Quel Horreur! Cry French Chefs
Quel Horreur! France’s most distinguished chefs are trembling at the prospect that disgruntled diners can describe dining fiascos in the world’s most influential restaurant guide. The august Michelin...
View ArticleFarewell to my lovely Frenchman
It is time to share with you that my darling husband, Olivier Foubert died peacefully on Friday, May 11, after a 16-month journey with advanced prostate cancer. One of my Facebook friends wrote that...
View ArticleEvery rose tells a love story
Our garden was a “work in progress’’ when Olivier died and at his funeral I told the congregation that it would now become his memorial garden. I shared that we had intended to add roses, irises,...
View ArticleGrief Grabs Like Fear
It was C.S. Lewis who stated on the death of his wife that “I never knew grief felt so like fear’’. However, I would say my grief is like a juggernaut, a frightening feeling which squeezes out all joy,...
View ArticleMarie’s Take on Hindley Street A Winner.
It’s known as Adelaide’s seedy strip, but renowned naïve artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison has captured Hindley Street in a whole new light – as a colourful, eccentric streetscape – and her images are to...
View ArticleA Memorable Encounter with Music
Today, June 23, is Olivier’s birthday and a strange thing happened. Friends Ruth and Graham Bettany invited me to visit them at Oakbank in the Adelaide Hills to keep my mind off the significance of the...
View ArticleMushrooms and memories on hillside stroll
I am trying hard to nudge out grief from my mind by paying attention to the joy of life around me. There is delight simply by walking down my street with Oscar on his lead sniffing at every blade of...
View ArticleFrance’s fleshy fungi taste “Magnifique!”
What to do with those two cepe mushrooms I found on the roadside? Well, a French recipe is a must because I first ate the fleshy fungi in France. I find a perfect recipe in Auguste Escoffier’s book...
View ArticleThe bitch factor in French politics:
It comes as no surprise that former International Monetary Fund chief French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his high profile wife Anne Sinclair have split. The once-powerful French couple have...
View ArticleLunch reveals lives of older boomers
We are seven women of a certain age, who are lunching together at Kate’s place to celebrate my long-time friend Sheryl’s birthday. Sheryl is a baby boomer creeping further into her early 60s and we...
View ArticleSA Women vie for Senate spot
Riverland entrepreneur, Anne Ruston is remaining stoic in her bid to contest the coveted Senate vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Mary Jo Fisher despite a late entry candidate, Kate Raggatt,...
View ArticleFood a Focus in Anti-cancer “synergy”.
The fight against cancer starts in the kitchen according to anticancer guru David Serwan-Schreiber. “Food is something we give our body three times a day. Everything we eat has a profound impact on...
View ArticleMotherhood yields rich human harvest
My week has been filled with wonderful family activities to gladden the saddest heart. The three grand-children are visiting from Queensland with their mother, my daughter Serena and how sweet it...
View ArticleBig family, birthday fun
Today is my birthday and it is also my only sister’s birthday. We were both born today, July 15, but 16 years apart. She is my baby sister, which is why I have invited myself to her house for dinner....
View ArticleMy own Joyeux anniversaire
Today is my first birthday since Olivier died and I have been dreading it. Usually Olivier would greet me with “Joyeux anniversaire cherie’’ and hand me his gift while I was still in bed. I would...
View ArticleRoses to bring Magic to Memorial Garden
It’s Thursday, July 19 and I am about to begin colouring in my garden. I have donned by new gardening gloves and am busy working in my fledgling hillside garden with a good friend, who has brought a...
View ArticleLocal Community Life Lifts the Sad Spirit
The first rule for travelling with grief (because it is impossible to shrug off the process) is to get out of the house regularly. Friends have been fabulous taking me to small social events, but it...
View ArticleMy new grand-daughter
Joyful news at last! On July 26, a new grand-daughter was born to great excitement and I share this amazing family event in two articles – Sweet Scarlett Sweeps Sadness Aside and an emotional piece...
View ArticleSweet Scarlett Rose sweeps sadness aside
Joy of Joys! I am a grandmother again because today my daughter-in-law Vanessa gave birth to a daughter, making my son, Tyson, a first-time father. Our happiness at this safe delivery of Scarlett...
View ArticleScuttlebutt and sexism spices up French politics
France’s First Lady, Valerie Trierweiler has vowed to count to 10 before posting anymore tweets following the fallout when she sent a twitter which ruined the political chances of her rival, the French...
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