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For Melbourne dat is. Get em early, I think the Corner is too small a venue for these guys and I expect them to sell out.

Ladytron, Thurs 2nd October

Hey peeps, Kat is performing at the Omeda [Organisation of Middle Eastern Dance in Australia] Festival next weekend, and the opening night Gala thang is on next Friday, and was wondering if anyone would like to join me & Jeremy in heading down? It’s at the Aegean Greek Restaurant, 19 Brunswick St Fitzroy, and costs $45 for a 3 course meal + tea & coffee, plus show of many exotic dance styles! I have never seen Kat perform before and it seems like a good opportunity. Doors open 7, meals served from 7.30, and show starts at 8pm. If anyone would like to join us we need to book our table tomorrow morning, so let me know asap!

The info for the whole festival is here: http://www.omeda.org.au/files/2008medfestival.pdf

Youtube only seems to want to accept one of my pyrophone videos, waa. It was really cool, and it was definitely worth heading down.

We also had a scrumptious dinner at a Cambodian Restaurant, Bopha Devi, my main meal was a wonderful authentic fermented fish dish with raw veggies - I was in heaven to have something like this in a restaurant! Nom nom nom.

We have a consensus of most people being able to make it down tonight, to the 6.30pm performance, however if it’s really awesome, I am open to watching it twice, with dinner in between, and possible spa afterwards at our place. If lots of people are running late however, we have the option of all going to the 8.30 performance alone

Last night took me out to dinner to commemorate the anniversary of our first date. We, like Tim & Daisy, have two anniversaries, and it was fitting that for the first date anniversary we went somewhere special. Quanjude has recently opened a new Melbourne branch, and is of one of the most famous restaurants in China. Being a lover of duck, it was high on my list of must go to restaurants, once I became aware of its’ existence - a mere 150 metres or so from The Aerie.

Needless to say, the food was exemplary, and may expound further, given as he is to food reviews But I will say, this is the first time I’ve received a certificate for a meal: all Peking Duck sets are issued with a “Commemoration Card of Quanjude Roast Duck”; our duck was number 115201446!

Also, I am not feeling too terrible this morning, and as there was a small amount of wheat and dairy in the meal [not to mention half a bottle of champagne], this is a pleasing development, as my body appears to be healing more and more. I’ve lost still more weight too, and am happily on target for 80 kg within a few more months - WiiFit is certainly helping there too!

I am so happy to have found my life partner. Here’s to many more years as good as the first, my love.

*kiss*

Was anyone else maybe interested in going to see the Pyrophone? I saw it on the news, it looked pretty impressive. We are booked Thu and Fri, so that leaves tonight [Wed] Sat or Sunday. Any more hands up?

No, really!

Well, bits of them. Every night from 20-29 June there is a flamey musical performance thing called the “Pyrophone” down at Docklands, as well as another something flamey called the “Fire Garden” - more info over here but basically could be a fun outing, maybe including some dinner down there - I’ve never actually ventured down to docklands :p - if anyone is interested can you please comment to vote for a night to go? I think it would be a fun group outing!

The pyrophone performances are at 6.30 and 8.30, btw

In about 3 months, is World Car-Free day. I just came across a page full of quotes, looking up one specific one to post to a friend who’s had a very near miss from a terrible driver. These are some of the other quotes I liked:

A city that outdistances man’s walking powers is a trap for man. ~Arnold Toynbee

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. ~Grant Peterson

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: “With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas,” or, “They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.” ~U Thant, speech, 1970

The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. ~James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960

Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~Author Unknown

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~Leslie Grimutter
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I have to say the magic of the Monday adventure into the rural pockets so close to the Melbourne CBD has given me renewed sense of hope and joy. I have some places to go on my ebike which are a perfect distance, and a lovely journey. I will continue to encourage more walking and cycling

Well it’s been a fun and sociable weekend though not for great long periods of time, with and ’s bday drinks at Polly we only managed to catch 1/2 hour of *shakes tiny fist* however the music at Blitz was great and got his dance on for about a solid hour and a half.

is also over from Perth til Tuesday and as I’ve just got my working electric bike back [after about 6 months of asking for it...!] I have proposed a cycling, eating & exploring Adventure for tomorrow!

This Adventure is to somewhere I’ve wanted to visit for some time, CERES - The Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies - http://www.ceres.org.au - up in East Brunswick, where there is much organic food goodness and it’s only 8 or so km from the Melbourne CBD. As has brought a nice folder bike with him, and has already ridden to places as far away as Coburg, I felt this would be a nice outing.

I am proposing we should leave the CBD around 11.30amish, give or take a bit, allowing us to reach CERES hopefully around 12 - 12.30, barring any hold-ups. We plan to have luncheon at the Ceres Cafe [>pdf of menu] which looks scrummy, and I’d also like to visit the Nursery and at least one of the farm areas. Unfortunately the Bikeshed is only open on Fridays and Saturdays. There seems to be a variety of things to check out that are open 7 days, so I’m sure we won’t be bored!

As far as route goes, I propose going up via Nicholson St, and returning via the Merri Creek trail. If anyone wants to join us cycling up, please let me know asap, as that may make our lunch time a little later start if we’re socialising more along the way or changing our route. Otherwise you can get a tram easily and Ceres has how-to-get-there information here, and here is the Google map.

If you can read this, you’re invited to join us! So please do if you’re free and would like to catch up for a yummy organic lunch.

Okey dokey,

after asking a few different people, it is looking like dinner at Hede Arashi Kushiyaki Bar is a good choice for Sunday-night-before-Monday-public-holiday socialising. Still open to other options but have been recommended Hede by a couple of people and they are open Sunday evening.

Arashi Kushiyaki Bar is located at:

41 Courtenay Place
Wellington
04-801 9818

We are looking at 7pm to be gathering there. Any other options are welcomed for after-goings if there is anything to go to, and would love to see anyone there who would like to come down! Hands up for likely attendees would be good in case we look like a reasonable size group and may want to book a table.

Wonderful to meet so many people last night, by the way! ^_^