5 Reasons Why Things are looking up...
1. Dinner at The Naked Fig, situated appropriately overlooking the nudie beach at Swanbourne. Checkered history with thumbs-down reviews followed by a Golden Plate. Now all good. Apparently packed for breakfast. BYO night on Thursdays. Very pleasant food and great sunsets. 3.5 stars
2. Lunch at Sentinel Restaurant on St George's Terrace. Steve Scaffidi is my restaurant hero, although I am still mourning the demise of Alto's in Subiaco. Sentinel is, in some ways, similar to the excellent Bar One (but without Mama Scaffidi's gnocchi). Friday lunch probably not the time to try it for the first time with run-off-their-feet staff and a slightly heavy and oversauced twice-baked goats' cheese souffle. But Steve did give me a hug, so I booked in for dinner with a visiting UK supplier next Monday. 3.5 stars, but expect it to improve.
3. Cricket: Shaun Marsh bashed the Vics in a 20/20 match and then rescued Australia in the second One Day Match at Bellerive Oval. I am still depressed about Mike Hussey's injury, still irritated by Michael Clarke and still have sleepless nights about losing the Ashes... but beating the Poms twice in a row, even in a pyjama game, is some cause to smile.
4. Music: The Sting concert at Sandalford Winery on Saturdaynight. Magic! 12,000 people on a balmy night, Sting + the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on the Symphonicity Tour 2011.
Terrific Aussie back up singer Jo Lawry (Fabulous voice, delicious looking and currently doing her PhD in music). A splendid version of one of my alltime favourites: "An Englishman in New York".
Also, finally had it confirmed live that it is not "fields of Bali", but "fields of barley".
5. Humour: Watched Ricky Gervais doing a wickedly funny MC gig at the Golden Globes ceremony.
1. Dinner at The Naked Fig, situated appropriately overlooking the nudie beach at Swanbourne. Checkered history with thumbs-down reviews followed by a Golden Plate. Now all good. Apparently packed for breakfast. BYO night on Thursdays. Very pleasant food and great sunsets. 3.5 stars
2. Lunch at Sentinel Restaurant on St George's Terrace. Steve Scaffidi is my restaurant hero, although I am still mourning the demise of Alto's in Subiaco. Sentinel is, in some ways, similar to the excellent Bar One (but without Mama Scaffidi's gnocchi). Friday lunch probably not the time to try it for the first time with run-off-their-feet staff and a slightly heavy and oversauced twice-baked goats' cheese souffle. But Steve did give me a hug, so I booked in for dinner with a visiting UK supplier next Monday. 3.5 stars, but expect it to improve.
3. Cricket: Shaun Marsh bashed the Vics in a 20/20 match and then rescued Australia in the second One Day Match at Bellerive Oval. I am still depressed about Mike Hussey's injury, still irritated by Michael Clarke and still have sleepless nights about losing the Ashes... but beating the Poms twice in a row, even in a pyjama game, is some cause to smile.
Terrific Aussie back up singer Jo Lawry (Fabulous voice, delicious looking and currently doing her PhD in music). A splendid version of one of my alltime favourites: "An Englishman in New York".
Also, finally had it confirmed live that it is not "fields of Bali", but "fields of barley".
5. Humour: Watched Ricky Gervais doing a wickedly funny MC gig at the Golden Globes ceremony.
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