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All the glory of golden years of modelling

It was a joyous walk down memory lane for former Adelaide models of the 1960s-1980s who attended the GoldenYears of Modelling Reunion at the glitzy new Crown Plaza Hotel on Friday night. And an...

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Hats on for Spring Rose Garden Lunch

Quelle journée magnifique! The Lunch in a Spring Rose Garden was a glorious day, of wine and roses and fashion and delicious food at Carrick Hill to raise funds for Novita, the children’s charity....

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Ex-model, Faye gives BC hope

  My journey down the path of breast cancer began with the discover of a cyst in my left breast in 2001. This lump bothered me because I had been on hormone replacement theraphy for 11 years plus a...

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Courts and Judges on trial by Media

  Judges have been the victims of “rougher than usual media treatment’’ through “screaming headlines’’ and sensationalist television footage of controversial judgements, says award-winning Adelaide...

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Media Bullying Judges

Violent headlines and “angry language’’ by the media is bullying judges and having a negative impact on public opinion, according to retired High Court Judge, Justice Michael Kirby. And he listed a...

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A rose by the name of David Ruston

It was a rare treat to join the acclaimed rose identity David Ruston on a tour of his world-renowned rose garden and his early 20th century home at Renmark, in South Australia’s Riverland. David was...

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Hearing loss

An interesting  Lifestyle and Hearing Health Survey arrived on my desk this week from Dr Ross Walker, one of Australia’s leading preventative health specialist and because my father Frank, is deaf, I...

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A Thumb Down on Sex

Anything British novelist Martin Amis writes is bound to be brilliant expression. And his comment on a new collection of British poet Philip Larkin’s letters is not only an excellent read in this...

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The Three D’s of our Dream Home – Decisions on Design, Detail.

 The time of dreaming about our custom-designed retirement home is over. Today we signed off on the pre-construction phase of our new home and behind us are a thousand small decisions about detail....

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Quiet Encounters of a Feathered Kind

Waterbirds in all their diversity have added a wonderful dimension to our seachange lifestyle. Right now we are busily counting nine ducklings paddling alongside mother duck across the waterway towards...

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Time

Annie Fox, one of my Facebook friends has a habit  of placing one word online for comment and possibly because another New Year is nigh, she threw in the word  “time’’. Her move followed another...

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My Best Christmas:

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...

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Elsa an inspirational French teacher

Never has learning French been so inspiring as this week’s lesson in the rose garden of Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens. My French teacher is Argentinian-born and now new Australian citizen, Elsa Rozannes...

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A moment with Margaret

In  the midst of the Christmas shopping frenzy I met an old woman in a wheelchair and she called out to me in barely legible words that she was selling a book for $2 a copy. “It’s a book of my...

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Breast Cancer – A Beast of a Disease

Life can be such a bitch!  Over the past few weeks two close friends have been diagnosed with breast cancer and had operations to have breast lumps removed and diagnosed. It means that today,...

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Philipa’s Christmas: How Arts Decoratifs create joy

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...

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My Hand-made Christmas

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...

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One wedding, two funerals and a ”nouvelle maison”.

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...

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“Philly’’ a phoney for real French fromages.

The French people are precious about their cheeses and savour the nose, palate and taste of  their ancient fromages with as much passion as their wines. But now there is an American invader, the...

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We Must Cultivate Our “Garden”

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...

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