There are so many beautiful blooms in the neighbourhood my plan to choose ‘the best’ has fallen in a heap in just the second week!

So instead here’s a collection to admire equally!

This week we say goodbye to the 5km bubble … so here’s a final little goodbye story.

Recently there was an article in the Mountain Views Community News (a friend from Healesville shared it) about a lady called Mim who was making the most of her 5km bubble.

It reminded me that in this extraordinary year that we’ve all had, what we can tend to think of as our solo experience can actually be pretty universal (the walks are just a bit hillier in some other places right?).

A friend shared a link with me on Facebook to this upcoming film festival.

And I thought it would be fun to share this with you, just in case you also have a new appreciation for Korean films (my family loved Parasite!).

The festival begins on October 29th and runs through till November 5th. You can check out the program here.

Yesterday we had a new little street library installed out the front of ACC - not a book library this time, but a seed library!

This is a new initiative of the City of Darebin. There are four of these libraries being installed across the municipality. We’re feeling very lucky to have one of them, and we’d like to thank Natalie at Council for getting such a great project off the ground (and Tommy for making and installing the library at ACC). The little structure is super cute and a great addition to our garden and neighbourhood!

So … now you are invited to use it. You can pop past and take seeds obviously … and then, when you have them .. share some seeds from your garden.

Luckily we had some ready to go. Louise from the Fairfield Community Garden dropped off a big bag of dried out broccoli seeds still on the stems just before Christmas last year. Which we packaged up. And then Win brought some silverbeet seeds to community lunch earlier in the year for friends and fellow lunchers to take home.

if you’ve got seeds to share Darebin has provided cute little envelopes for you to put them in. They’re on the bottom shelf! You can also drop off a bag of seeds (stick them on the bottom shelf as well, with a note letting us know what they are) or leave them with us if we are onsite… and we’ll package them up into the smaller packs if you don’t get the chance yourself.

So now there’s no need to feel bad about letting your veggies go to seed! Instead think of it as an opportunity to be neighbourly. We’re looking forward to seeing more seeds in our new seed library soon. How fun. Aren’t we lucky? Happy gardening friends.

News beyond the hood today - from Oslo in fact. Find out how things have unfolded in Norway. Neighbourhoodliness from the other side of the world! The letters are just up. Pop down to the Farmers Market and collect your letter to read on the way through.