Adelaidians can show solidarity with Paris
The Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherall and Ambassador to France in Australia,Christophe Lecourtier, will be speaking at a public vigil to show support and solidarity for the victims of the...
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Behind the lack of blogging on my website over the past year, I have had a secret project. I have been very busy completing a 100,000 word manuscript telling the story of how I have pulled myself...
View ArticleJockey Michelle beats racing discrimination
Is there a greater thrill in November than enjoying a girlie Melbourne Cup luncheon when trailblazer jockey Michelle Payne became the first woman to win at Flemington? And she was riding my Sweep pick...
View ArticleTourists find Katmandu in recovery mode
My Sydney friend has taken her first post-retirement trip to Nepal to do her bit to boost the tourist industry in that impoverished country,which has suffered from massive earthquakes in May and June...
View ArticleThe Belier Family – fab feel-good French story
The French film, The Belier Family (La Famille Bélier) by director Eric Lartigau makes you think deeply about the disadvantages of being deaf – and it makes you cry – but mostly it makes you laugh. No...
View ArticlePowerful women as change agents in politics and media
Recent appointments and events reflect powerful women at the helm of politics and media. Powerful Google executive, Michelle Guthrie, has been appointed the new head of the ABC following Mark Scott,...
View ArticleAgeing increases risk of breast cancer
It was the telephone call women most fear: The woman speaking calmly to me at the other end of my mobile is advising that I need to return to BreastScreen SA because my rec ent mammogram had shown...
View ArticlePublication deal heralds new chapter
Hello everyone, The stars above us must be in alignment because March has brought astounding happenings to set my life on a new trajectory. Hoorah! I have sold my manuscript, Bon Voyage Mesdames, to...
View ArticleRobyne thanks her dad for happy childhood
Robyne Laird Jones wrote this emotive tribute to her dad and she was happy to have it reproduced on my website. Straight from the heart, it reveals the typical Australian childhood she and her siblings...
View ArticleHarlequin publishers buy my memoir
The stars must be in alignment because March has brought astounding happenings to set my life on a new trajectory. Hoorah! I have sold my manuscript, Bon Voyage Mesdames, to Harlequin Publishers....
View ArticleTensions of the “Odd Couple” a highlight says Arts critic Samela Harris
There is really only so much I can say about my own book, Farewell My French Love, released today into all good bookshops Australia-wide. So, I have called on a former colleague, arts critic and...
View ArticleLet’s talk about grief and loss and love
Am over the moon that Australia’s national paper, The Australian, ran a review on my memoir Farewell My French Love last weekend. Published by Harlequin’s new arm HQ non-fiction, it was one of four...
View ArticleAccolade in OZ review for FMFL memoir
Am over the moon that Australia’s national paper, The Australian, ran a review on my memoir Farewell My French Love last weekend. Published by Harlequin’s new arm HQ non-fiction, it was one of...
View ArticleA Giant Leap into the New Media
Delighted to share this YouTube video teaser which captures the funny side of my bitter/sweet memoir Farewell My French Love – how my travels through France with my Sydney friend Jane revealed profound...
View ArticleBastille Day brings valuable radio talk
Bastille Day was a great chance to promote my new memoir Farewell My French Love, when I wrote and did a media distribution on a funny take on the French people and their idiosyncrasies. And how lucky...
View ArticleLate-summer garden brings joy and pride
It’s best to be honest about my garden which spreads around my newish home in Belair. Probably, it’s about 600 square metres in size and gives me immense joy. However, I must quote words from Charles...
View ArticleFrench Medieval masterpiece a must to see
The rarest of French Medieval masterpieces – the six-panel tapestries known as The Lady and the Unicorn – will be on show at the Art Gallery of NSW until June 24, 2018. On loan from the Musee de Cluny...
View ArticleEntertaining friends – a creative act of love
For the past 16 years, I have kept a Hostess Book which capture the many dinner parties and celebrations held in my various homes, both as a divorcee, a married woman and, finally, as a widow. When I...
View ArticleTwo decades wring change
Merry Christmas to you all. And a Happy New Year in a few weeks when we herald 2020. How time flies, and how it sweeps in profound change, whether we like it or not. It is hard to look so far back to...
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