Sipping my coffee this morning I noticed ruefully that my cookbook shelf is bowing. My first reaction was not to cull the weight, but to ponder (rather unhelpfully for my shelf) which books I would keep if push came to shove...

Melbourne's Vue de Monde proved the perfect setting for Australian House & Garden to launch the 2011 Top 50 Rooms issue. Industry elite eagerly awaited the unveiling of the year's 50 best rooms as well as the presentation of the inaugural Room of the Year award.

Evacuate the house, I'm cleaning the oven!

We had talked about it for weeks. The fact that we should do it and could do it. Would we though?

Much excitement here at the H&G offices this afternoon – our April cover is a finalist in The Maggies!