Category: The Neighbourhood
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Indigenous Plants
One of the goals for our garden is to include plantings to enhance our local biodiversity. To this end, I’ve been doing some research. I found several helpful resources: Once I had a reasonable idea of the main plants in our area, I took notes as I walked and ran to see how they grow.…
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Walking
Several years ago, one of my university assignments was to do a neighbourhood exegesis. This involved a two-hour walk around the neighbourhood, with a list of questions to help me notice important details. A couple of years later, I did a subject called Mission in the Australian Context. The major assignment was to do an…
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What I Love About Our New Neighbourhood
We have always lived in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, but I have always loved being near the ocean, and we didn’t want to do the full sea change thing; I still love the city, so we decided to move bayside. We bought an apartment off the plan and have been renting 500m from the…
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Let me ask you this
Let me ask you this.Do you also think that beauty exists for some fabulous reason? And, if you have not been enchanted by this adventure— your life—what would do for you? To Begin With, The Sweet Grass by Mary Oliver Superb Fairy Wrens were crowned the Australian 2021 bird of the year, and I can…