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Believe it or not, this sweet, moist and nutty cake is completely gluten, grain, sugar and dairy free. It’s nut free too, and it’s paleo. It’s densely packed with wonderfully healthy flavours and ingredients includ...

Recycling – a no-brainer, right? Throwing rubbish in the yellow and blue recycling bins keeps waste out of landfill and recovers materials to use again. Manufacturing products this way uses less energy and water th...

It was 4am at the Chitabe camp and I’d been awake for a while listening to the haunting animal sounds outside my room. The most prominent was the guttural growl of two lions, with owls, monkeys, cicadas and a variety o...

Only ‘It Girl’ Cara Delevingne could ditch the dress code and wear a revealing black crop top (showing as much skin as it covered) and white high-waisted trousers to one of the biggest red carpet events international...

Winter is almost here, and while I haven’t seen any ‘white walkers’ among us, some of the unwashed and hairy local hipsters certainly do remind me of Mance Rayder (excuse the Game of Thrones reference). The winter ...

Following sixty years of driving without a blemish on her record, Monica reckoned it was nearly time to hang up the boots and hand in her licence. Aged seventy-six, her wits were still as sharp as a tack, but the crowded...

It is easy to fall into the trap of opting for the tried and tested favourites when it comes to purchasing a bottle of plonk, especially when you’re shelling out significant sums of money to do so. But sometimes it is ...

When I was in Centennial Park one afternoon in mid-March I came across about a dozen Musk Lorikeets, in among the trees that follow the fenced drain that runs along the boundary of Mission Fields. Some were feeding high ...