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Craft and Arts

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 We went into the CBD on 15 January to check out a couple of exhibitions and go to a concert in St Paul's Cathedral.  The places visited are numbered in this map, in the order we visited them. We began (1) at the Craft Victoria Gallery.  A wonderful cavern of excellent craft work, most of which is for sale, some apparently at prices I could handle although I didn't get to specifics.  This is all ceramic. Display shelving. Some major items out of the shelves. They had very quiet music playing which I was told was A_X by Dean Blunt .  A lesson for the Cricket people, in terms of volume, musical quality and content. We moved along Flinders Lane to find the Outsiders exhibition wasn't yet open.  However it is next to Hosier Lane (2) which was very active with onlookers. A view into Rutledge Lane (3): not sure I'd go in there after dark. Back to the bottom of Hosier where the guy in the centre (leaning back) was leading a walk.  Also happy to talk to kibit...
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Chicket

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 Excuse the neologism for women's cricket.   So we wandered down to Junction Oval to watch the cricket. I realised that the last time I had been to a cricket match was at the Adelaide Oval, and possibly involved Ray Illingworth! If I am correct with that, it was 52 years ago. I may have taken daughter to a Shield Match once - if so, very early 1980s only 42 years ago. A few things have changed. The score board is a couple of big screens - one shown above. They give replays and a lot more information (good). Linked in to the 3rd umpire system: I am mixed about this - possibly gives more accurate decisions, but if the 3rd Umpire has to watch a replay 4 times it delays the game a lot and to my mind is an iffy decision. The worst thing was constant playing of loud, shite noise possibly within a dictionary definition of music. Yuccck. I presume this is meant to attract youf to the games. Fail: Frances and I were probably a bit above mean age, but not by much. It was ...
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Go North (inner)

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 We had been told that there were lots of good Op-shops on Sydney Rd in Brunswick so we took ourselves off there.  We had driven - very slowly - down the road back when it was the main way to get on to the Hume Highway.  (These days either the M2 or St Georges Rd would be the choice.)  This blog is thematic rather than chronological! We started our foray at the Greek Orthodox Church of St John the Forerunner on Lygon St in North Carlton. The tram didn't have good information and as Frances asked "Are we nearly there yet?" I saw the church right beside the tram.  It was closed but looked very interesting: must go back one Sunday.  Here is a door ... .. an overview ... ... the dome ... ... and the belfry ( sans bats). The church was relatively modern, being built in 1968.   After going across to Sydney Rd was explored Christ Church, Brunswick.   This was open and very interesting.  Here is a view of the nave. A close(ish)  up of the ...
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