Despite not being a crime fiction reader and having read none of her books, I have been following Tara Moss' blog/twitter for a while now. I think I must have read about her in some vaguely feminist context and added her to my following lists. So I heard about her book directly through her blogIt is an interesting book, part memoir and part ( Read more... )

I am super happy to report that a new vegetarian restaurant has taken up residence in Acland St. Consider it a Christmas present from St Kilda, something sorely missing since the departure of Soul Mama (the original and Mk II ( Read more... )

A couple of nice places in the CBD, neither exclusively veg*n.

The first is Nam Loong, a cheap and cheerful small Chinese place on Russell St, up near QV. The first thing you notice about it is the impressive front of buns.


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Here are some things I have done since my last chronicling of entertainment and related activities (about 6 weeks ago).

* Went to a free meditation session as part of Mindful in May. Had an interesting discussion and thoughts afterwards about the difference between "mindfulness" and what might be called "attention" (I can't remember if our guru ( Read more... )