SOMETIMES I COME ACROSS A STORY THAT TRULY MOVES ME. JESSICA TRUETT GREW UP IN KENTUCKY. HER MEMORIES OF HER DEARLY LOVED GRANDMOTHER DOLLIE CAME STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART. THEY WERE ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO SHARE HER ARTICLE ON MY WEBSITE. DOLLIE DIED
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BAKERY BELOW! My husband Rob and I live in the Blue Mountains, but spend a lot of time in Sydney. We usually stay in the same hotel apartments on the lower north shore. Conveniently, they are located above a small shopping centre. Every morning Rob pops down
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Hello, Editor Des here, Well I have been searching all over Sydney for the best Christmas tree. I found the first one in Cremorne when we were having a little holiday. I thought I really set it off. I’m a true ornament. Hahaha. Red and green
Read more →JINGLE BELLS….. You could decorate a Christmas tree with the sweet, native bell flowers that flourish in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. In fact, I have done this in my garden at Blackheath. I used correas, cinnamon bells and apple berry blooms to adorn a
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‘Oh! All that steam! The pudding had just been taken out of the cauldron. Oh! That smell! The same as the one which prevailed on washing day. It is that of the cloth which wraps the pudding. Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’ Christmas in Australia is a
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CHRISTMAS 1877. At St-Leonards-on-Sea, in the English county of Sussex, a Christmas market was being held in the ‘old town’. The shops and churches were decorated with laurel, holly and ivy. Nevertheless, perhaps due to the unseasonable mild weather, the jollity of the Hastings & St Leonards
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SHAKEN AND STIRRED! Thanks to classic wines such as Penfold’s Grange, Australians are now less likely to be perceived as a nation of unsophisticated beer swillers. However, cocktails are perhaps more generally associated with Manhattan or Paris than ‘the
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