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WOW Festival 2013: put this inspiration feast in your diary now
The weather has a funny way of influencing our emotions. At this time of the year, when new starts and resolutions require energy and pep, the seasons can get in the way. I’m sure it’s hard for those...
View ArticleThe humble creator: Ang Lee, director of Life of Pi
One of my favourite things to do is read or hear about how other people create. How writers write, how film-makers visualise their films and then bring them to life. What drives and inspires them; how...
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Follow Your Dreams: Becky John, founder of Who Made Your Pants?
Following our very popular post on Kate Foster, of Full of Grace Granola, we are excited to present to you the second inspirational profile in our Follow Your Dreams series. It’s so uplifting, not to...
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Jason McElwain’s reminder about how lucky we are
Since having baby Orla nearly 5 months ago, I, unsurprisingly, spend big chunks of my day watching her tiny but important milestones. The latest is what we call the “thumb pop” – she has worked out how...
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Musings on life indoors and out, inspired by John Hopkins
Yesterday I read the obituary of a landscape architect, urban designer and environmental planner named John Hopkins. Unfortunately I was not aware of Hopkins before reading the sad farewell, but from...
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Follow your dreams: Erin Fitzgerald, Peace Corps volunteer
Erin Fitzgerald was Director of Training at New York Life Insurance Company in Manhattan when she worked up the courage quit her job, leave her home and fulfil a dream she had held since college: to be...
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A Bulb wedding + true love, by Johnny Cash
If you’re not humming one of these songs by the time you’ve finished reading the post, I haven’t tried hard enough. That’s right: love is in the air here at The Bulb. (Thanks John Paul Young)...
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Guest post: Jill Turton’s Tour de France … in Yorkshire
An army marches on its stomach, reckoned Napoleon. So when the Tour de France invasion comes to Yorkshire next year Jill Turton, who runs the food website Squidbeak, knows just where to eat, drink and...
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Goodbye Grandad
Last week, one of the biggest inspirations of my life, my Grandad, Jim Doubleday, died. He was two months shy of his 97th birthday. Today, my family will say goodbye to him at a service in Melbourne. I...
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The power of showing up: Big Hearted Business Conference with Clare Bowditch
On the weekend I was reminded of the powerful effect of something seemingly quite simple: showing up. Sometimes by choosing to go, rather than to stay; to buy it rather than saving the money; to take a...
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Follow Your Dreams: Rohan Anderson, Whole Larder Love
A reader of Rohan Anderson’s blog, Whole Larder Love, left a comment at the bottom of his most recent post saying, “The way you live your life – and share it – is a gift to us all. Thank you.” That...
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Nurturing nature: five tips from a passionate gardener
Until recently, all my thumbs knew how to do was press the space bar. But then my husband and I bought a new home whose backyard consisted of a stark bricked courtyard. Its main features were an ugly...
View ArticleGlen Hansard, The Frames + finding your passion
Last month I was lucky enough to see - for the fifth time – my favourite band, The Frames, in concert in Melbourne. As always this Irish rock-folk group led by charismatic, chaotic, endearing,...
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The Gentle Author’s Spitalfields Life: sharing curiosity and London life
Every day, without fail, a story of life in the heart of London drops in to my inbox. They are stories of workers, buildings, animals, criminals, writers, merchants, children, teachers and artists;...
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The Bulb debuts on Head Butler with a tribute to Paul Kelly
I may be happily married, but I can openly admit to having had an intellectual crush on Jesse Kornbluth, creator and curator at Head Butler, for some time. The man has excellent taste and knows music,...
View ArticleFeeling bookish? Our best-read book posts and literature festival picks
Our literary hearts are aflutter on both sides of the Equator. In Australia there has been a flurry of good stuff coming out of the Sydney Writer’s Festival and this coming weekend in Melbourne the...
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“I love to think about her”– the importance of remembering special people
This week in Melbourne the news has been dominated by the name of a man that few of us want to remember. In respect to the family of Jill Meagher, who was savagely snatched from the street, raped and...
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Infectious Andy Murray mania shows the power of sport as a unifier
For the past two weeks, I’ve been living amid Murray mania. The British have been talking about, writing about and screaming for Andy Murray in his attempt to become the first British man to win...
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Following your dreams is do-able, see?
Pheeeew-ee! It’s been a busy few weeks at The Bulb. It may not *look* like we’re doing much, but a-ha, we’re doing the old swan trick: a calm surface with legs paddling madly beneath. In between...
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