:: Merry Making, Happy Hour...

I have had a LOT of stuff going on. Shop stuff. Conference Stuff. Family Stuff. Secret Stuff.  I'm stuffed up, in a completely great way.

Yesterday we had breakfast at Slowpoke on Brunswick Street :: that's Avocado and Feta on Toast and some Eggs and Soldiers up there.  Then I prepped and headed off to the Australian Booksellers Association Conference to talk to their delegates about Social Media.  They discussed all kinds of good things, amongst them National Bookshop Day, The Indigenous Literacy Foundation and Indie Bound.  Andy Griffiths was there wielding a giant crocodile.  Marieke Hardy MC'd the dinner.  A pretty rad event, all 'round, methinks!

Today I had a very ace meeting with my friend Anna Brownfield and other good people about some good stuff we are doing.  Then Anna took me to lunch at Mario's. Noice!  Lucky I had a Dry July Golden Ticket unused, because THAT meant I could have two glasses of Prosecco with my lunch!  Thank you to the lovely gal who bought me a Golden Ticket when I was having a rough day... I didn't use it then, but I did use it today to have a mini-Anna celebration.  An Anna-Bration, in fact.

Gosh it was a rainy day here.  I had to catch 4 trams and 3 trains sans umbrella (borrowed/lost by various other people who live in my house) so I am pretty soggy.  I DID really love listening to some more Desert Island Discs during the damp commute, though.  I love this one with David Tennant.  He chose some great tracks by The Housemartins, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Proclaimers and Elvis Costello.  I loved that he talked about finally feeling like one of the cool kids, always wanting to 'do better' and the things he said about growing up as the son of a Preacher.  You might like to listen too?!

I'm a bit sad that I didn't get to Design Made Trade, because I had so much other stuff on.  But luckily super-star Design correspondent Lucy   DID go!  You can check out her run down and Design Awards here!

What's been going on in your neck of the woods?

xx Pip

Here are some tunes for your afternoon...