French 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...
View ArticleSweet Peas, Pearls, Stories and Style
Congratulations to the indominable Maria Kenda, AM, who gathered together an impressive group of renowned women to relaunch the Adelaide Ladies Lunch Club at the Naval, Military &Air Force Club of...
View ArticleFrilly flower symbolises hope for cancer cure
They have elegant fluted blooms and are known for their vibrant yellow colour, although daffodils come in many shapes and shades of yellow and cream. I am thinking, though, of Daffodil Day and how it...
View ArticleMoving Home
Packing boxes are scattered around our island home once more as we begin to pull up roots after living on Hindmarsh Island for a year. It has been such an exciting sojourn living the sea-change leisure...
View ArticleMosque and Cathedral create Spanish Masterpiece
By Cathy Portas We are in Spain, walking through the Hall of Columns in the ancient Mezquita mosque in Cordoba, yet I cannot stop weeping quietly. No words are needed to explain my emotional reaction...
View ArticleRed Dog – a box office star
He has those same copper-hued coat and magnetic eyes of myriad Aussie sheepdogs, however, there isn’t another quite as unique as KoKo, the wonder woofer star of Red Dog. Here he is with the...
View ArticleConversations With A Sound Man:
Major film sound designer James Currie swirls his favourite wine – a Privee Margaux he bought in the pretty French village in 1998 and ponders on the power of happenstance. His journey into sound...
View ArticleStanley Cottage – history and homely ambiance
Our brief to Rodney and Regina Twiss of North Adelaide Heritage Group was that we wanted a weekend escape in an intimate memorable environment to celebrate a special anniversary. And here we are...
View ArticleA Peep Behind Spanish Doors
Cathy Portas continues her writing about journeying in Spain. The timing of our visit to Cordoba, in Spain was pure luck as we arrived in the middle of the ‘Patio Festival’. It was an unexpected...
View ArticleSweet memories are made of this…
We have escaped to delightful Stanley Cottage for the weekend in Stanley Street North Adelaide to celebrate the pivotal moment when Olivier first invited me to Belair for dinner eight years ago. In...
View Articlejoyful xmas
What a wonderful, peaceful, joyful Christmas we have shared with our two families in our new home. Love flowed around our celebrations like sparkling rose and we have survived the mayhem of three...
View ArticleRillettes 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 belly (with plenty...
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