AJA – 100th year
Leak: the new four-letter word. “Leak’’ is the new four-letter word, according to veteran political journalist, Laurie Oakes in accepting the highest accolade in journalism – the 2010 Gold Walkley...
View ArticleBoomers Bubble To Burst as Retirees.
If ever there were prophetic words uttered recently, they were delivered by high profile demographer Bernard Salt to the National Press Club. He gave yet another gripping scenario of what it means for...
View Article100 years of French cultural ties celebrated with haute cuisine.
Alliance Francaise d’Adelaide, affectionately dubbed “the frog pond’ celebrated its 100th anniversary in an unlikely venue – the elite Queen Adelaide Club on Monday night. However, the French language...
View ArticleTime
Annie Fox, one of my Facebook friends has a habit of placing one word online for comment and possibly because another New Year is nigh, she threw in the word “time’’. Her move followed another...
View ArticleMy Best Christmas:
It is a few days before Christmas in London and I am decking the halls of my daughter’s house with holly and tinsel. The year is 2006 and I have walked down her street – Bernard Gardens – with a pair...
View ArticleElsa an inspirational French teacher
Never has learning French been so inspiring as this week’s lesson in the rose garden of Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens. My French teacher is Argentinian-born and now new Australian citizen, Elsa Rozannes...
View ArticleA moment with Margaret
In the midst of the Christmas shopping frenzy I met an old woman in a wheelchair and she called out to me in barely legible words that she was selling a book for $2 a copy. “It’s a book of my...
View ArticleBreast Cancer – A Beast of a Disease
Life can be such a bitch! Over the past few weeks two close friends have been diagnosed with breast cancer and had operations to have breast lumps removed and diagnosed. It means that today,...
View ArticlePhilipa’s Christmas: How Arts Decoratifs create joy
This is the house, so glorious with colourful Christmas arts decoratifs that it could well be used as Santa’s cave. It is laden with the exotic style and Christmas cheer of new-found Goolwa friend...
View ArticleMy Hand-made Christmas
We wanted something different and special to decorate our island home for Christmas because we didn’t want rummage through our storage pile of boxes to the artificial Christmas tree. And with...
View ArticleWonderful Wildlife, Wine and Art on KI
People flock to Kangaroo Island to see the wildlife and landscape, but it only when you stop to meet the locals, that their stories reveal its human face and how 10 per cent of the population are...
View ArticleStrathalbyn : fun community day for cyclists and fans.
We were screaming fans yesterday at Strathalbyn, for theSantos Tour Down Under stage 4, banging on the barriers as Aussie rider Cameron Meyer outsprinted Thomas DeGendt in a dash to the wire. The two...
View ArticleNature’s flower bower
Last week I shared how sweet it was to gather olive branches and thistles from the roadside on our wedding anniversary. And here is the result – a free, floral arrangement which lasted a week in our...
View ArticleA Mt Compass “Cup” of a different kind:
He was nimble enough as a slim, small waiter delivering a tray of coffees and cake, but it was bandy legs which hinted at a former life in the saddle. And there were other telltale signs too. Barry...
View ArticlePheasant Veronique:
What do we cook to celebrate our wedding anniversary dinner? Something grand for just the two of us to be served on the terrace at twilight overlooking the River Murray, which is fast flowing past our...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day 2011
The new year begins with ham and eggs on hot, buttered muffins for breakfast at our Hindmarsh Island home before we take our friends on a tourist drive of Goolwa over the bridge from where we live....
View ArticleThe Essence of Personal Style
How hard it is to define one’s personal style, yet British author, Kirsty Gunn in her best-selling book 44 Things: A Year of Life at Home captures her step-mother, Irene so beautifully in the following...
View ArticleSome days are stones-1
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2011, 2pm: Not a good day. I am in the doctor’s surgery with my French/Australian husband, Olivier, who has been treated for prostatitis, an infection of the prostate gland. It...
View ArticleFeminism fails girl in the telephone box
International Women’s Day, when we celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women, calls to mind an incident yesterday. I had called into a supermarket close to the controversial...
View Article“It’s a big story from a little finger”.
Monday, January 24. In one of the Beatles’ popular songs, there is a line “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans’’, and this captures the terror of today. We are sitting in another...
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