Pink heralds pretty Spring garden
My new garden is a picture of pink blooms in its first Spring. Pink roses flower prolifically, countless pink field carnations, chorus-like, nod in the wind and a border of pink daisies form a splash...
View ArticleSpring breaks through winter of grief
My springtime garden is a picture of blooming flowers and the sun shines warmly to welcome an idyllic day. I can appreciate such beauty now, but six months ago to this day, another Friday, my...
View ArticleScarlett’s Baptism Brings Family Joy
How strange that this morning I awake with a song in my head which is a popular wedding hymn. Its words “This is the day which the Lord Hath made’’ run through my mind and it strikes me that this day...
View ArticleOz film industry created our own heroes – Jack Thompson
In 40 years, the Australian film industry has grown up from infancy and ”given us a voice on screen” by telling our own stories with Aussie actors portraying familiar characters says veteran actor...
View ArticleOscar survives another misadventure
Pretty puppy pooch, Oscar. has had another dramatic event which had him screaming for his life. My dear friend, Sheryl, dog-sits Oscar often because she has two doggies of her own – an old shi tsu...
View ArticleThe “old bugger” meets the new babies
It is hard to determine who is the more fragile – my father Frank, who turned 94 a few weeks ago, or his new great-grand-daughter, Scarlett Rose Williams, who has been placed carefully into his frail...
View ArticleWark’s Wonderful World of Words
Lyceum Club senior-vice-president, Marguerite Wark has won a special prize in the Writers’ Week competition and shares her delightful words with us. “Writers’ Week – my favourite week in the year –...
View ArticleKookaburra’s special song
Remember the childhood song “Kookaburra sits on the Old Gum Tree…Merry, Merry King of the Bush is He….’’. The words flooded back this week when a kookaburra descended upon the gums surrounding the new...
View ArticleNovember a social whirl
November must surely nudge March as the best fun month in Adelaide. Take my November social calendar as an example of a typical Adelaidean’s merry-go-round of fun. We didn’t need to be in Melbourne...
View ArticleCricket Champions at three score and 10
The recent Over 60s National Cricket Championships played in Adelaide last month revealed two local champions – Des Fuss (left from Moonta and wicketkeeper Michael Willson formerly of Kangaroo Island,...
View ArticleKeep Calm and Carry On Into 2013
As you read this, it’s your first reason to celebrate the dawning of 2013 because despite all the doomy prophecies, the world did not end. And despite the war in Afghanistan, Middle Eastern strife,...
View ArticleFrench court rules thumbs down for wealth tax
In a surprising update on France’s tax hike for the ultra-rich, France’s highest court has thrown out the controversial plan to tax the wealthy at a rate of 75 per cent, saying it was unfair. In a...
View ArticleOf Cats, Frogs, Madmen and Shearers
One of the finer cultural moments of 2012 was a poetry event at my book club. We had been asked each to bring a piece of poetry to be read and discussed in some length. One of Australia’s outstanding...
View ArticleWeight weighs In Well for Longer Life
Oh what a gem of news which proclaims that a few extra kilos are worth their weight in a bid for a longer life. It applies to men and women who are slightly plump and not the obese, who face a raft of...
View ArticleNew Year’s Friends, Fireworks & Memories
Hoorah for January, the best month of the year. Only New Year heralds a respectable chance to wipe the slate clean and, armed with resolutions, to begin anew on this adventure called life. The best...
View ArticleXmas Pudding and Trifle terrific treats
Is there anything as sweet and alluring to the eye than Christmas Day desserts? Ours were a delicious trifle which was a treat for the eye as well as the taste buds and a home-made Christmas pudding...
View ArticleMore Water Saves Mighty Murray
It is a once-in-a-lifetime moment at, arguably, Australia’s most controversial spot – the mouth of the mighty River Murray. Today, the mouth is open and a mere sliver of blue waters run from the river...
View ArticleDiversity in Aged Care
The Federal Government’s national ageing and aged care policies move beyond mainstream to diversity. The Federal Government has released its first national ageing and aged care strategy for Lesbian,...
View ArticleOswald floods Queensland with cyclonic rain
So much for the idyllic Sunshine State! Brisbane seems to be drowning in a cyclonic drenching and 80km winds lash relentlessly around the Queenslander house built on stilts where my daughter lives,...
View ArticleVive Les Mis et La Revolution!
Tom Hooper’s musical version of the Victor Hugo novel, Les Miserables,a classic tale of romance, morality and crushing poverty in revolutionary France, is spell-binding. This is due in no small measure...
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