Category: The Neighbourhood
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Some More Local Outdoor Art
A couple of weeks ago I posted about some of the street art and graffiti in our local area. I’ve since captured a few more examples of public art. I think most of this is commissioned to prevent graffiti.
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Neighbourhood Street Art and Graffiti
I’m walking every street in Brighton, Elwood and Gardenvale. Here’s a selection of the street art I’ve passed on my wanderings. Street Art is often commissioned here to reduce the amount of ugly graffiti and tagging. Do you like street art? Do you have much where you live?
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Cool Bloggers Walking Club – Week 4
Elisabeth has challenged us to do 10 minutes of intentional movement every day in October. Here’s the details from my fourth week. Wednesday October 22nd: 20 min easy run, it started raining a couple of minutes into the run. I changed T-shirts and put on a coat to walk to personal training for my 45…
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Wildflower wander, Green Waste, New Running Schedule
Yesterday I went on a guided wildflower wander at the Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve. Our council has put on a series of these wanders through various reserves in the area. This one was not far from me and situated in the reasonably new Wildflower Meadow. The guide was involved in the building and planting of…
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List #25: Neighbourhood A-Z
I started this little project in April 2024 during Elisabeth’s CBWC, but partway through I got a stress fracture in my foot and couldn’t complete it. I’ve finally got round to finishing it off. Anzac Hostel. Now, the Anzac Campus of Star of the Sea Girls School. Originally, the Kamesburgh Mansion, the house was converted…
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First Beach Day and It’s Still Spring!
A few years ago, we ended the summer, and I realised I hadn’t swum in the ocean once. Admittedly, we hadn’t had the warmest summer, but there were some days that I could have gone to the beach but didn’t. Most of that was just laziness and forgetting how refreshing it can be to swim…
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Good Things Friday
We had another week of warm winter weather here. In fact Australia collectively had its warmest winter day on record this week which probably isn’t a good thing. The Kimberley’s registered temperatures were over 41C, but our top temperature for the week was 23C which is close to perfect in my opinion. FRI 23.8.2024 SAT…
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A Bayside Walk
To get my walking back up to a reasonable distance after my stress fracture, I’ve been taking some time on the weekends to go for longer walks. On Saturday, I walked towards Black Rock from home along the beach and the bay trail. I had a time crunch, as I’d booked into a talk at…
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How did I go? – The Cool Bloggers Walking Club
At the start of April, Elisabeth invited us to join her, walking for ten minutes each day for the month. Since I almost always walk or run for ten minutes every day I figured this would be easy and I decided to join all the other cool kids. Ambitiously I decided to pair it with…
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Third Places
This week I’ve encountered the concept of “third places” three times. The first in a newspaper article arguing that what makes European cities so good are their third places and that in general new world cities and towns lack these places. In Australia third spaces have been neglected, prioritising the home. In the article, Melbourne…