Blossoms everywhere herald Spring
What an idyllic beginning to Spring! September 1 dawns a delightful day. Azure blue, cloudless skies, balmy sunshine, soft breezes and a temperature which passes 20. After such a long, cold, wet...
View ArticleLove, Two Lipsticks and a Lover to be French!
My new habit of reading each morning and night has unlocked some delightful books in my bookshelf which have not been opened for years. Two, in particularly – both outrageously Francophilic – have...
View ArticleBe Happy Today
Here are some uplifting words for anyone feeling the weight of the passing years. I found the birthday card which has been in a drawer for years and now I send it to you to endorse those lovely...
View ArticleBoomers and their bags reveal gen gap.
Here is a light-bulb moment from baby boomer, Gilly Joschke, a teacher at Adelaide’s prestigious Seymour College. “I did an interesting activity with my year 8 students this week. I asked them to...
View ArticleBoomers are chameleons in societal change
No-one told me book clubs were so interesting, not so much because of the books under discussion, but by the real life circumstances of the women attending. When my friend Glenda asked me to be a...
View ArticlePrevention a Focus for New Cancer Centre
About half of all cancers are caused by lifestyle factors and behavioural change strategies could save lives, says South Australia’s Minister for Health and Ageing, John Hill. He was speaking at the...
View ArticleTutti Kids “beautiful” performers
It was a charming event entitled “Beautiful Me, Beautiful Us Caberet when Tutti Kids, children with intellectual disabilities performed at Novita Theatre, Regency Park recently. I had seen Hot...
View ArticleScarlett’s Baptism Brings Family Joy
How strange that this morning I awake with a song in my head which is a popular wedding hymn. Its words “This is the day which the Lord Hath made’’ run through my mind and it strikes me that this day...
View ArticleOz film industry created our own heroes – Jack Thompson
In 40 years, the Australian film industry has grown up from infancy and ”given us a voice on screen” by telling our own stories with Aussie actors portraying familiar characters says veteran actor...
View ArticleOscar survives another misadventure
Pretty puppy pooch, Oscar. has had another dramatic event which had him screaming for his life. My dear friend, Sheryl, dog-sits Oscar often because she has two doggies of her own – an old shi tsu...
View ArticleThe “old bugger” meets the new babies
It is hard to determine who is the more fragile – my father Frank, who turned 94 a few weeks ago, or his new great-grand-daughter, Scarlett Rose Williams, who has been placed carefully into his frail...
View ArticleWark’s Wonderful World of Words
Lyceum Club senior-vice-president, Marguerite Wark has won a special prize in the Writers’ Week competition and shares her delightful words with us. “Writers’ Week – my favourite week in the year –...
View ArticleKookaburra’s special song
Remember the childhood song “Kookaburra sits on the Old Gum Tree…Merry, Merry King of the Bush is He….’’. The words flooded back this week when a kookaburra descended upon the gums surrounding the new...
View ArticleNovember a social whirl
November must surely nudge March as the best fun month in Adelaide. Take my November social calendar as an example of a typical Adelaidean’s merry-go-round of fun. We didn’t need to be in Melbourne...
View ArticleCricket Champions at three score and 10
The recent Over 60s National Cricket Championships played in Adelaide last month revealed two local champions – Des Fuss (left from Moonta and wicketkeeper Michael Willson formerly of Kangaroo Island,...
View ArticleNew questions hover over Jacinta’s suicide
The tragedy of the thoughtless radio prank which led to the suicide of nurse Jacinta Sadanha is just awful. Greig and Christian when they apologised on television appeared crushed, tearful and full...
View ArticleGift-giving the spirit of Christmas
So this is Christmas. Trees with twinkling lights in so many windows, wreaths on doors, Father Christmases in every shopping centre and big red bows tied around street trees. Sometimes one spots a...
View ArticleOscar survives another misadventure
Pretty puppy pooch, Oscar. has had another dramatic event which had him screaming for his life. My dear friend, Sheryl, dog-sits Oscar often because she has two doggies of her own – an old shi tsu...
View ArticleThe “old bugger” meets the new babies
It is hard to determine who is the more fragile – my father Frank, who turned 94 a few weeks ago, or his new great-grand-daughter, Scarlett Rose Williams, who has been placed carefully into his frail...
View ArticleNew questions hover over Jacinta’s suicide
The tragedy of the thoughtless radio prank which led to the suicide of nurse Jacinta Sadanha is just awful. Greig and Christian when they apologised on television appeared crushed, tearful and full...
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