Perfect Sunday

Sundays in the city of Melbourne can be perfect. Rain or shine, there is always something to do, see, eat and to ponder over. Melbourne is a thinking city and I think our Lady Melbourne has a brain and is not afraid to use it.

There is conjecture of the sun sign of Melbourne, I like to think of the Melbourne we know now as a Gemini, when John Batman signed a questionable 'treaty' with the Wurundjeri Tribe on June 6th.
Before it was named Melbourne, it was known as Batmania. Imagine that, it really would be our own Gotham City.

This morning, and a perfect one at that, I have traipsed though Carlton, Brunswick and the City. The skies are blue, the air has a slight chill, which is easily remedied by walking on the sunny side of the street and there is a sense of possibility in the air.

I treated this morning in our fair city with a silk scarf jauntily tied around my neck and this effort was rewarded with a multitude of compliments. Melbournians appreciate any fashionable endeavour or attempt, so incredibly Gemini, always one the classiest in the room. You know the sort, Diane Von Furstenburg wrap dress, Clergerie shoes and terribly modern jewelery from some new cool designer about to be bought by Browns or Harvey Nicks in London. They do it better than anyone, maybe even Taureans, who opt for the heirloom pearls over the modern jewels.

San Francisco is also a Gemini city, which, those of you who read this blog, would know is one of my fave cities other than Lady Melbourne. London is also a Gemini, theatre, art, music and food. There are similarities between all three Grand Dames.

Gemini's motto is "I think". Quick thinking, quick witted and with an endless creative well to draw upon, Geminis in any form embrace change and variety.
As an air sign Melbourne as a city is logical and make sense. This is evidenced by the design of the inner city with all major roads following a traditional north, south, east west system.
The city is divided by the Yarra river, which reflects the duality of the Gemini nature.

Geminis can be snobs and I am afraid Lady Melbourne can dish out a type of bourgeois intellectualism that makes out-of-towners laugh at her try hard affectations. But in true Gemini style, she dismisses any criticism and focuses on the writing, the coffee and great design.

Geminis are also a little moralistic, perhaps at times puritanical, and this is never more proved by the way Melbournians look down at their racy, sexy cousin Sydney, I think secretly Melbournians like to party in Sydney but are happy to come back to their knits and penguin paperbacks. What happens in Sydney stays in Sydney to a Melbournian. They will never mention the great views, seafood and the fact they wore a singlet without a cardigan in public, only Sydney has the power to truly corrupt a Melbournians values and fashion sense.

Ah, Lady Melbourne, you make me proud and happy to be a part of your fickle, elegant and classy city.

I love this town.