Category Archives: Australia

A Feast of Birds

Posted on 31 March 2020 by sheg4184

Galahs, of the blushing, watermelon-pink breasts, squawk and gnaw at the bark of grey-skinned gums The neighbour’s palomino pigeons swoop and loop like fighter pilots in formation, banking through a hair’s breadth between branches Down below, the diminutive and dainty … Continue reading →

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Shoo fly, don’t bother me!

Posted on 15 March 2020 by sheg4184

‘Flies are of course always irksome, but the Australian variety distinguishes itself with its very particular persistence. If an Australian fly wants to be up your nose or in your ear, there is no discouraging him. Flick at him as … Continue reading →

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‘You’re the avocado to my toast!’

Posted on 7 March 2020 by sheg4184

“Truthfully this is one ‘recipe’ … I make and eat most often! … It’s the holy trinity of Vegenaise, avocado and salt that makes this like a favorite pair of jeans — so reliable and easy and always just what … Continue reading →

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Let Them Eat Pie!

Posted on 16 February 2020 by sheg4184

‘Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie…‘ ~ traditional nursery rhyme Back in the fourteenth century, long before fridges and freezers came into existence, there was pie. Pie crusts … Continue reading →

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Recapturing Charmian

Posted on 4 February 2020 by sheg4184

In 1964, the Australian born writers Charmian Clift and George Johnson returned to Sydney with their three children after fifteen years abroad. Over the next five years, Clift would write more than 250 essays for The Sydney Morning Herald and … Continue reading →

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Oh, What a Feeling!

Posted on 30 December 2019 by sheg4184

The week before Christmas, the One & Only and I took the Toyota, Bruce, for a run to the Yorke Peninsula. A simple, short break was required before the Christmas mayhem kicked in. The road north out of Adelaide is … Continue reading →

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Nine Lessons & Carols

Posted on 22 December 2019 by sheg4184

‘The air was dry with summer heat, and smoke was on the yellow moon…’ ~John Wheeler The temperature gauge is swooping up to the century as we gallop into the third week of December. It’s a far cry from last … Continue reading →

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Road Trip

Posted on 17 November 2019 by sheg4184

I have just returned from a road trip to Melbourne, to reacquaint myself with the Australian landscape. In my shiny new, burnt orange Toyota Corolla that I have baptized Bruce, I have chewed up the miles with glee, driving through … Continue reading →

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A Taste of Memory

Posted on 20 September 2018 by sheg4184

Ten years ago, I was writing a thesis on rural Food and Wine Festivals. It gave me the excuse to spend a lot of time in several lovely wine regions, like Orange in New South Wales and the Clare and … Continue reading →

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Food & Wine & Wild Animals

Posted on 9 May 2018 by sheg4184

Whenever I have been in South Australia lately, my feet seem to drift, inevitably, south to the Fleurieu Peninsula. A recent trip found me pottering through the Adelaide Hills to Clarendon and McLaren Flat at twilight, with Son Number Two, … Continue reading →

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