Indie Ladan and her lop ear rabbit Heffie. Photo: Pat Scala. Indie Ladan’s lop ear rabbit Heffie may not purr or wag his tail when she comes home but he still manages to show plenty of […]
Peter Barrett
Freelance journalist
Buyers have a taste for an epicurean escape on the Mornington Peninsula
By Peter Barrett When the traffic jams and pressures of city living finally became enough for Kew-based art dealer Jonathan Cecil and partner Monique Soames, they took out a map of Victoria and started dreaming. […]
Deaf dancer graces new seven-storey mural in Windsor
Strike a pose: artist Guido van Helten with his mural of deaf dancer, Anna Seymour. Photo: Wayne Taylor. By Peter Barrett “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” musician Elvis Costello once said. Half that metaphor […]
Wining and dining on the Mornington Peninsula
My eagle-eyed photographer wife Emma Byrnes and I travelled around the Mornington Peninsula recently, putting together this summer 2016/17 cover story for Go Places With Toyota magazine, published by Pacific+. We ate and drank at some […]
Some care for the mother carers
Natalie Elder, whose daughter was born with a rare genetic disorder. Photo: Paul Jeffers. By Peter Barrett Any mother of a pre-school age child knows that life can be intense. There’s the bathing, feeding, toiletting, playing, […]
Less smoke and super bright colours, that’s how New Year’s Eve is shaping up
This will be the ninth year Howard & Sons pyrotechnician Rusty Johnson has been involved in putting on Melbourne’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display. Photo: Jason South. By Peter Barrett For the ninth consecutive year, Rusty Johnson […]
Putt it there: golfing greens the latest landscape fad
Calan doesn’t think his golf has necessarily improved as a result of his green. Photo: Eddie Jim. By Peter Barrett The latest home landscaping trend has arrived and it has a decidedly man-child feel to it: […]
