A Taste of the High Life on the High Seas
It is an idyllic April evening cruising in the Gulf St Vincent and I am enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime experience “steering” for a nonasecond, the multi-million dollar boat owned by renowned housing...
View ArticleSimple French Cuisine for Australians
It’s Easter Saturday and I plans to make a tasty lunch for Olivier, whom I expect will be allowed day leave from hospital today. However, this delightful April Indian summer means I must water our new...
View ArticleA-List Lunch aids Cancer Research
The prestigious South Australian Women of the Year lunch at Ayers House today had an emotional element when cancer researcher Dr Michelle Lee received a $4000 cheque to continue her research into bone...
View ArticleA Living Angel
Australia’s first professor of palliative care originally set out in the world to become a medical missionary. But life and fate had other ideas, as SAMELA HARRIS reports on the man some people call…...
View ArticleFrench Politics on the Cusp of Change
We are glued to coverage of the French presidential elections and each morning French-Australian husband Olivier takes himself into the lounge to watch the French news on SBS at 10:20am. He is a...
View ArticleHome-based Palliative Care a Team Effort
Once more beloved husband Olivier arrives home from hospital, but this time by ambulance. This is a special home-coming, though, because the other option was to send him to a hospice. Even though his...
View ArticleFamily life, death and les femmes de nuit
C’est la vie en France: French cinema always offers that element of surprise and this year’s offering at the French Film Festival was no exception. As always, there was sex aplenty whatever the...
View ArticleHello Faithful Friends
Another four months have slipped by since I wrote you a note, but our life is a little like a ship rolling in high seas – one is on the verge of seasickness all the time and it’s a daily problem to...
View ArticleWhere the “girls” are.
Still glamorous Chris Nicholls, once a founding partner of Rave Model Agency flew into Adelaide for the weekend with husband Rob for grandparents’ Day at Immanuel College where grand-daughter Chloe...
View ArticleHope for Breast Cancer Cure
A new study holds hope that breast cancer treatment could be far more tailored in future with the discovery that tumours can be classified into 10 specific types. Researchers analysed 2000 tumour...
View ArticleA Memorable Encounter with Music
Today, June 23, is Olivier’s birthday and a strange thing happened. Friends Ruth and Graham Bettany invited me to visit them at Oakbank in the Adelaide Hills to keep my mind off the significance of the...
View ArticleMushrooms and memories on hillside stroll
I am trying hard to nudge out grief from my mind by paying attention to the joy of life around me. There is delight simply by walking down my street with Oscar on his lead sniffing at every blade of...
View ArticleFrance’s fleshy fungi taste “Magnifique!”
What to do with those two cepe mushrooms I found on the roadside? Well, a French recipe is a must because I first ate the fleshy fungi in France. I find a perfect recipe in Auguste Escoffier’s book...
View ArticleThe bitch factor in French politics:
It comes as no surprise that former International Monetary Fund chief French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his high profile wife Anne Sinclair have split. The once-powerful French couple have...
View ArticleLunch reveals lives of older boomers
We are seven women of a certain age, who are lunching together at Kate’s place to celebrate my long-time friend Sheryl’s birthday. Sheryl is a baby boomer creeping further into her early 60s and we...
View ArticleSA Women vie for Senate spot
Riverland entrepreneur, Anne Ruston is remaining stoic in her bid to contest the coveted Senate vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Mary Jo Fisher despite a late entry candidate, Kate Raggatt,...
View ArticleFood a Focus in Anti-cancer “synergy”.
The fight against cancer starts in the kitchen according to anticancer guru David Serwan-Schreiber. “Food is something we give our body three times a day. Everything we eat has a profound impact on...
View ArticleMotherhood yields rich human harvest
My week has been filled with wonderful family activities to gladden the saddest heart. The three grand-children are visiting from Queensland with their mother, my daughter Serena and how sweet it...
View ArticleBig family, birthday fun
Today is my birthday and it is also my only sister’s birthday. We were both born today, July 15, but 16 years apart. She is my baby sister, which is why I have invited myself to her house for dinner....
View ArticleMy own Joyeux anniversaire
Today is my first birthday since Olivier died and I have been dreading it. Usually Olivier would greet me with “Joyeux anniversaire cherie’’ and hand me his gift while I was still in bed. I would...
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