Whether you have plans today or are just staying in. May your Saturday be an awesome one. Stay safe, keep warm. Peace!

  • Rusty Raven M
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    1 year ago

    I am planning a day in the city, now I just need to wait for a day that I am both not working and that does not look likely to be rainy. It might be a while.

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        1 year ago

        Primarily a visit to the museum (possibly with an Exhibition Building tour) and to the Systems Garden at Melbourne University (which I put a link to on the main page). Depending on time and enthusiasm I might do a breakfast at Birrarung Marr and the self-guided tour of the State Library.

        I keep finding lots of interesting things though, so there will probably be more days to come. I haven’t really been doing much like that since pre-Covid.

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          1 year ago

          Was it your post about the systems garden? It looks cool and I’d like a guided tour I think, just to get the best out of it knowledge wise.

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            1 year ago

            Yes it was. The uni subject on gardening I am doing included the video I linked and I thought it looked worth a visit. They are in the process of creating a lot of interactive material for the garden which sounds really good.

          • the_procrastinata
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            1 year ago

            Melbourne Uni sometimes do guided tours around the campus, although when I worked there the tour didn’t include System Gardens. It does show the River Red Gums on the sports oval though, which pre-date European invasion of Australia.

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          1 year ago

          Oooo! Is the museum visit to see the Indian textiles exhibit that’s currently on? That looks amazing and I want to go to that!

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            1 year ago

            I was primarily planning on looking at the Aboriginal Cultural Centre as I have been learning more about that area lately, but the textiles exhibit is also on my list.

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            1 year ago

            There are so many amazing tours available for all sorts of places around Melbourne. I managed to get onto a behind the scenes tour of the Library archives a few years ago as part of the Melbourne open weekends which was really fascinating. I also did a tour of the Arts Centre including the costume archives, also highly recommended.

            I was starting to do quite a few of those things, but then Covid happened and I’m really only just starting to think about it again now.