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Escape the everyday

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Welcome Letter
Yesterday I did some weeding. It was long overdue and I must be honest and admit I can’t remember the last time I did any gardening. The sun was shining, the soil was soft from the rain and the weeds were abundant. A better description would be ‘out
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In This Issue...
Alice is a writer and farmer whose country roots run deep. She interviewed television presenter and author Myf Warhurst about her own rural youth on page 30. “We live and work on my family’s 2000-hectare Black Angus cattle and crossbred sheep farm,”
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Editor Kylie ImesonCreative director Sarah FaragoDeputy editor Hannah JamesQueensland contributing editor Claire MactaggartArt director Bernhard SchmitzContributing art director Nina DornStylist Kate LincolnCopy editors Greta Dumbleton, Sue Ramsey, D
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Your Page
Deniliquin resident Bianca Armytage triumphed in the ‘local hero’ category in our Legends of the Land awards. Having faced a breast cancer diagnosis at age 33, Bianca now dedicates herself to providing vital support for local cancer patients through
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House To Home
From drab and old-fashioned to fresh and sophisticated, wallpaper has evolved in recent years. Experiment with a bold paper on just one wall – or go for gold and wrap the room in this pretty pear-tree design, Pirum by Galerie. Visit nattyandpolly.com
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November
Expect a sea of lilac as the town of Grafton celebrates the beauty of the jacaranda tree. From the Float Parade to Drag Queen Bingo and the crowning of the Jacaranda Queen, the annual Jacaranda Festival has plenty to see and do. This year, the jacara
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Ode To The Wether
SUMMER IS JUST AROUND THE corner, and with it Christmas (sorry to cause alarm). When I first moved down here, the lead-up to Christmas was made even more frantic as it coincided with our wether shearing. Indeed, one memorable year we actually finishe
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Sky’s The Limit
THERE’S A BEFORE-AND-AFTER in Josie Clarke’s childhood. The ‘before’ was the agronomist’s first five years of life – up to the moment her father, Glen, had a truck accident that left him a paraplegic. The ‘after’ is every moment since. “Our lives cha
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My Country Childhood
FOR MYF WARHURST, music was a way to learn about the world beyond the small country town where she grew up, and it ended up becoming a constant thread throughout her life. “When I was younger, music was a way of expressing emotions and feelings I did
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Outside World
ALTHOUGH THEY’D BEEN friends since university, sparks didn’t fly between Kate Brow and John Murdoch until he returned from a trip overseas. When the career break motivated John, a former accountant, to return to his family farm in country New South W
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Bohemian Flair
SELF-DESCRIBED “TEXTILE MAVERICK” Tigger Hall is a passionate collector, gathering objects and ideas from her life – past and present – and weaving them together into a richly layered tapestry. On a recent trip to Paris, Tigger squeezed two zinc fini
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Past To Present
GRANT AND BEC STATTON HAD a carefully considered wish list when it came to searching for a new home in the Queensland town of Toowoomba. The family of six had outgrown their abode and hoped to find a larger property in a central location, with room f
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Riviera Reverie
THE REGION OF ALSACE, in northern France, has many virtues, but its weather is not among them. Dreaming of sunshine, warmth and the Mediterranean sea, Mathilde and her husband escaped the grey and rainy skies of their home city of Strasbourg and head
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Cook's Delights
This 1851 cottage in the NSW Southern Tablelands may look as if it’s always been this way, but owners Amanda and Brad had to paint the mission-brown kitchen white, and gave the red-brick AGA surround a coat of Mezzie + Frank Coalmine while they were
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Put On A Floor Show
For a gentle landing as you get out of bed in the morning, you can’t beat a plush carpet. Isobel Walsh describes the style of decor at the Queenslander in Newrybar, NSW, she shares with partner Millie Cooper as “country cottage with a modern coastal
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Earth Meets Sky
JO WAKELIN’S 2000-SQUARE-METRE garden in the Central Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island is dominated by its surroundings: mountains that reach up to 2000 metres. There are no obvious boundaries, and the garden, as she notes, “may be under an
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Falling In Love With ’lents
I USED TO BE SO RUDE about succulents. I freely admit: I just didn’t get it. I did not understand the loyalty and the single-mindedness of succulent fans. I watched friends carefully relocate whole succulent gardens when they moved house. I remember
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Natural Muse
WHEN ARTIST KRISHNA HEFFERNAN (nee Grant) explores the bushland surrounding her home in Queensland’s Granite Belt, she takes note of the details; whether it be a tree trunk, a wildflower’s delicate stamen or tiny bush orchid. Inspiration is often fou
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Tell Me A Story
THE TOWNHOUSE TASMANIA Close to the centre of the pretty town of Launceston is a little yellow townhouse that’s full of colour, pattern, art and life. Dating from the 1840s, the house has two generous bedrooms and a spacious living room and separate
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From The Ground Up
ONE OF THE BALLENTINE family’s favourite jobs on their beef and cropping property Namgoori, just south of Banana in Central Queensland, is to shift a mob of cattle into a fresh section of a multi-species cover crop. With up to 12 different plants in
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Book Club
Jacinta Parsons, ABC Books, $34.99 We’ve had too many chirpy books about being a woman and making the most of the autumnal years. This isn’t one of them. Parsons rages: “On dating apps, men’s desirability peaks at 50 years of age and women’s at 18.”
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Field Guide
Discover Gregory Ladner’s vibrant summer collection, featuring on-trend pieces including the lightweight Abby Satchel. [email protected] The Australian-made Bonadiesi Dining Table in mist stain with ebony legs features a sleek, rustic design with
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Highway Robbery
WHEN WE CROSSED THE mountains and headed out west about 170 years after Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, we found the journey not so rugged as they had portrayed it. Sure, our intended Nirvana was around 360 kilometres from the coast, but the last 30

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