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Category Archives: Local Culture
A Café by the Sea
The sun is up and the early morning swimmers are trudging up the beach, damp and dripping, to gather for coffee on the veranda at the Normanville Kiosk & Café. In dribs and drabs, the dawn patrol of dog walkers … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Food & Wine, Local Culture
Tagged Fleurieu Peninsula, Normanville, Normanville Kiosk & Cafe
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Shakespeare in the Rain
On a prime position, in the southern foothills above the Adelaide plains, sits a beautiful house that looks more like it belongs in the lush green English countryside than in the hot, dry southern hemisphere. Built in the late 1930s, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Lifestyle, Local Culture
Tagged Alys Daroy, Britt Plummer, David Daradan, Hayward, Kate Van der Horst, Melanie Munt, Michael Baldwin, Michaela Burger, Paul Westbrook, Shakespeare, Shakespeare South Australia, Shedrick Yarpai, Twelfth Night
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Colonel Light’s Vision: an old chestnut or a model for the future?
Through this exceptionally long, wet winter, I have spent a lot of time immersed in the history of South Australia, researching families and individuals who played a significant part in founding our state. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, for example, was a … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, History, Local Culture
Tagged Adelaide, Ayers House, Belair National Park, Colonel William Light, David Speirs, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, George Kingston, Glenthorne National Park, Martindale Hall, National Trust of South Australia, Park Lands, Professor Norman Etherington, Stephanie Johnstone
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Masks begone!
The irony of my blog’s name struck me anew this morning. No borders, only horizons? Uh huh. Not much truth in that, these days. Not that I’m complaining. South Australia has been spectacularly well protected from the horrors of a … Continue reading
Sculptures by the Sea
Several years ago, I took a handful of young boys to walk along the coastal path from Bondi to Tamarama, to check out the Sculptures by the Sea exhibition. We were absolutely rivetted by the creativity on display and I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Lifestyle, Local Culture
Tagged Bondi, Brighton, corten, David Handley, Patritti Brighton Jetty Sculptures, Sculptures by the Sea, South Australia
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Navel Gazing
Happy New Year to you all. For those of you still contemplating weeks or months of lockdown, my sincere commiserations. In South Australia, while we remain wary, we have enjoyed a simple but unrestrained Christmas season. And I don’t mean … Continue reading
On the Road Again
After the state-wide panic of a six day Covid lockdown, our brief foray into isolation barely lasted 24 hours. A storm in a teacup? A flash in the pan? Miraculously, two days later, we were able to reignite plans to … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Local Culture, Travel
Tagged Broken Hill, Living Desert State Park, Menindee, Pro Hart, Wilcannia
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Gluttony
“There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Local Culture
Tagged Abigail Thomas, diabetes, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, gluttony, Jostein Gaarder, moderation, obesity, Roald Dahl, Solzhenitsyn
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‘Where would we be without water?’
I grew up in the driest state on the driest continent in the world. My childhood was full of drought warnings, water restrictions and murky brown bath water pumped all the way from the River Murray.Anyone with a television in … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Local Culture
Tagged craft beer, Fleurieu Peninsula, Myponga, Myponga Reservoir, Smiling Samoyed Brewery
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Scones & Cream & Camellias
The camellia against the moss of the temple, the violet hues of the Kyoto mountains, a blue porcelain cupthis sudden flowering of pure beauty at the heart of ephemeral passion: is this not something we all aspire to?~ Muriel Barbery … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Lifestyle, Local Culture
Tagged Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Hills Camellia Society, Aldgate, Arts & Crafts, azaleas, bluebells, camellia, Elsie Marion Cornish, Gertrude Jekyll, National Trust South Australia, Stangate House
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