One feature of growing up in the late seventies and early eighties was the Sunday night serial on the ABC, which we used to watch together as a family. We, the Accused was about the unhappily married school teacher in the 1920s who kills his nasty wife and runs off with a younger woman. For…
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Oct
I come from a family with a long line of green thumbs. My thumbs are more of the dead variety. Palm trees can survive in deserts, but not in my garden. My excuse is that I was travelling a lot, and didn’t have time to do mundane things like tend to plants. But now I…
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Oct
York has views from Mount Brown … … and an historic Town Hall … … but there was something simple, joyful and innocent about the flying fox near the river. The more I travel, the less I want to see the tourist sites and the more I want to have fun with friends and the…
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Oct
I am a little ashamed that I’d been two New York, USA, twice since my previous trip to York, WA. It had been ten years between trips to York, WA. It’ll be a lot less time until my next visit, partly because of some wonderful friends, and partly because of this bookshop. Kitty Kelley, Julie…
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Oct
I may have been the only person in WA not to watch the AFL final – the only time we’ll ever have it in Perth – or will it be? – but even I joined in the festivities in Forrest Chase the day after, on my way to the gym. I think someone should do…
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Sep
I went op-shopping this weekend and bought this for two dollars: The chapters include ‘Training Techniques and Workouts’, ‘Strength Training’, ‘Eat for Health and Performance’ and ‘Mental Toughness’, but maybe a few others didn’t quite make it into the book…
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Sep
There used to be a Cold Rock Ice Creamery in Northbridge, directly on my walk home from the city. It’s now Red Rooster, so I have replaced one readily accessible naughty culinary indulgence with another. The nearest Cold Rock now is in Scarborough. Today, I got them to mix in extra cookie dough to the…
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Sep
