716. LA Diary

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LA diary: the week that was in LA!

THE GREAT AUSSIE BITE
Matt and I got invited but Aussie Tourism to attend the “Great Australian Bite” and can I say, it was wonderful. It was hosted at Curtis Stone’s “Four Stones” farm in Agoura Hills (which is essentially like the hinterland of Malibu). It was stunning, he has his own vineyard out there and he was legit cooking us dinner. Well, us and 350 other souls, the location was so pretty!
All the booze was local Aussie owned and created too. The star of the show was this slow cooked spiced lamb shanks with dates and pistachios. The passionfruit custard tart was pretty special too!
It was such a fun way to spend a day in California!

MUM IN TOWN
Mum landed a couple of days ago, she’s off to NYC now but she had a couple of days to kick the jet lag here in LA, we took to her a belated mothers day brunch at a place in Highland Park called “Highly Likely” I got a great GF turkey sando, Boss got the brekkie burrito and Mum got this delish savoury Japanese dish.
She’s off to NYC now and I’m jealous because she’s seeing Denzel in Othello and George Clooney in Good Night and Good Luck! It’s going to be unreal, she’s in for such a treat!
We’ll be catching up next week when she’s in Memphis.

LAST OF US
We’re house sitting for our lovely friends this week and they have HBO so it’s been such a treat to be watching season 2 of The Last of Us, we’ve just seen the most heartbreaking episode. Matt was mortified, ah it’s such a brilliant show. And you know how I feel about anything Pedro Pascal!

MEMPHIS and NASHVILLE PLANING
For an early birthday pressies for mum I’ve booked us tickets to Graceland, so I think she’ll love that. We’re also hoping to visit Sun Studios and the Civil Rights museum. I’m then spending a day in Nashville before heading back to LA so if you have any Nashville or Memphis tips please let me know!
Righto, that’s me from LA, no auditions this week but have booked a laser skin appointment and getting my hair dyed again so I’ll do fresh head shots in a couple of weeks.

Big love from La La Land,

Lola

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to your diary episode. Here's the thing. I'm a
bit of a nomad, so these episodes come to you
from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,
so I'll share with you what's going on in my world,
from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health
discoveries to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay beaches. Come with

(00:25):
me as I share my adventures with you. Hello, right
t oh, Welcome to LA Diary. Usually this is an
LA actor diary, but I've done no auditions this week,
so it's more of an LA diary for you know,
LA living. So we've had a really big week the

(00:48):
beginning or last weekend, so not the beginning of the week,
but the beginning of how long I record these diaries
for because obviously I record them on a Thursday, they
come out on a Friday, and their diaries so on
Saturday week Saturday, the weekend just gone, we went to
this unreal banana peel event called the Great Australian Bite.

(01:11):
Thank you Australia for taking us. So basically it was
all hosted and curated by Curtis Stone. It was put
on by Sea Australia and the La Times. There was
about three hundred and fifty people there and all the
food was aussy or the booze was assy. It was
in this area called Agora Hills, which for OSSI's imagine

(01:34):
like the hinderland of Byron Bay. It's the hinderland of
Malibu essentially, and it's like wine country vibes, gorgeous stuns,
like you're in the hills, so so pretty. The food
was incredible. I actually stole a menu to tell you
about it. So when we first got in does it
have the barbecued stuff? We were happy, No, it doesn't.

(01:55):
But there were these like was it lamb ribs boot?
It was like this lamb rib situation with some tanziki
on top. So good and Curtistone was literally at the
barbecue making them for everyone. And then there was all
like local Aussie wines. There was local Australian whiskey from Melbourne,
the brand called Starwood. I actually met the owner and creator.

(02:19):
He was lovely, David was his name. And then it
was just like this sit down meal, but like we
were sitting outside in the middle of this kind of
vineyard and it was it's Curdistone's farm called four Stones
Farm after him, his wife and his two kiddos, very
very cute, very sweet, and it was just this beautiful

(02:41):
sit down in a matt and I didn't know anyone,
so everyone we met became a new butto essentially and
it was just so nice. So such a fun way
to like celebrate Australia but whilst being in California. But
I want to tell you what the standout meals were
so we had. It was all curated by Curdistone and

(03:02):
this other chef called Claire. What is her second name,
It just says Chef Claire, Chef Curdistone. But yeah, the
four Stones Farm on May thirty first hosted by Australia
and the Los Angeles Time. I think Quantus was a
sponsor as well as well as Visit Canberra. But anyway,

(03:23):
there so my favorite meal that we had was the
spiced Magara lamb shanks with dates and pistachios. We also
had grilled Australian blackmore striplin that was Boss's favorite. Then
there was a watermelon cactus fruit and tomato salad and
duck fat potatoes. They were also insane to the membrane.

(03:45):
They were amazing. But dessert was a passion fruit custard
tart that was so yummy. And then when we left
we got this dark chocolate and raspberry Lamington takeaway. Oh
so delish, so yummy. Loved it, and yeah, thank you
so much AUSI Tourism and Australia and all of that

(04:07):
for having us. It was such a treat and it
was so nice. We met some cool travel influencers and
food influencers as well that are based like here and
in Canada, so that was really really sweet. Didn't know
any Aussies there, didn't know anyone else there. I had
done work with Curtis maybe ten years ago on a
Cohle's campaign back in Australia, but I don't think he'd

(04:29):
remember me from a barusope, if I'm being honest. So
like there was nobody we knew. We were just going
in and Boss is like such a chatty kathy. I
am definitely more of an introvert and get a little
bit more uncomfortable in social situations, but Boss was amazing
and he always is his little butterfly. The other news
is we have Mum in town, so she landed a

(04:52):
couple of days ago to Lax. And that's always an
adventure anyone. If you ever fly to Lax and a
friend picks you up for I'm the airport, I swear
to you it is the highest act of love. I
picked Boss up the week before and then I picked
mumed up Mom up the Sunday, so like seven days apart.
I picked them both up and I was like, Holy Mac,
is such an adventure. Dropping off in Lax is a

(05:14):
little easier because you're just dropping someone to the side.
It's much harder to navigate picking up, finding what pillar
they're at, what terminal they're at, especially if you know
someone's coming from Australia and doesn't have an international phone
number or anything like that. Handy tip and I tell
this to everyone i'm picking up is your WiFi. The
second you walk outside the doors, it doesn't work. So

(05:36):
you've got to walk all the way back in to
get the Wi Fi, which time's out after like fifteen minutes,
and kind of like get messages across anyway. So Mom's back.
We took her out for a belated Mother's Day brunch
at a place in Highland Park called highly Likely Really Yummy.

(05:56):
I got this really good gluten free turkey, Sando Boss
got this brecky burrito, and Mum got this really yummy
like savory Japanese porridge. Almost I would describe it as.
So she's already on her way to New York. In fact,
I think she's just landed. She's seeing Othello tonight with
Denzil Washington. Then in two more nights she's seeing Goodnight,

(06:19):
Good Luck with George Clooney. So she's in for such
a treat. But I really was God. I was nearly
going to go to New York with her, but I
have used all my pato up at the Yaks studio.
So instead I'm meeting her in Memphis, and we're doing
an Elvis kind of trip. So we're gonna do Memphis
together for a couple of days. I've booked her Graceland

(06:40):
as an early birthday pressie, and then I think we're
gonna try and go Civil Rights Museum, Sun's Studios. Apparently
Memphis is known for its amazing barbecue food, so check
all that out. And then Mum leaves Memphis and I'm
getting a bus to Nashville, and I'm doing a day
in Nashville and then out Nashville to La. So that's

(07:02):
all booked, all sorted, So if you have any Memphis
tips for me or any Nashville tips for me, please
please let me know. So excited to check it out.
Apparently Beale Street has a really good vibe. There's also
apparently this like pro Bass Shop, which is like essentially

(07:22):
a fishing shop, but it's like its own indoor mall
with like like people stayed there. There's a hotel within there.
There's like water features with like I think sharks in them.
I don't know. It just looks very otherworldly, if I'm
being honest, don't know if we'll get there. I think
we definitely want to make sure we tick off all

(07:42):
the elvas stuff and then next week, so excited. Next week,
mumfet and Son's pumped. I think I'm gonna cry. Definitely
gonna get me some merch. Definitely gonna get me some merch.
And I've also booked therapy for next week, so I'm
really trying to just like have therapy really regularly so

(08:03):
that I can, you know, just move some mountains to
be honest and like really move forward. La is an
amazing city. It's also a really tough city, and it
can feel really isolating sometimes and then it can feel
amazing at other times. And so I just want to
keep that like mental health peace ticking along and constantly growing,

(08:24):
constantly processing, you know, and just like essentially to be
really honest with you just leveling up and just be
getting clearer and clearer and clearer and really clean on
like or very clear on like clean boundaries and clear on.
Like I'm I love when I meet people that are
just like so self aware and it's just so clear
that they've done a shit ton of work on themselves
if I'm being really honest, And for me, I'm just

(08:47):
like I aspire to be that way. I want to
live in a place of freedom and truth and clarity.
And I think that that comes from a lot of
mental health work. And so I'm in it with my
beautiful therapist right now. So we are doing lots of
work together. I'm looking at all our notes from the

(09:08):
last session. We did a lot of work around letting
go of control, around freedom around here. I've got a
note here, do something for yourself other Oh yeah, I
have this thing where it's probably a little bit overshare,
but like I love when parents come to visit and stuff.

(09:30):
But I sometimes like get a little bit anxious because
I kind of lose a little bit of like how
I like to live. Which is normal. That's traveling, that's
having people in town visiting. This is a place people holiday.
And my beautiful therapist said to me, do something for
yourself other than just being your mum's daughter. He's like,
you are that, and have fun being that, but also

(09:52):
make sure you do something for yourself, which is why
when we booked Memphis, I just added the little Nashville
day on for myself. I could just like, you know,
I want to go to the Grand Old Opry and
just like do something just for me. And so we
unpacked a little bit of that and he really sat
in me and was like, don't lose sight of who

(10:13):
you are ever. And that wasn't around a parent thing
at all. That was actually around more of a work
thing and getting really clear on what my boundaries are
with work and what my boundaries are around like what
I'm here in La doing and what I want to
do more of and whatnot. So it was really really
good to do that. We are house sitting for our

(10:37):
wonderful friends who are away at the moment, So you're
not getting an oracle card reading today. But because they
have HBO, we've been watching The Last of Us and
I'm going to give no spoilers except that last night's
episode was particularly heartbreaking. It's an incredible show. You know
how I feel about Pedro Pascal, love him Zad, But yeah,

(11:01):
the show is incredible. If you haven't, I know, we're
like three months late to the party, But if you
haven't watched The Last of Us season two, it's in
cred and we're loving watching it. So yeah, I'm gonna
leave you with something my therapist taught me, and it
is just like a good little motto to maybe take
into your weekend if you're listening to this on a
Friday straight, stay true to who you are and why

(11:25):
you're here. Stay true to who you are and why
you're here. I love it. Totally purpose driven and yeah,
I'm still working on this concept of relentless honesty. I
think I've mentioned it a few weeks ago, and I
saw it in an interview a month and a Sun's interview,
and I love it so much, and it's a really

(11:45):
for me. It's like a really nice accountability peace to myself.
You know, all right, So that is the week that was.
That is the LA update for you, and I'm sure
I have lots to update you on next week. I'm
getting some skin treatments done here, I'm getting my hair

(12:07):
dyed on in the next week, and then I'm gonna
do fresh headshots. I've booked my buddy to take my headshots,
so I'll do all of that in the next couple
of weeks. So still humming along with all the acting stuff.
Notoriously acting dies in Alay in summer, which we're about
to hit in like July ish, So I'm just trying
to kind of like get ahead, cross my t's dot

(12:29):
my eyes. You know, all right, friends, hooru, hooro. I
think you're wonderful. Also, you know, I'm obsessed with substack.
I just hit one hundred followers, so thank you for
following or subscribing. And I put a whole album up
of the Great Aussie Bite today as well, so if
you want to see any of that, all that food.
I was talking to you about the delish lamb with
the dates and the pistachios or this incredible like passion

(12:52):
fruit caustter tar. It was more of a Portuguese tart.
If you're a Portuguese tart, that is for you of
Portuguese tart person, not a Portuguese tart. No judgment if
you are one, all right, Okay, make a love, make
a love, make a love and have a rip a day.
I'm going to leave you with that beautiful note from
my therapist. Stay true to who you are and why

(13:14):
you're here, all right, big love boy,