Click here to view PHOTO ALBUM showing pics from a lovely pre-Christmas dinner hosted by my nephew Bill. fter ignoring me for the past year, retreating, screaming and hugging mummy’s legs for grim death at even the slightest approach from a once-doting grand uncle, I was ‘run-ragged’ by the ‘child’ calling out to me from …
limbing up Bell Bird Hill from Richmond on the Hawkesbury River with the windows down, the loud tinkling of the little bellbirds from the undergrowth is interrupted only by a huge crack through the air from a whip bird getting in on the act. As we arrive at Gerhard’s in Kurrajong Heights, the rains came, …
can’t think of anything better on a mild summer’s day than a trip to the beach and a spot of lunch at one of my favourite beachside restaurants, open to the sea breezes. I ask myself why we travel to exotic places when we have it all here? And it’s even more of a treat …
Railaco Children’s Feeding Program: Simply routine for long-time volunteer, Christina and the novices from the convent nearby to the Railaco Mission, but there’s many a heart-wrenching moment for city slickers like us unfamiliar with being at the ‘coal face’ and witnessing the gratitude of little children in this Railaco Feeding Program in three remote mountain villages. …
here’s no such thing as a free lunch, but it’s not about the lunch today. I’m staying at Eddy’s for a couple of nights, and I’m ‘in-charge’ of dinner tonight. Just been to M & S and love the ease of their prepared baked gammon (especially in a strange kitchen) – just slip it in …