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October 1
DELICIOUS DAYS The days ahead hold the promise of rice pudding laced with coconut, Zwetschgendatschi layered with juicy Damson plums and almond slivers, and shell-like Mallorcan Ensaimadas. delicious:days, a porthole into the kitchen of Munich lovebirds Nicky and Oliver, is a gluttonous treasury of recipes and culinary inspiration. When you’re full and sleepy from Panisses and Easter Bread with Chorizo, visit their suggestions for fun, secret spots in Munich to plan your next trip. Visit delicious:days or, for something a little more tangible, pick up their cookbook here.

DELICIOUS DAYS

The days ahead hold the promise of rice pudding laced with coconut, Zwetschgendatschi layered with juicy Damson plums and almond slivers, and shell-like Mallorcan Ensaimadas.

delicious:days, a porthole into the kitchen of Munich lovebirds Nicky and Oliver, is a gluttonous treasury of recipes and culinary inspiration.

When you’re full and sleepy from Panisses and Easter Bread with Chorizo, visit their suggestions for fun, secret spots in Munich to plan your next trip.

Visit delicious:days or, for something a little more tangible, pick up their cookbook here.

September 28
MERCHANTS OF FANCY Flying trapeze artists, a dervish-like shot-putter, and tea-cup-pollinating bees act as tour guides in a virtual amble through DISTRACTED: Merchants of Fancy, Perth’s preeminent curiosity shop. It’s an alluring dance to get you to visit in person. When you do, you’ll get lost perusing French cutlery, Lomo cameras, and BedHead pajamas. Extract yourself in time to stop by the Haircut shop where the stylists will make you feel polished without using your head as their own personal canvas. See Connie “The Ripper” Burt, their efficient waxing specialist, for a different sort of maintence. Refresh at the Coffee shop, with sustainably-grown Fiori coffee, an ever-evolving menu of delicacies, and rich treats by neighborhood bakers. Or contemplate works by local artists in their gallery. Make sure to mark your calendar for the first of every month, when they host their Distracted Manual Arts Academy, a workshop with instructors from a roster of respected local artisans.

MERCHANTS OF FANCY

Flying trapeze artists, a dervish-like shot-putter, and tea-cup-pollinating bees act as tour guides in a virtual amble through DISTRACTED: Merchants of Fancy, Perth’s preeminent curiosity shop.

It’s an alluring dance to get you to visit in person. When you do, you’ll get lost perusing French cutlery, Lomo cameras, and BedHead pajamas.

Extract yourself in time to stop by the Haircut shop where the stylists will make you feel polished without using your head as their own personal canvas. See Connie “The Ripper” Burt, their efficient waxing specialist, for a different sort of maintence.

Refresh at the Coffee shop, with sustainably-grown Fiori coffee, an ever-evolving menu of delicacies, and rich treats by neighborhood bakers. Or contemplate works by local artists in their gallery.

Make sure to mark your calendar for the first of every month, when they host their Distracted Manual Arts Academy, a workshop with instructors from a roster of respected local artisans.

September 21
SEND ME SEEDS There was never a more delicious way to minimize your carbon footprint than by growing and nurturing your own garden. Here to motivate you are sisters Sas and Kylie Allardice of Send Me Seeds, Pip (Pollinate, Inspire, Propagate), a seed subscription service offering natural, locally-sourced seeds for your own lush, sustainable Eden. A one season subscription includes 6 seed varieties carefully selected to thrive in your current planting season and climate, where an annual seed subscription will assure you an abundant harvest throughout the year. If you’re not confident your thumb is green enough, Pip also offers hints to guide you on the path to a flourishing garden.

SEND ME SEEDS

There was never a more delicious way to minimize your carbon footprint than by growing and nurturing your own garden.

Here to motivate you are sisters Sas and Kylie Allardice of Send Me Seeds, Pip (Pollinate, Inspire, Propagate), a seed subscription service offering natural, locally-sourced seeds for your own lush, sustainable Eden.

A one season subscription includes 6 seed varieties carefully selected to thrive in your current planting season and climate, where an annual seed subscription will assure you an abundant harvest throughout the year.

If you’re not confident your thumb is green enough, Pip also offers hints to guide you on the path to a flourishing garden.

September 17
Kitchen Casanova In our misty fantasies, we have access to a Cyrano de Bergerac who not only tells us what sweet nothings to whisper to our paramours, but also hints at what to do in the kitchen to impress them. Our dream-come-true has arrived in the form of the Kitchen Casanova who writes Cook to Bang, a blog about the culinary avenue to seduction. Whether altruistically improving tenuous Canadian-American relations with succulent shrimp, sharing an oyster recipe as formidable as his ninja skills, or exposing his innermost, blondie-obsessed demon, Cook to Bang arms you with potent tools for getting some action.

Kitchen Casanova

In our misty fantasies, we have access to a Cyrano de Bergerac who not only tells us what sweet nothings to whisper to our paramours, but also hints at what to do in the kitchen to impress them.

Our dream-come-true has arrived in the form of the Kitchen Casanova who writes Cook to Bang, a blog about the culinary avenue to seduction.

Whether altruistically improving tenuous Canadian-American relations with succulent shrimp, sharing an oyster recipe as formidable as his ninja skills, or exposing his innermost, blondie-obsessed demon, Cook to Bang arms you with potent tools for getting some action.

September 1
Watery Muted Landscapes Joanna Logue’s watery, muted landscapes immediately call to mind the blissful state between sleep and wakefulness, the moment you grasp at consciousness unsure of your position in dream or reality. Her ship studies, currently on view at Perth’s Gadfly Gallery, are ghosts across canvas, as intangible as ribbons of smoke. Drift through the exhibition at Gadfly any time between now and September 13th or visit online here.Gadfly Gallery 131B Waratah AveDalkeith 6009 Western Australia

Watery Muted Landscapes

Joanna Logue’s watery, muted landscapes immediately call to mind the blissful state between sleep and wakefulness, the moment you grasp at consciousness unsure of your position in dream or reality.

Her ship studies, currently on view at Perth’s Gadfly Gallery, are ghosts across canvas, as intangible as ribbons of smoke.

Drift through the exhibition at Gadfly any time between now and September 13th or visit online here.

Gadfly Gallery
131B Waratah Ave
Dalkeith 6009 Western Australia

August 25

BAR CENTRAL

Off Barcelona’s La Rambla sits La Boqueria, an open-air market and virtual hive humming with the steady activity of its vendors.  And at the back of La Boqueria, past swinging legs of cured ham, pyramids of tender peaches, and gelatinous octopus heaped on mountains of shaved ice, is Bar Central.

Little more than a stove, counter and beer tap, Bar Central is consistently crowded with those fortunate enough to have secured a stool, and the hungry masses who circle the counter like sharks, waiting to snag an opening.

SmallNotes’ best Barcelonan spread started with a glass of Estrella, followed by artfully arranged asparagus. The plate of crawfish arrived soon after, and we gleefully chopped off the heads and peeled them with our hands. We finished with a pile of deep-fried sardines. Pure heaven.

Bar Central
91 La Rambla,
Mercat de la Boqueria, No. 494–496
Barcelona, Spain
34-93-301-1098

July 20
LET’S GET PHYSICALIt’s easy to ignore the gym (what membership?), but turning a blind eye to your iPod is far more tricky. With iTrainer, the iPod-friendly personal trainer, it’s nearly impossible, especially with a service that calls or texts to gently motivate you away from your celebrity gossip addiction and toward healthy exertion. When you finally do strap on your sneakers and plug in your earphones, you’ll be expertly guided through a workout based on your proficiency and fitness goals. Each session is part of an 8 to 12 week program to ensure you build on what you’ve done before and efficiently progress toward the body you want.  Visit iTrainer to get started.

LET’S GET PHYSICAL

It’s easy to ignore the gym (what membership?), but turning a blind eye to your iPod is far more tricky.

With iTrainer, the iPod-friendly personal trainer, it’s nearly impossible, especially with a service that calls or texts to gently motivate you away from your celebrity gossip addiction and toward healthy exertion.

When you finally do strap on your sneakers and plug in your earphones, you’ll be expertly guided through a workout based on your proficiency and fitness goals. Each session is part of an 8 to 12 week program to ensure you build on what you’ve done before and efficiently progress toward the body you want. 

Visit iTrainer to get started.

July 14
MISTY PARISIAN DREAMS If you’ve ever dreamed of writing your first novel while overlooking the rooftops of Paris from a garret window, a galois cigarette dangling from your mouth, it seems the Sydney Writers’ Centre has read your mind.  This fall, they’re offering Memoir Writing in Paris, a 16-day intensive led by Patti Miller, author of the best-selling Writing Your Life. The course has been crafted to draw deeply on the City of Light’s unique ability to inspire.  Mornings will be spent immersed in study, leaving your afternoons free to explore literary rambles leading you in the footsteps of your most beloved writers or cafes once frequented by de Beauvoir and Sartre.  For further enlightenment, click here.

MISTY PARISIAN DREAMS

If you’ve ever dreamed of writing your first novel while overlooking the rooftops of Paris from a garret window, a galois cigarette dangling from your mouth, it seems the Sydney Writers’ Centre has read your mind.  

This fall, they’re offering Memoir Writing in Paris, a 16-day intensive led by Patti Miller, author of the best-selling Writing Your Life. The course has been crafted to draw deeply on the City of Light’s unique ability to inspire.  

Mornings will be spent immersed in study, leaving your afternoons free to explore literary rambles leading you in the footsteps of your most beloved writers or cafes once frequented by de Beauvoir and Sartre.  

For further enlightenment, click here.

July 7
LUCID DREAMS Susannah Conway’s photographs are like stills from lucid dreams, her camera adeptly capturing a moment and transporting you to an intimate place of stillness. Starting July 13th, she invites us to look at our lives through this lens with her e-course, Unravelling: Ways of Seeing My Self. The 8-week workshop will take you through a series of photo assignments and writing exercises, with video guidance from Susannah, that will lead you to redefine your vision of the world you live in. Register for the Unravelling e-course here and be sure to peruse Susannah’s glorious photographs while you’re visiting.

LUCID DREAMS

Susannah Conway’s photographs are like stills from lucid dreams, her camera adeptly capturing a moment and transporting you to an intimate place of stillness.

Starting July 13th, she invites us to look at our lives through this lens with her e-course, Unravelling: Ways of Seeing My Self. The 8-week workshop will take you through a series of photo assignments and writing exercises, with video guidance from Susannah, that will lead you to redefine your vision of the world you live in.

Register for the Unravelling e-course here and be sure to peruse Susannah’s glorious photographs while you’re visiting.

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