Being green is easy – despite what Kermit says. It just takes some creativity. The inventors of Green Hanger – the environmentally conscious coathanger – come from good stock, associated with Rose Street Artists Market among other things. Who’d have thought that we had such a huge appetite for wire coathangers – albeit shortlived? Some 77 million end up as landfill each year. Made from recycled cardboard, the Green Hanger is a good-looking, mindful alternative.

After the abundant autumn rain we’ve had, mushrooms are…er…mushrooming up everywhere. A morning walk through the countryside looking for your lunch is a treat this time of year. But to avoid it possibly being your last supper, it’s important to go with someone who knows their slippery jacks from their poisonous toadstools. Cameron Russel is one such expert, and he is taking tours throughout May in the valleys and vines of T’Gallant winery on the Mornington Peninsula.
There are two Sunday sessions, 10am and 11.45am, including a tasting plate and glass of pinot, which shares the same flavour spectrum with mushrooms didn’t you know.

Like eBay? You’re gonna love Etsy – the ‘place to buy and sell all things handmade’.
WARNING: Have water and maybe a snack handy; you’re gonna be a while.
This worldwide marketplace showcases thousands upon thousands of things made - and often conceived - by the seller, from whom you buy directly (so it’s generally inexpensive). Need some thing that’s red? Search all categories by colour. Want to buy local? Search by location. Or just browse. Even if you buy nothing, it’s pure inspiration to see how many creative people there are out there turning ideas into things.

Top-10s aren't very slow, so we thought we'd come up with a Top Nine - in no particular order. In the end, we settled for eight top suggestions of Slow things to do in April...we don't want anyone rushing about:

1) Take a picnic out to Werribee Park's Helen Lempriere Sculpture Awards
2) See the galaxy's pin-up planet, Saturn, through the roof of the RBG's historic Observatory
3) Join one of the free Autumn Walks at the RBG
4) Immerse yourself in warm autumn colours at the Alfred Nicholas Gardens in Sherbrooke
5) Subscribe to RRR during April Amnesty
6) Listen for frogs while mooching for plants at the Indigenous Nurseries Co-op on Yarra Bend
7) Learn to alter your favourite vintage buys at Thread Den
8) Go to Ceres: it's having a Slow Day April 20 squared at families

Evidence of the joy of music...watch the drummer.

We’ve all got personal landmarks about town: where we kissed someone we shouldn’t have, where we saw Patti Newton getting into her car, where we were when we got that phonecall.

Melbourne, and Other Myths at the City Museum conveys three personal histories of the city, by characters who might be real. There’s the heartbroken academic, the chap chasing fame and the woman obsessed with Harry Houdini’s 1910 visit to the city - which really happened. But how much else is true is less certain.

That the show is at a museum rather than a gallery calls into question the construction of histories by museum curators and writers: invariably they rely on their imaginations to interpret events, people and places, not just facts. This show mixes fact and fiction to inspire viewers to use their imaginations, to see the layers of Melbourne’s past, its emotions and spirits.

Until 25 May. $3.

While we’ve all been clinging to summer - pretending it’s an hour earlier than it actually is - the city has been working with the shorter days: shrugging off leaves, changing palettes and shifting temperature zones.

Now that daylight-savings has finished, we’re back in sync with nature and more in tune with autumn’s pink skies and its orange-, red- and yellow-coloured gardens. It’s the time for brittle mornings that give way to clear, sunny afternoons; cardigans and mittens, then sundresses or T-shirts.

Make some time this week for catching leaves as they fall from surrounding trees or for kicking through gutters filled with leaf litter. Or, do as autumn does, and shed something you no longer need and make way for a period of contemplation.

The Helen Lempriere Sculpture Awards are on (til 1 June). Not that we needed more reasons to visit Werribee. There's the mansion, preserving the 19th-century high life of the Chirnside brothers and their bizarre love triangle. There's the open-range zoo, slated for a bazillion-dollar transformation into a Village Roadshow theme park (sigh). Shadowfax winery is there – not bad. And visiting Werribee means fart jokes, and we all know how fun they are.

Walking into the exquisite formal gardens of Werribee Mansion during the sculpture awards has the ability to evoke a childish delight (not unlike fart jokes). Finding the sculptures falling out of trees, propped on the lawn, on the lake or beside the path feels serendipitous. And many of this year’s entrants appeal to childhood play: a giant paper plane, a Meccano caravan and the Model Family (not to be missed) around the back of the mansion.