Here is a gem of a photograph from France which reflects the sexual politics of the moment. However, has anyone ever seen French president Francois Hollande smile? Must be heavily photoshopped because he is not a smiley fellow. He must have something mysterious though to trigger such a bitter war of words for his affections between […]
Sexual politics in France will never be the same now that the not-so-secret love affair between French president Francois Hollande and French actress Julie Gayet has been exposed by the magazine Closer. In the past French presidents have been shielded from scandal by a discreet media and a French people who were not interested in […]
I write my tribute to our fallen Australian soldiers at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month on Armistice Day when peace was finally signed after the four year Hell which was the Great War 1914-1918. We remember the catastrophic trench warfare in Belgium, Flanders and Northern France when the French people lost […]
It was so thrilling to see a dose of Australia on French television on 20 Heures, the daily news/current affairs program which filmed a segment on The Ghan trip to Alice Springs. The program goes to air on SBS daily at 8:40 am to 9:20am as a repeat of the night before screened in France. […]
With such a proliferation of glamorous cookbooks in the marketplace, the “Bible’’ of them all – the new English edition of the French encyclopedia of cooking, Larousse Gastronomique is on sale for a hefty $145.00. It was originally published in 1938 in French, but the first English translation wasn’t until 1961. This new edition has […]
For me, this has been an exhilarating week of girlie stuff: a strange French woman staying in my house, a glorious garden party with heaps of girlfriends, a girls’ night in delightful accommodation, a Friday lunch to celebrate a much younger female friend’s fiftieth and afternoon tea with my beloved sister. There was the lunch-hour […]
my idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors
actress Bette Midler
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