Writers in Restaurants - Craig Sherborne

Senior journalist with the Herald-Sun, Craig Sherborne is also an author, playwright and poet. Winner of the Wal Cherry Award for best play of the year in 2004, his book Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for both the Victorian and Queensland Premier's Award. The launch of the second part his biographical trilogy Muck was a feature at the recent Melbourne Writers' Festival.

When: Sunday 18th November 10:30 am
Where: Rose Cottage, Monbulk
Cost: $20 (includes brunch)

Brunch Menu
Bacon & Eggs with Spinach and Grilled Tomato served with a Warm Croissant
Homemade slices and scones to share
Tea, Coffee and Fruit Juice

Bookings essential phone 9298 8455 or your local branch.

Cheers, Maryanne

Liz Porter talk cancelled

Unfortunately, due to a lack of numbers, the Liz Porter talk on Forensics (Thursday night at Ringwood) has been cancelled.

Cheers, Maryanne

Digital photography : from camera to pc

Ron Cork, president of the Knox Photographic Society, will give a talk on:

• camera selection
• differences between compacts and SLRs
• value of pixels
• composition of photos
• what to do when you get them on your PC.

These talks book out so quickly so book now.

When: Thursday 15th November 7pm
Where: Rowville Library, Stud Park Shopping Centre, Stud Road, Rowville
Bookings phone 9294 1300

Cheers, Maryanne

Christmas Cooking with Jill Hess

For our last cookery club meeting for the year, Jill is returning to demonstrate some wonderful Christmas cooking.
(in a Homer Simpson voice) Hmm.....Christmas pudding.

When: Monday 19th November 12:30pm
Where: Mt Evelyn Library, 50 Wray Crescent, Mt. Evelyn
Bookings phone 97363851

Cheers, Maryanne

Garden recycling

Nicole from Envirocon will be giving a demonstration of composting and worm farming. Very topical!

When: Wednesday 14th November 2pm
Where: Healesville Library, 231 Maroondah Highway, Healesville
Bookings on 59624423
Free Talk
Light refreshments provided

Cheers, Maryanne

Reading Cafe - Meet Sharyn Munro

Sharyn Munro is a freelance writer as well as an award-winning short story writer and regularly contributes non-fiction pieces to ABC Radio National’s Bush Telegraph program. She is a mother of two, grandmother of seven and is also a late-blooming environmental activist.

She lives in a solar-powered mudbrick cabin on her mountain wildlife refuge in the New South Wales Hunter Valley and is regenerating her property’s vegetation at a pace dictated by ageing knees.

Her first book, The Woman on the Mountain, has just been released by Exisle Publishing.

When: Monday 12th November 12:30pm
Where: Lilydale Library, Anderson Street, Lilydale
Ph: 9294 3120
Cost: $7.50 Bookings essential

Cheers, Maryanne

The Librarians

Well the publicity for the new show The Librarians has been floating around our tea rooms for months now and we've been eagerly waiting to find out when it starts.

One of our regular blog readers has contacted the library to remind me that the first episode is Wednesday 9:30pm on the ABC (right after The Chasers).

For those who aren't aware, The Librarians is a comedy/drama set in a fictional public library. Head Librarian Frances O'Brien is forced to employ her ex best friend Christine (who's out on bail for drug trafficking) as a Children's Librarian.

Libraries can be crazy places at times so this should be a hoot. Check it out!

Cheers, Maryanne

p.s. thanks to the member that let me know about this

Liz Porter - Forensics talk

Do you love watching CSI and want to hear some stories of the real thing? Liz Porter, author of Written on the Skin will discuss this Thursday at Ringwood how pathologists, chemists, entomologists, DNA specialists and document examiners have used their expertise in solving dozens of crimes and mysteries.

We need a few more bookings for this talk to go ahead, so don't hold back. Book now!

When: Thursday 1st November 7pm
Where: Ringwood Library, 4 Melbourne Street Mall, Ringwood
Bookings phone 98700177.

Cheers, webgurl