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 champions led the spectacular peloton by about 30 seconds racing at about 60kms an hour in a thrilling finish to a […]
Eighteenth century French writer, Voltaire in his novel Candido, says “Il faut cultiver notre jardin’’, which means “we must cultivate our garden’’. He is writing metaphorically that it is important to cultivate the spirit within as well as the beautiful things in our life. This gem of French literature was unearthed by my French teacher, […]
Pop goes the French champagne cork of my life on the eve of 2011. How else to capture the fabulous happenings of 2010 which have taken Olivier’s and my life together to a higher plane. Goodness. Who would have imagined I would sell the film option for my best-selling book From France With Love, but […]
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 ingenuity, we have created a beautiful Christmas tree from half dozen dead pine branches still with pine cones attached, which we sprayed silver. They […]
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 Philipa, who sits amidst the living room’s splendour with her doggie, Misty, on her lap. Misty has a festive collar, too, […]
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 of clippers helping myself to branches from holly hedges, all laden with beautiful red […]
my idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors
actress Bette Midler
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