Congratulations to one of the most extraordinary humans I know, Rosanna Barbero from @addiroad who has just been announced as winner of @multiculturalnsw’s 2024 Human Rights Medal. I first met her during Covid lockdowns, when @addiroad became – for some overlooked communities, whether they be migrant or refugee families, sex workers, marooned students – a life-saving point of contact making sure they got food parcels. I saw her organise laptops for kids trying to do remote-learning from crowded apartments. I saw her bend over backwards to get food out into remote communities where no-one else was going. Have never once heard her say “that’s too hard”, or “I can’t help”. I’ve seen her stay up all night to help get a squad of young girls out of Kabul when the Taliban rode in. And when they arrived, she mothered those young women and anchored them in a warm community of love and support. I’m so grateful that my kids have got to watch and learn from her. And be inspired by her truly radical, brilliant dress sense haha. Most of all, I love the way she never makes anyone feel as though they’re a charity case. It’s never “Oh you poor bugger, I’m so sorry for you, here’s some food.” It’s always “Oh, you’re HERE!! We’ve been WAITING for you! Come in!” And that is a powerful, powerful thing. No wonder people blossom around her like flowers.
❤️
Some absolute BELTERS in the chicken department at @sydneyroyal_eastershow today. A thorough pleasure to review, including some truly EXCELLENT breeder names. Shoutout to Beverley Bird and Akers Flock. And for my son who has been chased by ducks in parks a number of times, the duck breeder Chase Parkes was especially apposite. Congratulations to all category winners.
Some absolute BELTERS in the chicken department at @sydneyroyal_eastershow today. A thorough pleasure to review, including some truly EXCELLENT breeder names. Shoutout to Beverley Bird and Akers Flock. And for my son who has been chased by ducks in parks a number of times, the duck breeder Chase Parkes was especially apposite. Congratulations to all category winners.
Some absolute BELTERS in the chicken department at @sydneyroyal_eastershow today. A thorough pleasure to review, including some truly EXCELLENT breeder names. Shoutout to Beverley Bird and Akers Flock. And for my son who has been chased by ducks in parks a number of times, the duck breeder Chase Parkes was especially apposite. Congratulations to all category winners.
Some absolute BELTERS in the chicken department at @sydneyroyal_eastershow today. A thorough pleasure to review, including some truly EXCELLENT breeder names. Shoutout to Beverley Bird and Akers Flock. And for my son who has been chased by ducks in parks a number of times, the duck breeder Chase Parkes was especially apposite. Congratulations to all category winners.
Some absolute BELTERS in the chicken department at @sydneyroyal_eastershow today. A thorough pleasure to review, including some truly EXCELLENT breeder names. Shoutout to Beverley Bird and Akers Flock. And for my son who has been chased by ducks in parks a number of times, the duck breeder Chase Parkes was especially apposite. Congratulations to all category winners.
Some absolute BELTERS in the chicken department at @sydneyroyal_eastershow today. A thorough pleasure to review, including some truly EXCELLENT breeder names. Shoutout to Beverley Bird and Akers Flock. And for my son who has been chased by ducks in parks a number of times, the duck breeder Chase Parkes was especially apposite. Congratulations to all category winners.
Some absolute BELTERS in the chicken department at @sydneyroyal_eastershow today. A thorough pleasure to review, including some truly EXCELLENT breeder names. Shoutout to Beverley Bird and Akers Flock. And for my son who has been chased by ducks in parks a number of times, the duck breeder Chase Parkes was especially apposite. Congratulations to all category winners.
Finished off a crazed week of racing about, writing, shows in Adelaide and Canberra and just wrapped up in Brisbane, sore of voice and body and all I need is to go to bed after eating a Vietnamese noodle salad. I ordered out. But it arrived without dressing! Can I have an order of Australia please for Anna on the reception desk at @mantra_south_bank who dove into her own handbag for soy, dug out some sugar sachets, thanks to the bar for these lime wedges… I’m back in business. Quick Mantra, give this lady a raise before I MARRY HER. Her look of panic at the prospect of eating a nude noodle was very restorative, and the salad is very very good. Night all.
Peeps, I’m going to be writing a regular political column for @abcnews_au on Wednesdays from now on. Starting today with a brisk romp through the art of war between politicians and lawyers … there’s a link in my bio or you can just find it on the ABC home page. XAC
At @royaleastershow, straight to dahlias and once again I cannot find much in the judging th which I disagree. Graeme Davis seems to have smashed the field, swipe for his well-regarded Winkie Volcano in the “Fimbriated, Under 160mm” division, which is trickier than it sounds I’m sure. Well done, Sir.
At @royaleastershow, straight to dahlias and once again I cannot find much in the judging th which I disagree. Graeme Davis seems to have smashed the field, swipe for his well-regarded Winkie Volcano in the “Fimbriated, Under 160mm” division, which is trickier than it sounds I’m sure. Well done, Sir.
Easter buns from @notquitenigella’s terrific Tangzhong method hot cross bun recipe – gosh it is a winner. I have one kid who won’t do fruit so some of them have white chocolate and the rest have dried apricot. The recipe makes exactly enough for nine in@my @mudaustralia baker thing. Very pleasing. And thanks to the fruit-eating kid for styling
Sales’ Binge is on the blink! New episode out now.
#chat1ooks3
Pretty great highlight of this afternoon at World Science Festival…. Getting to meet Netflix, one of approx 2 dozen snakes who live with the magical @cnzdenek whose other hobby is hiding in bushland to film Palm Cockatoos, the only bird in the world to use tools to make music (it’s a sex thing). Anyway Netflix the snake likes burrowing in hair and found a lot to work with when we met. She also (on stage) slithered inside my dress, around my back and out my left dress sleeve. @leigh_sales (who is cautious around snakes) was a bit edgy. But we also got to meet an ASTRONAUT @astro.woody so yeah. A day when you meet someone who’s orbited the earth nearly 3000 times, plus get to a solid second base with a lovely lady snake … I do love my job.
@natalijarushidi have you heard from any other customers that this dress is unusually snake-attracting? Might be worth keeping an eye on that
This thing with @leigh_sales and me and the AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA is actually happening and in fact starting THIS COMING MONDAY in Brisbane!! @atqpac @australianchamberorchestra … come and see us ruin a perfectly nice orchestra @chat10looks3-style and send through any questions you urgently want asked of these fine musicians ….
Awlrighty so this is definitely happening. Tomorrow night! Buildings don’t lie. @enmore_theatre 7.15pm “50 Odd Years Of Crabb”, in which I tell stories against myself on stage for an hour with slides. And my kid trolls me. Also, it’s dry inside and there’s a bar! @sydneycomedyfestival Tickets through festival or my bio …
Join Sales & Crabb for a DIY therapy session on this week’s ep of Chat 10 Looks 3!
Sydney’s @enmore_theatre show is the ONLY remaining event in my haphazard national festival tour of 50 Years Of Crabb (my one woman slideshow about turning 50) with any tickets remaining. Thank you Perth Canberra Brisbane (I will see you banana-benders on the 17th and 18th) for buying so many tickets without me having to do too much excruciating self-pimpage. I LOVE YOU.
Re Sydney on May 9 – yes that is THURSDAY, at 7.15pm – I shall be accompanied by my tiny impersonator who will flame me for one last time before she gets sent to a lovely distant military school. @glamgwenblake will also be there IN PERSON selling the brilliant tea towels she has designed to immortalise some of my life’s most scorching moments. A true friend. Tickets through @sydneycomedyfestival or link in my bio….
Rach 5! 🤣
While @annabelcrabb and @leigh_sales are in the practise room having a dabble with Rachmaninov, @richardtognetti.aco and the Australian Chamber Orchestra are warming up their question-answering chops ahead of ‘For the Love of Music’ with the @chat10looks3 hosts.
Send in your questions for our musicians to answer ahead of the show, which takes place in Brisbane (Mon 8 Apr), Sydney (Tue 9 Apr) and Melbourne (Fri 12 Apr).
Book via the link in our bio or at aco.com.au
#AustralianChamberOrchestra
Shout out to this organisation @birdsinthebushorange bringing awareness and assistance around DV in the central west of NSW. They have an event on tomorrow and a fundraising auction with some great prizes – give them a follow. Good birds.
@leigh_sales and @annabelcrabb are getting in the zone in the lead up to our ‘For the Love of Music’ shows. They’ll be asking @richardtognetti.aco and ACO musicians everything they’ve ever wanted to know about what goes on in an orchestra. But – before they do, you can too!
Ask us any questions you’d like Richard and the Orchestra to answer before the show – which tours to @atqpac on Mon 8 Apr, 7pm, @sydneyoperahouse, Tue 9 April, 7.30pm and @artscentremelbourne, Fri 12 April, 7.30pm.
See you there! 🎶 Book via the link in our bio or at aco.com.au
#ACO24Season #AustralianChamberOrchestra
Piazzolla’s Libertango. 💥
This piece – and our soloist here, accordion virtuoso James Crabb – will feature in our upcoming ‘For the Love of Music’ live shows with @chat10looks3 hosts @leigh_sales and @annabelcrabb. Mon 8 Apr in Brisbane, Tue 9 April in Sydney, and Fri 12 Apr in Melbourne.
Find out more and get tickets at aco.com.au or via the link in our bio.
#ACO24Season #AustralianChamberOrchestra
This is a very timely session at @sydwritersfest next week… two incredible writers @juliabaird and @hollygoeslightly talk about how to flatten fear and give yourself over to joy and grace even in the darkest of times….
Get on it I’d advise…. Tix through @sydwritersfest
