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Recipe of the Month: barbecue pork fillet + summer pudding
Though it has been 15 months since I moved back to Melbourne from London, I still suffer the occasional bout of homesickness for the UK. Pictures, visitors, even particular music can set me off. But...
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Need to make a decision? Slow it down a little
Almost a week ago, the love that was in the air at The Bulb blossomed in to a magical celebration. Our very own Bulbette Sarah married her long-time love Jonny on a glorious Melbourne summer day. As...
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Pinterest: the cure for Mondayitis
Pinterest is, in my view, the best thing to hit the internet since search engines enabled us to look up anything and find an answer. It is the single most easily-accessible source of inspiration in my...
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The art of friendship: the humble pen pal
Modern life, with its digital domination and rushed interactions, is sometimes not very conducive to fostering meaningful relationships. A quick bit of text message love is wonderful; a brief coffee or...
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Guest post: Jill Turton’s Tour de France … in Yorkshire
An army marches on its stomach, reckoned Napoleon. So when the Tour de France invasion comes to Yorkshire next year Jill Turton, who runs the food website Squidbeak, knows just where to eat, drink and...
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Interview with Sara Tiefenbrun, The School of Life Melbourne
I really didn’t like school. I liked to sleep in but the 9am start-time got in the way. I was a bit neurotic; school, with its bullies and cool kids, was a daunting prospect. School, in short, was an...
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Goodbye Grandad
Last week, one of the biggest inspirations of my life, my Grandad, Jim Doubleday, died. He was two months shy of his 97th birthday. Today, my family will say goodbye to him at a service in Melbourne. I...
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Mad for Melbourne: eating, drinking, shopping and relaxing in North Fitzroy
We love lots of places here at The Bulb. We’re loved-up kind of people. You’ve heard all about our travel stories, our days out and our road trips. But there are two very special cities which are the...
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The power of showing up: Big Hearted Business Conference with Clare Bowditch
On the weekend I was reminded of the powerful effect of something seemingly quite simple: showing up. Sometimes by choosing to go, rather than to stay; to buy it rather than saving the money; to take a...
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Recipe of the month: basil and lime sorbet
I’ve been dreaming about blue skies and sunshine; about feeling the heat of the sun on my limbs and seeing the long drawn-out shadows of a summer evening fall across the city. Yesterday morning between...
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Follow Your Dreams: Rohan Anderson, Whole Larder Love
A reader of Rohan Anderson’s blog, Whole Larder Love, left a comment at the bottom of his most recent post saying, “The way you live your life – and share it – is a gift to us all. Thank you.” That...
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10 crafternoon ideas to turn you into a creator
At the Big Hearted Business Conference a couple of weeks ago, artist and all-round wise woman Rachel Power made this statement: “If you’re not creating, you’re consuming”. You know those concepts that...
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Embracing five-minute laughter breaks, and where to find them
Sometimes I just need a laugh. When the stress of work, family, life, home maintenance, car maintenance, over-zealous planning, finances and the many ‘shoulds’ of life pile up, I admit that laughter...
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Aluka reinvents raw with debut album “Space”
Discovering a new piece of music can sometimes make me feel like I’m being reborn. It can be as if I’m hearing for the first time, my brain being tickled with something new, intriguing, beautiful, raw....
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Nurturing nature: five tips from a passionate gardener
Until recently, all my thumbs knew how to do was press the space bar. But then my husband and I bought a new home whose backyard consisted of a stark bricked courtyard. Its main features were an ugly...
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The Bulb in Mexico: Oaxaca cooking class at Casa Crespo (and the passion...
Reading Julia’s post this week on the joys of growing her own vegetables, and revisiting her recent interview with fresh-food champion Rohan Anderson of Whole Larder Love, got me thinking about where...
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Recipe of the month: raw beetroot, butternut pumpkin and pecan salad
The problem with most diets is not only that they are unsustainable, they are uninspiring. In the past I have fallen into the cycle of following periods of indulgence by periods of abstinence or...
View ArticleGlen Hansard, The Frames + finding your passion
Last month I was lucky enough to see - for the fifth time – my favourite band, The Frames, in concert in Melbourne. As always this Irish rock-folk group led by charismatic, chaotic, endearing,...
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The Gentle Author’s Spitalfields Life: sharing curiosity and London life
Every day, without fail, a story of life in the heart of London drops in to my inbox. They are stories of workers, buildings, animals, criminals, writers, merchants, children, teachers and artists;...
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Mad for Melbourne: eating, shopping and exploring in South Melbourne
There is a bit of a north versus south (of the river) rivalry in Melbourne. North people are very north, and south very south. So much so that it’s incredibly easy to never venture to the other side if...
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