From the yearly archives: 2018
I got my recipe for a sour dough spelt loaf largely from this book which I purchased at the Red Beard Bakery in Trentham. I also found a big bag of wholemeal spelt flour there, but you don’t need to travel all that way as it’s easy to buy spelt flour in Melbourne. I was [...]
I’ve been baking bread for over a year now. The picture above is of my latest effort; two basic sourdough loaves and a spelt loaf. The smell of baking bread is wonderful throughout the house, the loaves look terrific and taste delicious. This picture below is of my San Francisco Sour Dough, a famous sour [...]
I went back to the Triennial just before it closed after a first visit that I’ve already blogged about here. I went again specifically to see these amazing dresses that friends and family had raved about. They were a bit hard to find; that’s my only criticism of the exhibition, it was badly signposted. This [...]
I’ve had a mixed start to the year with my reading. Here are the books that I’ve read so far, in the order that I read them. The Odyssey, translated Emily Wilson I read this in January while I was with the family on holiday, during a week away in Canberra and Sydney. I loved [...]
I visited the Top Art exhibition at Federation Square on 6 April and can report that it’s well worth a visit. Here’s a link to the NGV website explaining the background and including photos of all of the work. It’s all by Year 12 students completed in 2017 and some of it is really, really [...]
