Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Reviewing is a difficult art. There are certain constrained forms I particularly like. The obituary. The chess column. The restaurant review. All so constrained by the necessaries, requiring clever use of what little room there is for the decorations. The English tend to do them best. Zia Mahmoud does the most with the least with [...]
Beer, Collingwood, Fitzroy, Food, Gertrude / Langridge St, Pubs and bars, Smith St, Smith St, breakfasts |
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
The Age reported yesterday that the median Abbotsford property sale price — that is the middle number when all the sales results are lined up in chronological order — was 12.7% higher in the first three months of this year compared with the last three months of last year. But there were fewer than 30 [...]
Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Fitzroy, Kew, Real estate, Richmond |
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Dale Phillip Ward, formerly of Nicholson St, Abbotsford, fell into difficulties when his brother was convicted of murder, and committed suicide in jail in a drug overdose. His brother’s girlfriend was murdered too, her dismembered body dumped into the lake at Monash University. Ward used dope, amphetamines, ecstasy and ice, and developed a drug induced [...]
Collingwood, Crime, Fitzroy |