Dine with a difference

24/06/2024

Thankyou for all the birthday love yesterday, l feel spoiled from you all, l tried to thankyou all personally but if l have missed you thankyou.

24/06/2024

Dine with a Difference has ditched the marquees,
Find us in our new food van At Mirboo North Market on Saturday 29th with our usual yummy food.

20/05/2024

Canolli anyone?

20/05/2024

17/12/2023

15/11/2023

05/11/2023

We were surprised with this award at the whittlesea show.

08/10/2023

Certainly was Dining with a Difference at Elmore field days recently.

12/07/2023

We are so excited that you're so excited!!

Have you heard? Christmas in The Boo is back - Friday 8th December 2023!

Our inbox is filling up with requests for stalls! To keep you in the loop, we will not be advertising for stallholders this year and in the first instance, vendors from the 2022 event have been contacted to register their interest.

Once we have been through that process, we will be filling any gaps from our waiting list. Vendors are very welcome to pop their details into the waiting list by filling out this form:

www.booevents.com.au/event-waiting-list

Although we can't believe we are talking Christmas already, we can't wait to bring all the family fun to the BOO again this year! 🎅

12/07/2023

23/06/2023

27/04/2023

Best ever canolli at Mirboo North market tomorrow

27/04/2023

OK, this is a GOOD market alert!
Yes, we are in for some showers tonight and the “occasional shower” tomorrow morning. Pfft!
But we want do highlight FOUR important things to everyone before Saturday’s dawn and Market Day.

One: We have 120 sites allocated across 88 stall holders! This is truly wonderful and thanks to all those stall holders who are supporting the town and our projects - but it necessitates some reconfiguration of the market to accommodate everyone in as linear a fashion as possible.
THEREFORE
Two: Please bring a brolly for the showers and sensible shoes as some of the stalls are a little bit in the grass, in order to make room for everyone.

Three: Our Music programme is building. You may recall we have partnered with Mirboo Music as our Market Music Directors and this market they will be staffing a gazebo to start to publicise the group, what it is doing - and seeking more members to come on board - of the playing or financial support kind! Further down the track we plan to have them and other music acts as a regular feature of the Market. So, hop in and visit them and support this very worthwhile community group! Read the quick overview from group’s founder, Peter McCarthy, below.
Four: We are delighted to be able to host the Mirboo North Ambulance Auxiliary this month as they raise much needed funds for the local needs of the service. They will be raffling a trailer load of firewood (thanks Wednesday Warriors!) and will be up between the Rose arch and the ANZAC monument. And don't forget - Paula and the crew from Mirboo North Chaplaincy will be fundraising at the BBQ Centre as well!
See you 0830 Saturday!

Mirboo Music - a beginning…

Mirboo Music was originally started as an opportunity for shift workers and folk not in 9 to 5 work to have a jam session at a more convenient time than the usual evening sessions. It was also hoped it would encourage folk to get out of the house and engaged with like minded folk in a relaxed and friendly environment.

After our very first session Covid lock downs hit, and it became obvious that when restrictions were lifted, it would become necessary to help folk back out into their communities and music might just be the key.

I was wondering if a small community like ours with only about 2,500 residents would be able to sustain itself, but happily Gippsland has many towns within easy reach, so the target audience is far larger than I suspected.

We now have a collective of around 80 members in our FaceBook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/405633191306035), plus a number of others who don’t use Social and numbers are still growing even though we haven’t focused on getting ourselves known. Actual turn out for a session is generally around 8 to 10, and we can easily accommodate more.

So if you are someone who used to play an instrument or sing (or both) and are thinking about playing with others, or perhaps a backroom guitar hack who has never discovered the fun of playing in a group setting (like me), have a think about joining us.

You can see our playlist under the Files section of our FB group, which you can download and practice, if you don’t want to pop in "cold". But don’t be worried about how expert you can play. We all just muck in and it comes out with our own flavour of whatever we play. It’s great fun.

25/04/2023

Find all this yummy food at the Mirboo North Market at Dine with a difference, this Saturday from 8.30

26/02/2023

Keep an eye out for the 2023 Mildura Field Days Prospectus which will be in your inbox real soon and available from the website.
https://www.mildurafielddays.com.au/

26/02/2023

Everyone’s favourite spud races are BACK! 🥳

🥔 The Vin Rowe Spud Challenge
🥔 Experienced/Open Pickers Race
🥔 Ladies Pick n Stack
🥔 Junior Pickers Race
🥔 Pallet Throw

There’s great prizes 💰 up for grabs, so get training (or don’t, if that’s your style!) and we’ll see you at the start line! 🏃

10/02/2023

Looking for a 𝐆𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 option? We've got plenty ...

Make sure you find Melbourne Arancini (also offering a Vegan option), Abruzzo Lab, Eat Cannoli, Trulli Pizza, Pellegrino Pizza, Slinky Spuds, Lady Paella, Dine with a Difference, Leongatha Lions, Mirboo North FNC, Pino's Trattoria (GF Gelato), Mavros Deli and That's Amore!

𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐚, 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐨! 🇮🇹

10/02/2023

WHAT'S ON!

There is so much happening at the Mirboo North Italian Festa on Sunday the 12th of Feb! Check out the Program of events by visiting our website www.italianfesta.net so that you can plan your day and not miss a thing!

10/02/2023

04/02/2023

BOOLARRA FOLK FESTIVAL 2023 PERFORMER PROFILE:
FROLIC AND DETOUR

Penelope Swales and Chris Jobe take two-part harmony singing to the next level with their new duo Frolic and Detour. Penelope’s rich contralto blends beautifully with Chris’s sweet tenor, backed up with a blend of guitar, ukulele and whistle. They present a mix of quirky originals and eccentric covers mixing hilarity with heart.

Penelope Swales is an award-winning songwriter and performer who has been knocking around the folk scene since the late 90’s. She has put out 10 solo albums and toured all over the world both solo and with her all-gourd extravaganza band Totally Gourdgeous, with whom she has also released 5 albums. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award for her song Cambridge Analytica, and Totally Gourdgeous won the 2008 Folk Alliance Australia Members Choice Award for Best Live Act. She lives in Boolarra with her partner, guitar maker Jack Spira and runs a small market garden. She had a brief and perplexing career as a lawyer but regrets she is unable to give legal advice via Facebook.

Chris Jobe is a songwriter and music teacher hailing from San Remo. He started playing in bands as a teenager and played all over Melbourne from 1994 to 2008 in various line-ups including 10 years in Melbourne underground sensation Oscar. In 2008 he became a father and started playing to a more select audience with such stellar domestic hits as “You Make Me So Happy (Even When You Sh*t Your Nappy)”, “Scrunchy the Wonder Lamb” and “There’s Nothing Wrong With Eleanor (That a Cuddle Wouldn’t Fix)”. During lockdowns he began collaborating online, which inspired him to get back out and start playing live again.

The name “Frolic and Detour” comes from a legal doctrine that quantifies just how much damage an employer should be liable for when employees goof off and start doing their own thing.