It was always going to be a spectacular dinner party. There were eight guests and we had gathered to celebrate the fact that my neighbour and friend Peter Dry, has won the Maurice O’Shea Award 2014 for excellence in the wine industry over his successful 40 year career. Peter and all of the three other male guests […]
If there is one thing which will keep ageing Baby Bpomers in the work force is the realisation that their long “bucket list’’ of activities for retirement will be unachievable. According to new research released recently by Rest Superannuation Fund, of 1000 people surveyed, less than one third believed they would be able to fulfil […]
Pity it wasn’t one of those multi-million dollar lotteries, but from the exhilaration from my son Tyson’s household you would think they had won the jackpot. However, in an exciting win, his wife, Vanessa’s name came up in the ballot results for reservations at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant at Melbourne’s Crown. Thousands missed […]
It is a beautiful Adelaide Hills garden setting and we are gathered in rows of white plastic chairs, not for a wedding, but for the saddest event. There is a tiny white coffin sitting on a lace-covered table cloth at the funeral of my niece Chelsea’s infant son, who was stillborn a week ago. Chelsea married her husband, Allan, last year, […]
If flowers fertilise the soul, then my spring garden with its gorgeous crop of fancy irises and first rose blooms are the reason for my tranquil pleasure. The lavender bushes are in flower, the herbs are lush, the pansies have yellow faces smiling at the sun and the “seduction’;’ roses are bursting out of their buds. With clippers in […]
It began as one of those lovely lazy spring days, which erupted into fright when the bloke visiting the house shouted “There’s a snake behind you!”. A nonisecond beforehand, he was quietly reading a novel in the living room and we two women were scanning cookbooks outside in the al fresco. “Quick! Where is a […]
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