Category: celebs & culture

Where the “girls” are.

Still glamorous Chris Nicholls, once a founding partner of Rave Model Agency flew into Adelaide for the weekend with husband Rob for grandparents’ Day at Immanuel College where grand-daughter Chloe goes.  They visited us at Belair on Sunday bringing news of former David Jones model, Jeanette Zealand, who now lives close to Chris at Cooroy [...]

Monday May 7th, 2012 in celebs & culture | No Comments »

A Taste of the High Life on the High Seas

It is an idyllic April evening cruising in the Gulf St Vincent and I am enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime experience “steering” for a nonasecond, the multi-million dollar boat owned by renowned housing developer Gordon Pickard of Fairmont Homes fame. I am one of 13 women invited aboard for a special fund-raising think-tank for the Women’s and [...]

Tuesday April 10th, 2012 in celebs & culture | No Comments »

Lashings of Frenchness at Film Festival

The Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, opening in Adelaide on March 20, promises yet again that alluring mix of emotion, passion love, and drama – as well as a new genre – “A French Touch Around the World’’. It will present four films of the 45 in the festival this year, which will celebrate co-productions  [...]

Tuesday March 13th, 2012 in absolutely french, celebs & culture | No Comments »

Talent galore

[left] Valli, Jenny, Suzie, Sarah, Host Marie, Ursula and Lynley What a talent pool of artists this festival state of ours has spawned. When naïve artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison held a girlie lunch for a group of fellow female artists, they were invited to bring samples of their works which revealed amazing diversity in medium and [...]

Friday January 13th, 2012 in celebs & culture, my journal | No Comments »

Are We Any Different? by Cheryl Bridgart

Popular textile artist Cheryl Bridgart is delighted at the success of her present exhibition, Are We Any Different?  at the Adelaide Zoo’s exhibition space. As always, Cheryl presents her artworks with great style and the Zoo is the idea space for her mix of paintings and embroidery which depict the relationship between animals and humans [...]

Thursday January 12th, 2012 in celebs & culture, my journal | 1 Comment »

Snippet from Sweden

Thought I would share an email we received for New Year from former Adelaide celeb, Heather Caddick, now living in Sweden.  She had a travel article on her first Swedish Christmas published in The Australian last weekend, and she is happy for me to share her wonderful email. “Dear Nadine and Oliver, Sending you best [...]

Monday January 2nd, 2012 in celebs & culture | No Comments »