Denise and Frank Kuss had a yearning for a different life from the typical suburban cycle of work and busy city living. Here is their story becoming B&B owners of the old Stanley Grammar School, now their Stanley Grammar Country House, Watervale, Clare Valley. “I had worked for The Advertiser as a secretary for many […]
Former Adelaide business leader, Mandy Keillor has been as straight as her black bob hair style all her life. Now at 47 years of age, she admits to having turned lesbian in her late 30s after being wooed by a gay woman who was her pilates instructor. “Natalia is a lesbian and left a female […]
Auntie Lilian, my father Frank’s younger sister turned 90 and I threw an afternoon tea for relatives to celebrate . The old lady, who lives in a self-contained hostel unit, is the matriarch of our large extended famil. My 93-year-old dad and my other two surviving aunties, Yvonne and Betty, her widowed sisters-in-law were other […]
Congratulations to the indominable Maria Kenda, AM, who gathered together an impressive group of renowned women to relaunch the Adelaide Ladies Lunch Club at the Naval, Military &Air Force Club of South Australia (Inc.) this week. Maria launched the club in the 1980s and due to the success of her jewellery design business, Kendacraft, it […]
Philipa Charlesworth had been married too many times beforehand to ever be a Bridezilla when she married her fifth husband Bruce Pattullo on an idyllic beach in Tonga. “Because I have had many weddings I had an enlightening moment on the day of my wedding when I thought “This is wonderful…I have never married when […]
By Julie House July 2011 When I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in January this year, I was 53 years old and terrified. Insulted too. I had been practising yoga for years and considered myself fit and healthy. Why did I have cancer? My diet hadn’t always been optimal, stress levels had been difficult for […]
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