Paris, the City of Light, has been plunged into darkness, fear and grief by a series of terrorist attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers, which have left 129 dead and 352 injured – 99 critically. In the wake of the shocking news which gripped the world this morning, comes the realisation that it was naive […]
The other night, at the height of a vicious storm, I had startling house visitors. I took this photograph of a mother koala and her baby terrified by the storm and trying to get into the house. Mother koala was literally pawing on my door and pacing back and forth. It was as if she […]
My father Frank Buxton, who died on October 1, aged 96, was a cheerful character whose sense of humour reflected a certain Britishness. He was born in Sheffield, England, on October 22, 1918, however, when he was a two-year-old tot, his parents Emily and Harry Buxton brought him to South Australia on board the SS Beltana with his babe-in-arms […]
The Advertiser today ran a good news story that new therapy could beat the most resistant prostate cancer. The new treatment, which acts on the immune system, achieved almost complete remission in mice when combined with chemotherapy. It was published on May 1, the same month my husband Olivier died of prostate cancer three years ago. He […]
Our Christmas celebrations are an expression of our family tradition, our fondness for food and our faith. It all began on Monday when my son Tyson and I visited my 96-year-old father in his residential facility. He was too frail to attend his family event in the evening, so he met my grandson Zachary for […]
Our Christmas celebrations are an expression of our family tradition, our love of food and our faith and I hope you enjoy these photographs which capture special moments. This year, for the first time, our father, Frank was too frail to attend the big family party, so we took my son’s family, here from Melbourne, […]
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