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I love reading the letters on Your Page. When someone mentions a particular story they loved, I think, “Oh, I remember that one”, or if it’s one I missed, I’ll go back and find that issue and read it. I enjoyed Mary Refalo’s letter in the recent Chri

IAM BR ACED FOR THE sag of January. It’s a new thing for me. Usually, January is one of my favourite months. The real beginning of the year (February) seems far away and the weeks feel fat and lazy with the promise of no routines aside from the crick

ON A FARM, everything breaks all at once. If your windmill is going to break, it will happen in the same week that the ride-on lawnmower dies, the farm ute is declared unfixable by the mechanic, and the roller door on the hay shed suddenly breaks – s

I OFTEN START my column with a retrospective look over my shoulder, and this time is no different. One of the first cookbooks I bought was by the great and sadly departed Nico Ladenis, a self-taught chef who predated the Marcos, Jamies and Gordons. O

EVERY HOME COOK has a go-to cake recipe and for Helen Campbell (nee May), it was Jessie’s Sand Cake, a simple butter cake with a hint of vanilla. “She was a great cook and had recipes she trotted out a lot – particularly Jessie’s Sand Cake because sh