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The Taste Of Tasmania

I recently spent a week in Tasmania for a bit of R&R but still managed to drag the girlfriend around some wine regions for work. She’s a good sport and put up with me stopping at just about every single winery we passed. We all know some Tasmanian labels: Jansz and Ninth Island will spring [...]

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Waverley’s Water Women – Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie

It is unsurprising, given our glorious coastline, that Waverley has been home to, or a significant influence upon, so many female swimmers. Some have just paddled recreationally, others have swum competitively and a select few have gone on to international glory. 2012 is the centenary of the Stockholm Olympic Games, significant as these were the [...]

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Hung Like a Barnacle

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even barnacles do it. Yes, even barnacles have sex. If you thought living your life with your head glued to a rock would limit your sexual prowess, think again. Barnacles can be found on coastal rock platforms and on floating objects such as buoys, driftwood, boats and even whales. [...]

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Started, Then Stopped – Some Recent Start-Up Duds

The Internet. It’s tops. What is more tops is the way we use it nowadays. It’s almost impossible to separate our online lives from our real ones. When was the last time you told someone you were ‘going onto the Internet’ to do something? We don’t tell people we used electricity last night, or how [...]

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The Clumsy Home Minder

Jenkins was a true champion. His profession as a fire fighter had dealt him many a tough situation. He was a man’s man and a player’s player. But his mettle was surely tested late one evening twelve months ago when he turned out to a raging fire at a mansion in Vaucluse. Not only did [...]

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DIY Takeaway – Lamb Curry and Homemade Naan

As the cooler weather settles in you may be looking for something warm and delicious to fill you up for dinner. While it’s easy to reach for the phone to call your favourite curry house, why not try making your own takeaway at home? You’ll save loads and might even enjoy yourself in the process. [...]

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Farewell To Free-To-Air Television

I rarely watch free-to-air commercial television anymore. I get my news from the Net, watch sport on pay TV or at the pub, catch movies at the cinema and indulge in television series on DVD or download them online. The kiss of death was given to the newspaper industry a number of years ago and [...]

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Photo: Grant Brooks

A Helping Hand: Mal Ward And Forever Johnno

Mal Ward founded local charity Forever Johnno when his son Johnno was diagnosed with liver problems back in the year 2000… Tell us a about Forever Johnno in a paragraph… Forever Johnno has been set up to help sick kids in hospital. Which hospitals are you helping? The Westmead Children’s Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick [...]

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Video of the Week – Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony for the start of the winter swimming season at Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club is held on the first Sunday of May each year. This year Jason Wingrove took a couple of ridiculously expensive videos cameras down there with him and put together this nice little video. Funnily enough, the sea temperature is [...]

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Housetraining Your Puppy

Housetraining a puppy is a fairly simple process but one that causes much frustration for owners. Puppy owners often have unrealistic expectations, expecting their pup to know almost immediately that it should do its business outside or somewhere specifically chosen by its owners. The key to housetraining your puppy is to set it up to [...]

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