Hi Leanne here. Did you watch the FIFA World Cup this week? My girls are soccer ⚽️ 🥅 kids and we’ve been enthusiasts for this tournament.

So I went down to Alphington Bowls Club to watch the semi final match between England and Australia mid week. It was great! Thanks local bowling friends who organised it all.

I went there with my family and also my friend Tony Wilson who helped us make our podcast series Covid Roulette. He wrote about it on his blog ‘Good One Wilson’. He’s always amusing.

You can read what he wrote here if you are interested, and follow along in his World Cup journey in other posts - he’s been to Brisbane and Sydney for games.

Thanks to everyone who came along to our first series of repair workshops. They were super!

We’ve got another series in Term 4 … we’re just confirming the dates now and will let you know when they are up for booking in.

Thanks Simone at Richmond Community Learning Centre for applying for the Sustainability Victoria grant that is subsidising these workshops and thanks for sharing the delivery hours with us … and other Yarra Neighbourhood Houses.

Speaking of which, this week Yarra Council will be endorsing the new Yarra Neighbourhood House Partnership Strategy. Hooray! It is just great as a tiny grassroots organisation to have such a strong strategic partnership with local government. With regular funding built in.

And of course it is wonderful to have such lovely supportive colleagues across the houses.

How lovely are these little seed packs created by our gardeners on Friday!

They’re out in the seed library ready for neighbourhood planting … if you’re ready to start your spring garden pop past!

Join us this Friday for our Winter Art Exhibition from 5pm. A lovely way to end the week/start the weekend - celebrating local talent at our creative and friendly neighbourhood house.

If you are a local artist and considering entering it is not too late! Entries close on Thursday, and must be delivered to us by 5pm for hanging.

See you then.

Darebin is reviewing their waste strategy in relation to regular household collection, hard rubbish collection, public bins and the circular economy.

If you’d like to comment on any of this click here before 7 September and add your two bobs worth!