Happy New Year to the faithful & the unfaithful, to the movers & the shakers, the sad & lonely, to those who get it done & those who want it done. May you appreciate this is all a gift that one day is taken away and passed on like a baton in a relay that you wish could be held onto just a little bit longer. xx

From 1999 a rarity called Happy New Year. By the time New Year rolled around in 1999/2000 we were in hospital with a one day old baby girl, our third. We briefly wished each other a happy one and then went back to our dreaming.

From Paul Kelly’s self-described ‘mongrel memoir’ ‘How To Make Gravy’ pg 139-140

"Everybody Wants To Touch Me’ is sometimes read as a riff on celebrity. That seems to be Sydney cabaret singer Paul Capsis’s take on it on his album of the same name. Medusa-haired Deborah Conway, Melbourne singer-songwriter and mother of three, knows a little about celebrity and pregnancy both. She fronted a band called Do-Re-Mi in the eighties and had a big hit with a song called ‘Man Overboard’, featuring the memorable lines ‘Your pubic hairs on my pillow, your stubble rings the sink.’ Her shapely posterior was also famous, full-framed and proudly bare on big Bluegrass Jeans billboards nationwide, with the tagline ‘Get yours into Bluegrass’.

Do-Re-Mi functioned as a collective - a shaky construct in pop music at the best of times - and used language such as ‘ideologically unsound’ (the predecessor of ‘politically incorrect’) in their band meetings. Deborah, with her ...

I love baked goods & I had been meaning for a long time to try out Zelda’s Bakery https://www.instagram.com/stories/z_e_l_d_a_bakery/3429100459686607415?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=eGNtcHg1emdmM2du
but every time I was in the Ripponlea area Zelda was closed. And then i heard on the grapevine that Zelda Bakery had made a playlist of local musicians work & was handing over a cinnamon sugar scroll to any of us who turned up. I turned up & it was so worth the detour. Incredibly delicious baked goods are definitely my bag baby. But if you’re planning a trip keep in mind Maaryasha opens her store on Wednesdays & Fridays only. Bon appetite

What a fantastic show tonight at the State. You really rocked Natural Woman - no cheap distraction required.
Some snazzy outfit changes too!! Loved it.