I’m looking forward to:

• More sunshine ☀️ - the weekend was pretty great!

• Our short courses starting (Women in the Shed with Maylei, Woodworking Projects with Dave and Drawing with Louisa are all kicking off this week).

• Arty Gardening on Friday … parents and kids, oldies and youngies … and anyone in between who enjoys creative outdoorsy activities is welcome to join Katrina in the garden and/or shed from 10.30am. This week we’ll be decorating and filling seed packets. Then why not stay for morning tea (at 11.30am with Kalimna).

• Our new play equipment arriving - finally. Lockdown delayed things a little, but we have a new cubby and sandpit now arriving (fingers crossed) on Wednesday. They’re going to be pretty gorgeous we think! Pop past later in the week for a play.

• Catching up with more of you! I did see lots of people last week and catch up on their news, but I was sick on Friday and missed seeing all our regular Friday friends. Hopefully this week!

Pods collected for nature play - in the garden on Wednesday (Playtime in the Garden) and Friday (Arty Gardening) mornings. There are activities on every weekday morning at ACC for young families.

Prefer shopping outside? And buying directly from local producers?

If you are already a keen Alphington Farmers Market shopper, or perhaps a local that hasn’t had a chance to visit on the weekend (kids sports and all!) you’ll be interested to know that you can now go past on Thursdays from 2-5pm for a midweek top up … or general shop.

Starts today.

Sick of cooking? Here’s a message from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on Tuesday that may be of interest …

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We’ve now hit $29,050 of cancelled catering jobs in Melbourne for our social enterprise due to lockdown & today’s announcement will ⬆️ that again. We will keep paying our casual refugee staff if no work as it’s the right thing to do. But we’d love to instead book out all our Thurs-Sat delivery spots & create even more work.

Order here 👉🏼 https://meals.asrc.org.au/

🙏 Kon ASRC CEO

As we look towards an additional week of lockdown you might be thinking about online resources again, and perhaps contemplating the joy of a meditation session, some online workouts, garden inspiration, online cooking masterclasses or access to interesting new films …

If so check out the Victoria Together website here.

Victoria Together aims to connect and empower Victorian communities through inclusive experiences, to create a sense of belonging for all Victorians.

ENJOY ANYTIME

There’s lots of great stuff!

For example, the Living Stronger online exercise classes are published by COTA (Council on the Aging). There are 15 workout programs for older Victorians to try at home designed by a physiotherapist. Move your body at your pace, and embrace feeling stronger and more energised. Here’s the direct link.

Missing your tram ride to work or the city? Here’s a fun idea. Take a ride on the 96 from home! Watch one of Melbourne's iconic trams as it completes its route from Preston depot to St Kilda while the city starts to wake up.

Unfortunately due to the latest lockdown we had to cancel our in-person launch of Gabe Freeman’s gorgeous collage collection in our street gallery … so we made a little video instead. You can watch it here.

But of course, if you live in the ‘hood you can take a stroll past anytime and check it out.

Alphington Neighbourhood Gallery is a 24/7 community arts initiative celebrating and sharing creativity in our local neighbourhood.