there was ice

the first ice, on my windscreen this morning. it was kinda brrr... but blue sky-ey out there. i think it might be winter after all. :)

after dark at the ngvi

a few of us swing kids met up at the state art gallery to listen to some tunes played by frankie wants out. it was part of the art deco exhibition. i arrived a little late and missed the flappers performing a charleston. every few weeks they change the lineup, so i'm hoping to get back there in a couple of weeks. some fantastic music was played and some crazy dancing - mostly because it was pretty fast and i wore shoes with no slick, damn me. my knees are not thanking me at the moment. but oh, it was so good to be dancing.

a super sunday...

it was a writer's morning at starbuck's. with a frappacino in one hand and a pen in the other i had to juggle the bagel, i managed. :) it was an early morning into the city. the inaugural melbourne open house. i stood in line for an hour to get into the manchester unity building (and yes, it was worth the wait, just glorious)... these pics were just in the arcade as i was in line to get upstairs.









look at the details in the elevator. this building was constructed over 11 months in 1932 - yes, through the depression even. neo-gothic exterior with an art deco interior. just glorious.





this is the view a secretary had - all the way down swanston to st paul's. oh, and the guide we had was pretty cute too, for an engineer. ha! no, no pics of him.


the table in the boardroom is magnificent. the glass top is lalique and is one giant piece that was lowered in through the windows before the room was completed.



walter burley griffin's capitol theatre (sans the coloured lights at the moment though).





and the plaza ballroom at the regent theatre.






i would've like to have got under federation square to check the labrynth out, but it booked out in a blink. i've seen the town hall before and will be there again next week for the red carpet ball. i'm certain the line for st paul's cathedral would be too long so i trammed down to st kilda for a late lunch followed by fruit tart at one of the cake shops along acland street.


like i said, a pretty super sunday.

i've been sick...

so stop complaining. i've been sick enough to stop dancing. see... i told you i wasn't well. but never fear, i will be back. one good thing to come out of this whole taking antibiotics thing, is that i have succumbed once more to the delights of joss whedon's buffy. ahhh...

the walk back to purgatory...

i just had to have a pub parma today, so walked into footscray. thank goodness for the walk there and then back again, the bird was so large i thought sesame street would be without the yellow fellow.

it's a nice neighbourhood, i took a few pics with my phone on the slow walk back to the office.






and then to finish off the friday afternoon.... mmmm..... (yes, i've got dancing tonight to work it all off - and i only had one).

my nan's the absolute BEST!

that's all that needs to be said. :)