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Botanic: Desert By The Duck Pond

Sunday, May 12, 2013

One of the last places you’d expect to find fine dining would probably the Royal Botanic Gardens. However, that’s exactly where I recently discovered the Botanic Gardens Restaurant. I knew that there were some cafes by the many entrances within the gardens, and a few in the grounds but I expected them to be your run-of-the-mill café. In fact, Botanic is quite a posh little restaurant, sitting beside the duck pond at the heart of the garden. Okay, it may not be the cheapest place around,... 

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Product Test – Ivo Chef’s Knife

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Ok, so there’s nothing wrong at all about being just a wee bit obsessed with knives. And I don’t mean that in a creepy kinda way. I just appreciate a good knife ok? So when I got the chance to play with the latest Ivo Chef’s Knife I was just a little bit pumped. (Even though I think my flattie was a little scared at my excitement…) I thought I’d put it through its paces a few times, and ended up pretty much using it for everything. Yup, it’s... 

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Jervis Bay: The Byron Bay of the South Coast

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Okay, so you might be thinking that the Jervis Bay area is full of old holiday houses and campsites, but not much else. But did you know that it’s actually one of the chosen getaways for Sydney-siders and Canberrians, and in the last five years the area has slowly transformed itself into the Byron Bay of the South Coast. In fact, during the summer months the population swells to three times its normal amount. And what’s not to love, with so much in common with the very popular Byron Bay; beaches, cafes, cheap... 

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Toulouse- Lautrec Exhibition: Painting and Parties in Paris

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

If I were to describe in a word the Henri Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition at the National Gallery in Canberra, it would certainly have to be ‘fun.’ Not just fun for those viewing the exhibition, but the obviously fun lifestyle of Lautrec and the rest of the bohemians in Paris. Paris, at the end of the 19th Century and the start of the following one, was going through a new movement (from Impressionism to Art Noveau and Post-Impressionism), and Lautrec was one of the key players. Although he was part of the new wave... 

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Getting all social – at the Gin Mill Social

Monday, April 1, 2013

Slide is going all prohibition on us on Thursday nights. You’ll enter via the side door (so the cops don’t notice) and after pulling back the curtain, you’ll enter their Gin Mill Social drinking den. There’s the usual Slide style entertainment – burlesque performers, magicians, a guy balancing chairs on his chin, and some slightly different ones – the monkey girl in the hoop hanging from the ceiling eating bananas comes to mind. Then there’s the band. Playing that style of music... 

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Art Express: Today’s Student, Tomorrow’s Artist or Designer

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Once again, I found myself back at the Hazelhurst Gallery (in Gymea) for the Art Express exhibition. It is a widely discussed exhibition highlighting the most exceptional artworks of selected Year 12 students from New South Wales. The selection shown at the Hazelhurst focused on finalists in the Sutherland and Hurstville areas. About five or six years ago I had checked out an Art Express Exhibition, but it was a much larger exhibition held at the Gallery of NSW, which showed the finalists from around the state. This... 

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She Runs

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So, a group of us did the Color Run a few weeks back and had an awesome time throwing and rolling around in paint dust, and now we’ve signed up to do an all women’s night run. What started in May 2012 as the first ever all-female night run in Australia, has been shortened to 10km in Centennial Park, and is now on a Saturday night. That means that we’re going to party after! Right, time for training… Info here.  Read More

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