New Zealand: A Cafe!

I think I had something nice here, but what was it? It was in a pretty nice little arcade, lots of inside plants and a view that you can't see in these photos or gardens behind. Incidentally my friend above has come to Melbourne for a month which is all kinds of exciting, there'll be more on that later.

The Joys of the Australian Summer

A sunny family holiday down at Point Lonsdale, it was very windy. There was also tiny bugs everywhere in the air. This is in some sort of swampy area behind the township. I happen to be wearing a jacket I have had since primary school, what of it. Actually those are pretty old shoes too, they're my horse riding boots, I have had many over the years and those were the most recent ones. I think I may have got them around 12 or 13 years of age at most!

Photobooth

Well that was fun! I have never in my life done the photobooth with friends, amusing photos thing in my life. Now I'm a complete person, be proud of me. This was in the photobooth just outside Flinders Street for any Melbournians out there.

Donna Tartt

In other news I have finished the long book I was reading, it was over 550 pages. It was pretty engaging though, it was the Little Friend by Donna Tartt, author of the Secret History which is also very good. I most strongly recommend them both, they are worth the length. I am now reading the Unicorn by Iris Murdoch who is a very cool lady indeed. I studied some of her philosophy in year twelve, now I'm sampling her literature, she has written a lot of novels so I have a lot to read if I like it, and I think I will. I might watch the film Iris with Judi Dench and Kate Winslet soon.

Dame Iris Murdoch

Ernest Biéler

I only recently discovered Ernest Biéler's work. I think it's wonderful, I don't know very much about his life though. I love the hair on the ladies above and below.

New Zealand: Cemetary

The first New Zealand post!

This is an old cemetery in the heart of Auckland, we went there basically as soon as we got there because it was right near where we got off the sky bus to meet our friend. It was pretty cool although it also seemed to be part of an area where a lot of suspicious types hung out, and dare I say it  at risk of confusing any foreign readership but a bit a bit "derro"

You can see I am dragging along my suitcase

Ruby who lives in NZ

Underground Cinema: Gosford Park

All the staff and actor people looked incredible

A taste of the interior

 Last year I went to a wonderful event run by underground cinema. It was 1930s aristocracy themed the Melbourne Victorian mansion Rippon Lea. It was renovated in the 20s or so and a deco ballroom and pool area was added, in short an absolutely perfect location. The movie shown was fittingly Gosford Park. 

What made it an amazing evening was the addition of a murder mystery game at the beggining, except in this one you could go around the house and interview the suspects who were all quite convincing actors. I wore an original 30s dress I got ages ago but had never actually worn. I also wore a fur coat. Maybe I will post proper photos of that dress later to show. I also spent a very long time attemtping to do my hair. I think it turned out reasonably. I'm only sad I missed the more recent one which was Hillbilly themed! These photos all belong to the underground cinema, they are all from their flickr.


I've been trying to get my friends to go to Rippon Lea for a picnic for about a year now! The gardens are lovely, they're quite large and there's a sort of cave and a multi-story rotunda. I went there and a lot of places like that a fair bit with my parents when I was younger. It would be a lovely place to get married.

This is the terrifying victim's corpse, it looked so realistic!

This isn't a brilliant photo of me (far left) but the other option was far worse

There was a lot of fur about

The ballroom where the movie was screened

They had all the servants as well as the family

Almost One Year Ago

Pink hair that is pink no longer

My friends made me a pipe-cleaner tiara

This feels like an age ago. These are my friends photos, not in any way mine but I did change them a bit.