Recently, Fiona Kotvojs shared a very interesting observation when she and I were down at the Folk Festival selling thousands of sausages and steak sandwiches for the Cobargo Fire Brigade (as you do when you’re a vegetarian who feels guilty for not attending training). She started to count down all the second and third generation people who grew up, left and have now returned to call Diggies home. … Read more »
Mother’s Day at Four Winds in Barragga Bay, Bermagui features Djinama Yilaga who will be performing ancient Yuin stories and songs.
In the forest … by the sea – photographs, prints and paintings
An exhibition of works by Anh-Thu and Roger Stuart at Shop7 ArtSpace, Bermagui Wharf is on display from 20 March to 7 April.
We live south of Bermagui, on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, a place where spotted gum forest meets the sea. This place and its surrounding region have inspired our photography, printmaking and … Read more »
Garnet
by Jennifer Severn
Vine Leaves Press
Reviewed by Wendy Tucker
Garnet is a new novel by local author Jennifer Severn. It follows her successful memoir, Long Road to Dry River which was shortlisted for the Finch Prize for memoir. An earlier manuscript of Garnet was shortlisted for the Viva la Novella prize and, now that it has been published, Garnet is a finalist for the Wishing Shelf … Read more »
by Mark Evans
Gardening columnists like to hand out rules. Prune here, plant then, wait for this, avoid that. Advice pages tend to work that way because readers like certainty. But too many rules can make gardening sound intimidating, so it may come as a relief, or an annoyance, to hear that many of those rules are really just guidelines.
Of course, … Read more »
It is interesting how having a surfeit of produce can be described as abundant or bountiful but when it goes much further it becomes a glut. So, as a gardener, when you are living with a profusion of … (fill in the crop of the moment – tomatoes, cucumbers, soft fruits, whatever) it feels wonderfully lavish but when it tips over to an overwhelming amount we enter the zone of glut. … Read more »