Meryl is magnificent as Margaret
There are a few good reasons to brace oneself for the reality of old age by viewing The Iron Lady, about the life of Margaret Thatcher, one of the greatest women leaders of the 20th century. Firstly,...
View ArticleEnter Giulia, Exit Loulou
The year in France had its moment of joy with the birth of Giulia Sarkozy, daughter of one-time supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, 43, and the French president, Nicholas Sarkozy. (Hands up those who...
View ArticleA French Favourite Starter – pork
Rillettes De Porc Method Olivier’s claim to fame in the kitchen is home-made pork rillettes, which is easy to make, keeps well and can be made in big quantities for a crowd. For 1 kg of boneless pork...
View ArticleOn Interior Style
On Style: A new home is like a blank canvas waiting for the first brush of the artist’s stroke – it’s a unique opportunity to express one’s personal interior style. I have never been minimalist – a...
View ArticleNovember Heralds Dramatic News
Three months absent from my website signifies some dramatic events in our lives. That short space of time, though, has ensured that things for husband Olivier and myself are going to be vastly...
View ArticleSnippet from Sweden
Thought I would share an email we received for New Year from former Adelaide celeb, Heather Caddick, now living in Sweden. She had a travel article on her first Swedish Christmas published in The...
View ArticleHome Grown Glory
Anyone who has visited French artist Monet’s garden in Giverny will know its beauty and why the great master considered his garden his greatest creative art and painted it so much. Our new garden is...
View ArticleOn Interior Style:
A new home is like a blank canvas waiting for the first brush of the artist’s stroke – it’s a unique opportunity to express one’s personal interior style. I have never been minimalist – a nice way of...
View ArticleAre We Any Different? by Cheryl Bridgart
Popular textile artist Cheryl Bridgart is delighted at the success of her present exhibition, Are We Any Different? at the Adelaide Zoo’s exhibition space. As always, Cheryl presents her artworks with...
View ArticleTalent galore
[left] Valli, Jenny, Suzie, Sarah, Host Marie, Ursula and Lynley What a talent pool of artists this festival state of ours has spawned. When naïve artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison held a girlie lunch for...
View ArticleLashings of Frenchness at Film Festival
The Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, opening in Adelaide on March 20, promises yet again that alluring mix of emotion, passion love, and drama – as well as a new genre – “A French Touch Around...
View ArticleOnce Were School Days to Holiday Stays
Denise and Frank Kuss had a yearning for a different life from the typical suburban cycle of work and busy city living. Here is their story becoming B&B owners of the old Stanley Grammar...
View ArticleHey presto! Petit chien is now a poodle!
Our petit chien, cute puppy Oscar has metamorphised. We thought we bought a Shi Tsu Maltese X with a shaggy, long-haired coat just like his mother. And, sure we saw the daddy dog, a handsome grey...
View ArticleA Taste of the High Life on the High Seas
It is an idyllic April evening cruising in the Gulf St Vincent and I am enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime experience “steering” for a nonasecond, the multi-million dollar boat owned by renowned housing...
View ArticleSimple French Cuisine for Australians
It’s Easter Saturday and I plans to make a tasty lunch for Olivier, whom I expect will be allowed day leave from hospital today. However, this delightful April Indian summer means I must water our new...
View ArticleA-List Lunch aids Cancer Research
The prestigious South Australian Women of the Year lunch at Ayers House today had an emotional element when cancer researcher Dr Michelle Lee received a $4000 cheque to continue her research into bone...
View ArticleA Living Angel
Australia’s first professor of palliative care originally set out in the world to become a medical missionary. But life and fate had other ideas, as SAMELA HARRIS reports on the man some people call…...
View ArticleFrench Politics on the Cusp of Change
We are glued to coverage of the French presidential elections and each morning French-Australian husband Olivier takes himself into the lounge to watch the French news on SBS at 10:20am. He is a...
View ArticleHome-based Palliative Care a Team Effort
Once more beloved husband Olivier arrives home from hospital, but this time by ambulance. This is a special home-coming, though, because the other option was to send him to a hospice. Even though his...
View ArticleFamily life, death and les femmes de nuit
C’est la vie en France: French cinema always offers that element of surprise and this year’s offering at the French Film Festival was no exception. As always, there was sex aplenty whatever the...
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