It’s known as Adelaide’s seedy strip, but renowned naïve artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison has captured Hindley Street in a whole new light – as a colourful, eccentric streetscape – and her images are to be taken to the world on a new range of contemporary bed linen. The naïve artwork has been reproduced on the Art’N’Bed […]
Marie’s Take on Hindley Street A Winner.
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A Memorable Encounter with Music
Today, June 23, is Olivier’s birthday and a strange thing happened. Friends Ruth and Graham Bettany invited me to visit them at Oakbank in the Adelaide Hills to keep my mind off the significance of the first big “anniversaire” since his death six weeks ago. Ruth took me to Avalon, a new purpose-built cafe in […]
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Mushrooms and memories on hillside stroll
I am trying hard to nudge out grief from my mind by paying attention to the joy of life around me. There is delight simply by walking down my street with Oscar on his lead sniffing at every blade of grass and piddling to claim his territory. It is strange to do it alone, but […]
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France’s fleshy fungi taste “Magnifique!”
What to do with those two cepe mushrooms I found on the roadside? Well, a French recipe is a must because I first ate the fleshy fungi in France. I find a perfect recipe in Auguste Escoffier’s book 2,000 Favourite French recipes, which is the only one of his works written for the home cook. […]
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The bitch factor in French politics:
It comes as no surprise that former International Monetary Fund chief French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his high profile wife Anne Sinclair have split. The once-powerful French couple have parted after 20 years of marriage following yet another scandal involving Strauss-Kahn according to the French weekly magazine Closer. The separation was on the cards […]
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Lunch reveals lives of older boomers
We are seven women of a certain age, who are lunching together at Kate’s place to celebrate my long-time friend Sheryl’s birthday. Sheryl is a baby boomer creeping further into her early 60s and we range in age from her sister, Diane, the youngest at 58 years of age to Margaret, who is 70 years […]
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