On a beautiful spring-like day family and friends gathered on the Fremantle Arts Centre lawn, to help celebrity chef Anna Gare launch her first cookbook Homemade: simply delicious food. Interviewed…
In honour of Fathers Day I thought I’d let you into a little secret I recently discovered. Wandering around the Fremantle Chilli Festival, I stumbled across a little known fact….…
Amanda asked whether Byron Bay had been taken over with fast food outlets. I can report back from the frontline that I didn’t see one revolving bucket, oversized hamburger, flattened…
There’s just way too much to say about Byron Bay in one post so instead you’ll be seeing a series of posts over the next few days.You know you’re in…
By now you’ll know Red Dog is a story about a charismatic kelpie that charmed the north west of Western Australia, however you may not know how the film came…
While Louis de Bernieres, writer of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Birds Without Wings, and most recently Red Dog, discussed his love of creating ‘possible worlds’, the massive audience spilling out of…
The largely grey haired audience appeared uncomfortable as they waited to glimpse inside the brain of yet another colossal thinker brought to Perth by UWA Extension. This time it was…
Last weekend I’m pretty sure I stumbled across the kryptonite for vegetarians when I set off on a casual shopping expedition with four friends. thanks to Martin CathraeIt just so…
After three weeks of late night trips to the fridge and copious cups of coffee, Western Australians can finally go to bed before 1am. Oh and I guess Cadel Evans…
Would love to show you photos inside the Convention Centre but they weren’t allowed to be used for public viewing, sorry.Day one of three and the Dalai Lama sat crossed…
When Manu Feidel cycled into the Perth Convention Centre Celebrity Theatre on an old black bike, dressed in black trousers, a striped t shirt, beret and with a bread laden cane…
What’s a blog without a food article hey? The following post appeared on the health and wellness blog http://www.wellnesswa.com.au/ which has all kinds of information about health/beauty products and issues in…
Before going to the ACDC Family Jewels exhibition at the Perth Museum, I appreciated ACDC and the bands place in rock history. I’d even been known to yell out a…
Last month I managed to catch the last two days of the Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne. © The Ponder RoomA lovely sunny winter afternoon with the helicopter pad beckoning,…
“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”. Nelson Mandela The Vikings Arrive © The Ponder Room “All men [and women]…
While in St Kilda I came across a great little strip of shops on Blessington Street. One of them, Lentil As Anything, was a non-profit vegetarian restaurant with a difference.©…
Spending my afternoon off walking around St Kilda, it wasn’t long before my trained marketing eye settled on Puppy Phat, which describes itself as ‘a pet lifestyle store’. Inside I found…
How long does it take you to put your makeup on in the morning, 5 minutes, 20, an hour and a half? And how many people are usually involved? Model…
