Feeling 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 ArticleA mothering milestone
Do we ever stop being mothers? Are we ever free of the “motherhood’’ tag to finally stop fretting about our adult children? If there is such a moment, it must be now that my son, my youngest child,...
View ArticleLavende: A rare French connection
When Callington restauranteur Christine Wilkinson was a young English girl growing up in London, she did not feel English at all. She knew her grandmother, Colette, was French and when she went to...
View ArticleI’m in love with Paris says Helen Orr
My husband and I seem to end up in Paris for a week or so each year. We don’t waver from our decision to see a new country each year (Turkey last year, Egypt this year) but convince ourselves that it...
View ArticleBoomer Blokes – A Threatened Species
If you are a bloke of a certain age, say 60-something or older, you could well be a walking time-bomb with disease (breeding for years) about to present itself. To reflect my point, right now I have...
View ArticleRelationships are Cornerstone for Healthy Men
Close relationships can form the cornerstone for a man’s whole life but friendships with other men are also an important source of support and understanding, says the Adelaide Northern Division of...
View ArticleJulia casts shadow over justice
What a great pivotal moment in Australian politics. Former South Australian, Julia Gillard is Australia’s first female Prime Minister, made even more momentous when she visited the first Female...
View ArticleFitness for longevity
The icy wind bites right through one’s bones on this freezing June dawn and the sea is ink black as Zina Meredith begins heaving herself up off the cold, damp sand. counting her push-ups. A burly...
View ArticleA check-up in time
Mallala plant operator Robert Angus had no idea he was a dead man walking around with chronic heart disease until he made a snap decision to visit the doctor on his day off. It was the Monday before...
View ArticleFabulous Food by Fred
Take the gourmand’s good oil of French taste – truffle and inject it between the skin and flesh of chickens and marinade . “la truffe’’ in Kangaroo Island honey. And Voila!. These titillating treats...
View Articlewomen’s artistic works inspire
We women need to learn how to buy things for ourselves rather than always buy gifts for others. I mentioned this thought when I opened the latest exhibition at the Burra Regional Art Gallery which was...
View ArticleMy father Frank
My father, Frank, has reached the grand age of 91, which is the first thing he tells anyone he meets. He immediately follows with the statement “I’m travelling very well for an old bugger.’’ And yes,...
View ArticleBastille Day – Heads could roll!
French president Nicolas Sarkozy can’t seem to take a trick right now. About two out of three – 64 per cent of the French public dislike him and disapprove of his actions as President. Not only did...
View ArticleOne July day- A lesson in tolerance
It’s Saturday morning and I have hair appointment this morning at Gauci hair stylists at Mitcham and a speaking engagement for my book From France With Love at 1pm. The beautician at Gauci is a recent...
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