — The Stage — which used to go off, and where I had some of my best evenings. Now The ...
