The Sweet Spot. Making LIfe Sweeter.

The Rough End. You got a bad deal.

Club Tropicana. Leisure and the Arts

The Chocolate Factory: BOOK REVIEW

The Chocolate Factory is Tasmanian writer Mary-Lou Stephens’s second historical novel with Harper Collins. Set in 1920s Hobart, the story unfolds in the aftermath of WW1, as two ambitious women, Dorothy and Maisie, are building their careers (unusual for women of...

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Pineapple Style. Queensland Style.

JUICY. SEX AND SEXUALITY

Aqua. On Swimming

LITTLE PINES. FOR KIDS.

Best storybook for small children

How good does it feel when you buy a child a toy or book, they start playing with it immediately and all the other kids of all ages want to play with it too? That's what happened when I bought my great-nephew Byron the Montessori Story Book for his fourth birthday....

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GREEN SHOOTS. ON GROWTH.

The Long Read.

SHORT STORY: Mum and the orange juice

My mother was not one to suffer fools gladly. She had a caustic sense of humour and when she uttered one of her frequent sharp comments, Dad would say, ‘Ah, there she goes again with that Irish sense of humour.’ Mum was an observer of people and though she was not...

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