Melbourne

1 Flesh-eating bacteria

• Flesh-eating bacteria encroach upon Melbourne: Buruli in Victoria

2 Saunas and spas

• Sauna Goose is a Danish-style sauna in Melbourne.
• Spa Wars - The Paris End is excellent Spa gossip
• Mornington Peninsula Hot Springs Spa & Massage Victoria is mildly controversial but I still like it TBH
• Alba Thermal Springs & Spa is heir competitor across the road.

3 …as Naarm

The site of the modern city is known as Naarm in the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung languages¹. Naarm as a name has the advantage that the way local English-speakers pronounce Melbourne is baffling to outsiders whereas Naarm is conventionally pronounced as it is conventionally spelled.² That said, I suspect that the way English speakers say ‘Naarm’ might be technically incorrect compared to its historical version because people seem vague about that. On the other hand, the sadly precarious state of the Woiwurrung language means that few people will notice. So at least this mispronunciation likely annoys fewer people than does the mispronunciation of ‘Melbourne’.

Anti-woke types use ‘Melbourne’ exclusively. The very-woke use ‘Naarm’ exclusively. I personally think that arguments about naming things are a low-value use of time, and that it is generally OK that a place has different names in different languages, and that it is fine to choose the appropriate name for the context, which is what I do. FWIW I think 新金山 (Xīnjīnshān, New Gold Mountain”) is a pretty awesome name for this city, just sayin’.

4 Veg boxes

• The Flying Zucchinis
• CERES Fair Food
• Good & Fugly
• Farmers Pick
• Melbourne Food Hub
• Pino’s Fine Produce

5 Incoming

• SOUND SYSTEMS OF MELBOURNE - EL GRAN MONO
  

• https://melbourne.nerdnite.com/

• Melbourne’s Missing Middle

  Melbourne’s density drops precipitously from high-rises to single-family homes, with very little medium density between. Melbourne’s Missing Middle’s signature recommendation—a new Missing Middle Zone—would enable six-storey, mixed-use development on all residential land within 1 kilometre of a train station and 500 metres of a tram stop—building an interconnected network of 1,992 high-amenity, walkable neighbourhoods.

  Melbourne’s Missing Middle envisions Parisian streetscapes across all of inner urban Melbourne, along our train and tram lines and near our town centres. Gentle, walk-up apartments, abundant shopfronts, sidewalk cafes and sprawling parks replacing unaffordable and unsustainable cottages.

• The Paris End

• Open Ear Audio Melbourne - Speaker Repairs and Service

• Greg Olijnyk Cardboard Artist