Adventures away from home

It’s been all quiet on the blog front while Mr A and I had a long weekend in Melbourne to see PJ Harvey (who was fantastic, by the way). We arrived to 16 degrees Celsius (which felt quite crisp after the 37 degrees Brisbane had last Wednesday!) and sparrows – we never see sparrows in our home town anymore as they seem to have been chased out of their habitat by a bigger bird called an Indian Mynah.

As well as catching up with friends and checking out the shops, we spent a bit of time wandering around like tourists and noticing things we hadn’t paid attention to before – like this delightful bronze owl sculpture on Elizabeth Street called ‘Children’s Tree’ by Tom Bass, which has been there since 1963!

While we were waiting for a tram to the Chapel Street Bazaar, we admired these bright gardens in the centre of town – if someone can please remind me what the spiky plants in the background are, that would be terrific. No special vintage fabric finds for me at the bazaar, but I did manage to track down a lovely vintage skirt pattern (coming soon to Saturday Special).

And there was more inspiration from nature with these maple leaves in the water feature outside the National Gallery of Victoria, where we saw the extraordinary Mad Square exhibition of German Expressionist art (and escaped a warm 33-degree day). Autumn leaves in the middle of summer – only in Melbourne!

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