Moving moments
Moving Moments We are on the move. The time has come after 12 months of the usual harrowing, time-consuming, finicky process of deciding to demolish and build another more functional, safer retirement...
View ArticleBoeuf en Daube a la Provencale from Christine Wilkinson of Lavande French...
BOEUF-en-DAUBE A LA PROVENCALE: (cooked in a cast iron pot on top of stove.) Adapted from a recipe from DK Books publication Provence Cookery School by renowned French chef, Gui Gedda and Marie Pierre...
View ArticleOne July day- A lesson in tolerance
It’s Saturday morning and I have hair appointment this morning at Gauci hair stylists at Mitcham and a speaking engagement for my book From France With Love at 1pm. The beautician at Gauci is a recent...
View ArticleCheryl turns hand to paint
Fine art machine embroiderer and textile artist Cheryl Bridgart has turned her talented hand to painting following a mishap with her ankle which forced her to abandon the sewing machine. Renowned for...
View ArticleFASHION TRENDS
It must be 20 years ago since I interviewed Perri Cutten, who was still single then and I was impressed by her elegance and style. So it is not surprising to learn this week at the Lyceum Club’s...
View ArticleGoolwa Regatta Yacht Club raises funds for disabled
The Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club was a sea of French-style berets on Saturday for a fund-raiser for Sailability which featured the very chic Lisette and Her Faux Manouches. Fresh from a four and a half...
View ArticleBirdlife sets peaceful pace on Hindmarsh Island
It is deepest winter on Hindmarsh Island, but the prolific water birds, are unconcerned this chilly August morning. The swans are preening themselves, a lone pelican floats along the river, a heron...
View ArticleBuilding Belair
What a process it has been to reach today – the day I accept a quotation from project builder, Stellar Homes to build our retirement home – at a price we can afford. About 16 months ago, in April last...
View ArticleWine, roses, art and un certain French flair.
The glittering gift store at Chateau Barrosa, in the Barossa Valley may well be named All That Jazz, but it oozes French style thanks to the creative flair of Lena Thumm. Lena, married to Dieter Thumm,...
View ArticleEscoffier – King of Chefs – Founder of French Haute Cuisine
French chef Auguste Escoffier was unquestionably one of the greatest chefs the world has known and is hailed by all the best chefs today as “The King of Chefs”. He was the genius who masterminded the...
View ArticleA class act @ Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Voila ! Today unfolds as an extraordinary entree to France’s exotic cuisine culture as I watch Le Cordon Bleu chef Philippe Clergue teach advanced students in Paris. I had to earn my place in his...
View ArticleMoving- a mountain of a task
Was it John Lennon who once wrote “life is what happens when you are busy making other plans’’. We have lived this songline for the last few months as our carefully laid plans to uproot our lives,...
View ArticleExpat chef becomes pure Parisienne
Ex-pat Kaye Baudinette is unassuming about her extraordinary life in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu where she is the long-time manager of the Resource Centre at the world-renowned Academie d’art culinaire de...
View Article“Une soiree extraordinaire” @ Limoges
The ghost of the Domaine de la Dame de la Lauriere would have enjoyed this evening’s soiree around the dining room table in the house she once inhabited. That was around 1793 at the time of France’s...
View ArticleDimanche in Paris in Autumn:
The words of that quintessential song about Paris spring to mind and I hum “I love Paris in the fall….when it drizzles’’ which is the weather as I slip inside Sunday morning mass at imposing,...
View Article37 cubic metres of Sea-change
after flaking out for a few hours, he drove me to Hindmarsh Island ahead of the moving van, where I lay on a sleeping bag for a few more hours. I felt as frail as a newborn kitty and here is where the...
View ArticleDemolition becomes Day of Drama
Day one of demolition of our Belair house began badly. We had taken a packed lunch to await the arrival of the bulldozer which was to begin to take down the house. It was already a bare shell,...
View Articlemore water – a lifeline to the river
Water is the current which carries conversation in the river port of Goolwa. And right now, everyone in this strategically positioned town where the River Murray meets the sea is elated that for the...
View ArticleBuilding Belair
What a process it has been to reach today – the day I accept a quotation from project builder, Stellar Homes to build our retirement home – at an affordable price. One could think I was something of a...
View ArticleAll the glory of golden years of modelling
It was a joyous walk down memory lane for former Adelaide models of the 1960s-1980s who attended the GoldenYears of Modelling Reunion at the glitzy new Crown Plaza Hotel on Friday night. And an...
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