The last station
No matter how brilliantly actors Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren portrayed the warring Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sofia, in the film The Last Station, there was a far richer story...
View ArticleMulots in Adelaide: patissier extraordinaire
Retirement has ushered in my return to the kitchen (the men in my life, son or husband, cooked the evening meal while I worked full-time). I have prepared for this by embarking on learning all about...
View ArticleHumble Roots to Haute Cuisine
A few years ago, I lost my mother’s recipe book when I moved house and I still sorely miss it. Her handwriting, the food spattered on the favourite pages and all those much loved recipes that evoked...
View ArticleThe new age
By JOAN LADY HARDY I vividly recall when I was eighteen and in a grumpy mood my mother saying to me ”take a look at yourself in the mirror, and remember we all get the face we deserve by the time we...
View ArticleMourning Glory
That last taboo – Death – has become a springboard for Leonor Scherrer, daughter of French couturier Jean-Louis to launch her own “funeral couture’’. In France one can no longer consider turning up to...
View ArticleLaw of the Jungle
She is a thoroughly new breed of single, older woman – confident, sophisticated, desirable and sexy – and the cougar woman is absolutely on the prowl according to Valerie Gibson, author of Cougar: A...
View ArticleFeeling high over film option
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010. It is Saturday morning I rise early and I prepare my home for a Red Letter Day – the signing of the film options papers for my debut book From France With Love. I notice the...
View Article64 and still kicking
It seems only yesterday that our generation would sing parrot-like that Beatles’ hit When I’m 64 and never waste a thought on what life would be like then. The notion that we would ever “get older...
View ArticleKI pelicans perform sky show
Who would expect one of the most spectacular wildlife experiences on Kangaroo Island to happen while sipping early-morning tea at an unlikely place – on the veranda of American River’s general store....
View ArticleToque Blanche at Le Cordon Bleu
Quality more than quantity still rules the plate in France, despite societal change surrounding food, says eminent Parisian Cordon Bleu chef, Philippe Clergue, who was in Adelaide recently for Tasting...
View ArticleMy night of dreams
MAY 15. Tonight I hurl myself into cyberspace with the launching of my website www.nadinewilliams.com.au and I feel like I am soaring high on a kite and who knows where I will land. It’s an...
View ArticleZonta celebrates fine fundraising
An impressive pile of 40 colourful hand-made blankets were donated to Catherine House for Adelaide’s homeless women at Zonta International’s handover dinner for the Adelaide/Flinders club this week....
View ArticleLove,Lust and Lies
Their names are Josie, Diana and Kerry and their suburban lives have become rivetting social history in Love, Lust and Lies, a documentary by Gillian Armstrong. The three Adelaide women – Diana...
View ArticleFamily first as Chris Nicholls turns 60
Former Adelaide model and co-founder of Rave Model Agency, still glamorous Chris Nicholls recently turned 60 with a family shebang in Wellington, New Zealand where she was born. Chris and husband...
View ArticleNo Buts, Butt out
My esteemed colleague, Peter Goers’ article today (Sunday, May 30) needs to be addressed and to set the scene here are some vital statistics to mull over on World No Tobacco Day – May 31. The average...
View ArticleThe grandchildren as guests
THE GOOD GRANDMA: Ours is a house of bliss right now as we host grand-children from either end of the age spectrum. Oldest grandson Andre, a solidly built 27-year-old fine arts student from Charles...
View ArticleA sunburnt country via the Ghan
When I was a young child visiting Grandma, the sweetest moments were when the train would clickety-clack past the front gate along the Islington line. I would swing from the gate, all bobby socks and...
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