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Appsolutely and the Lost Muppets adventure

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words: Di Thornley
Ahhh… summer holidays, the time where you eat, drink and watch movies until you get
cabin fever. Then comes the challenge; either get out of the house or run the serious risk
of turning into Martha Stuart or Patrick Bateman. Cue a flurry of texts to decide the next
day’s events and a dig around the app store… Bring on the Melbourne City Challenge.

Appsolutely Melbourne provides an exciting individual or group challenge guaranteed to
shift you to the entertaining side of crazy. I’ve often watched the Amazing Race with envy, wanting to run around town under a team moniker answering questions and sleuthing the city. This app is a free install created by the clever people at Bizar Melbourne. It’s designed to be a portal to individual challenges you purchase and download and at $15-25 it’s pretty good value too. Choosing between the lengthiest (Melbourne) and the shorter
St Kilda or Fitzroy Gardens this group of Lost Muppets had an awesome time navigating from clue to icon with ample use of the pause button between questions to ensure our thirst was quenched along the way. These are the holidays, baby, group consensus decides the consumption of a brain aiding beer a must!

Some minor teething glitches aside, (our team name is not on the leader board yet and the photo hasn’t automatically displayed on Facebook) this was a brilliant way to get out and about and learn a little trivia on the side. And being Melbourne residents I do hope we stay near the top of the ladder, it would be rather embarrassing if our interstate friends take the lead.

So if you have a spare afternoon or some visiting friends why not throw down the glove and declare the competition open?

Check it out in the App Store – Appsolutely Melbourne

Appsolutey Melbourne

Appsolutey Melbourne

Appsolutey Melbourne

Appsolutey Melbourne

Appsolutey Melbourne

Gypsy Pear Cider

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I was over at the North Melbourne Town Hall over the weekend – a place renowned for it’s excellent food – steaks as big as your head and a vegetable shepherds pie that I simply cannot resist each time I go there – but on the weekend upon leaving a friend to go to the bar, I was treated to something I did not expect. Gypsy pear cider. It was a really nice drop, refreshing, mild flavoured and suitably bubbly. A new take on an old summer staple. If you happen to be down North Melbourne way, why not give it a go? You never know, you might like it! Pear cider – who’da thunk it?

Sonido coffee Sunday

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I love a good coffee on Sunday – it’s one of those pleasures you simply can’t do without – especially if you have a lot of work to do and you know it’s going to be a long day. Working on Sunday? Yes, but passion never sleeps and the first issue of Nothing to Nobody is due to launch on the 1 October! So with this in mind, I met up with NtN writer Lou Pardi at Sonido, a new coffee shop in Gertrude St, Fitzroy. It’s got a Cuban flavour and style about it and the coffee is fine, damn fine indeed.

Dreaming Dog Wine

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I love a good drop of the old red stuff, and no I’m not talking True Blood styles. A nice glass of red wine after a hard day at the pixel mines has staved off many an overworked, under-slept, fried brain on toast episode. In short it keeps me sane. But still I consider myself to be no wine expert, instead preferring to purchase my wines by the look of the label (although I was once told that apparently 2003 and 2005 were good years – *touches nose knowingly*) and to date I have rarely been disappointed (and that’s a hint and a hallelujah to designers of wine labels everywhere!). My latest find is Dreaming Dog wines. They’re reasonable priced at around $14.99 a bottle, and the label features as super cute dreaming dog (well, what you were expecting a squirrel?!).