From Cobargo, May 2025
The fog has been extremely heavy through this year’s autumn period requiring a lot more care when driving but it also gives a dampening effect when it settles on the pastures and plants. It’s not all bad and the colours autumn brings are simply breathtaking.
The 2025 World Jersey conference tour selected the farm of local dairy farmers Aaron and Emma Salway for guests from New Zealand, Germany, America, Canada and … Read more »
From Dignams Creek, May 2025
We are officially a divided community in Dignams Creek/Wullunthar.
Folks on the north of Dignams Creek are cut off from the highway and their neighbours. A ‘Road Closed’ sign on a fence stops anyone trying to cross the old wooden bridge that is half down, and a new concrete one is soon to go up.
As previously reported, the timeliness and accuracy of communications from both Councils has … Read more »
From Tilba, May 2025
Music is a universal language and its exercise may well be a measure of the spirit of the community in which it happens. No surprises then that The Drom, Central Tilba’s active pub hub, is the venue for The Drom String Sessions that began at the start of the year and happen monthly. Open to anyone who plays a stringed instrument, the sessions are an opportunity to play with other … Read more »
by Raynor Winn
reviewed by Wendy Tucker
First published in 2018, this memoir/travelogue has had a new burst in popularity. It has been made into a much-hyped film and chosen by many libraries for their book clubs and for their Words and Music programs. It received glowing reviews and was shortlisted for the Costa Awards. It mainly attracted adjectives such as: inspirational, liberating, regenerative, courageous and, of course, life changing. And these adjectives usually mean that I won’t … Read more »
by Mark Evans
The genus Salvia is the largest in the mint family (Lamiaceae) and among the biggest in the entire plant kingdom – currently ranked twenty-fifth – with 1,024 recognised species and many more cultivars and hybrids.
The type species, Salvia officinalis (common sage), serves as the genus’s botanical anchor, defining the key traits shared by all other salvia species. Common sage has a rich history in traditional medicine. The Egyptians valued its healing … Read more »
by Linda Sang
Ingredients:
125g butter
1 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
Zest of a small lemon
2 eggs
2 cups self-raising flour
1 cup of cooked, mashed pumpkin (use a dry pumpkin, not Kent), cook 350g to get 1 cup
1 tsp mixed spice, a pinch of salt
375g packet of mixed dried fruit
Method:
Cream butter, sugar and zest. Add eggs one at a time, beating … Read more »