Quack Quack about Le Petit Canard Restaurant in Paris
By SERENA WILLIAMS: One of my “when I retire” fantasies is to have a native duck sanctuary cum farm. The idea would be to create a healthy environment for native ducks and geese and any species that...
View ArticleOmeo: A Gem of a place.
the Great alpine Road at Conner’s Lookout Omeo, with its grand goldrush-inspired buildings, is the idyllic mining town setting for the recent Australian film Patrick Hughes’ Red Hill. Not surprising....
View ArticleLake Eyre – a stunning shimmering inland sea
It’s a phenomenon in our lifetime to peer below at Australia’s vast inland sea – Lake Eyre filled with water, so crystal clear it mirrors the sky. Where once there was only that barren, crusty, salty...
View ArticleCreative Cry from Country
It is ironic that poet and actor Michelle Murray stands in an historic witness box at the South Coast Regional ArtsCentre – once the Goolwa court house, to spin her mythical story of The Black Wedding...
View ArticleOlivier’s sejourn in hospital
Husband is helpless in hospital following a harrowing dash by road from our island home to the regional Victor Harbor hospital at 6am this morning. Waves of fear washed over me as I gripped the wheel...
View ArticleJenny’s life exudes grace, courage, elegance:
Best friend Jenny turns 70 today and threw her own elegant afternoon tea for 70 guests at her home yesterday. Jenny has always loved beautiful things and her home was so pretty and colourful with...
View ArticleFrench fare for time-poor cooks
Pumpkin soup has never tasted so good with a touch of t urnip, thanks to the great French chef, Auguste Escoffier. The recipe book 2000 Favourite French Recipes was his final gift to French housewives...
View ArticleCentenarian Margot Bates a winner in pool and living well
Real men do eat steak if the gender imbalance in Buenos Aires Brasserie this week is any indicator. There were 20 men to just 6 women diners tucking into an array of steak and whole baby goat legs, the...
View ArticleFront Door heralds lock-up stage
The magnificent front door of our house was installed this week heralding lock-up stage. It ‘s an ornate Western Red Cedar door with leadlight panels and a side panel, which may beg the question why...
View ArticleVive la France en Australie du Sud
Guests dressed in 18th century French Revolution fashion will feast of an array of classic dishes prepared by InterContinental Hotel’s sous chef, French-born Frederick Boussard at the Bastille Day Gala...
View ArticleJohn Herbig’s harrowing China story
It is one of those harrowing travellers’ tales which bolts one to an armchair instead of flying to explore exotic places. Mt Pleasant man, John Herbig and his wife Sandra, wanted one more overseas trip...
View ArticleFrench chanteuse a classic Femme Fatale
French chanteuse Caroline Nin is set to deliver a fabulous dose of Parisian Cabaret chic in her award-winning show “Scarlet Stories’’ at the Vanguard, in Sydney July 30/31. It will follow her...
View ArticleA watery romance
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Sara Gruen,Water for Elephants, the movie is a Hollywood-style feel-good romantic love story set against the gritty background of 1930s circus life during the...
View Articlebirthdays are beautiful
Birthdays are beautiful ways to celebrate life and love. This year was my first Facebook birthday, which added an exciting new dimension to the many “joyeux anniversaire’’ cards, telephone calls,...
View ArticleThe Cancer odds of 1 in 2 hits our home
Life has dumped a heap of dirt on us again with Olivier spending another 10 days in hospital with unmanageable pain. The hormone treatment has failed to hold his advanced prostate cancer, which has...
View ArticleJulie’s cancer Journey
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...
View ArticlePhilipa’s Dream Wedding in Tonga
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...
View ArticleSuzanne shines at her first art show
Much-travelled emerging artist, Suzanne Tilley selected a fitting venue for her first solo Art Exhibition within the SALA festival, which opened Friday, August 19. Suzy has travelled far and wide with...
View ArticleFamily bearing food creates fun times
Food, glorious food is fundamental to the French people’s expression of family life and never was this expressed more warmly than when husband Olivier’s adult children and their partners visited...
View ArticleGracious hosts, glorious food & Grange:
Surprises are such fun and doubly so when an outstanding event is planned and orchestrated by your children to show their love and to say “thankyou’’ for being good parents. Such was our joy when we...
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