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    Movie Review: Chronicle. When power literally goes to your head.

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    MOVIE REVIEW: Kate Lippiatt reviews The Artist.

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  • Lamb steaks with potato cakes + roasted tomatoes Serves 4  Ingredients 4 leg lamb steaks, trimmed (125g approx each) olive oil, for brushing lemon pepper, to sprinkle 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, halved   Potato Cakes 900 g Desiree potatoes, peeled 3... Read More
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    In today’s fast-paced world, women can cave into stress too easily, but as Flourish reader Pauline learns from her children, sometimes the simplest reasoning for not doing a chore, makes the most sense.

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  • Yabbies with Garlic, Chilli + Feta from Sharnee Beard I remember so fondly when I was a child, frequently spending Sunday evenings yabbying with the whole family on the banks of one of our dams on the farm.  Once cleaned, the yabbies were simply boi... Read More
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Some of My Favourite Japanese Words

  Every language has words that don't have an English equivalent and describe a situation or feeling better than one singular English word. A classic is the German 'Schadenfreude - delight at the misfortune of others'. Recently I've been...

Memories of Japan & Earthquake Living

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I was lucky enough in my backpacking days eons ago to get my PADI scuba diving certificate on the island of Guam in Micronesia.                                                A beautiful place and an amaz...

Procrastination...

                    The other evening I found myself meticulously repairing the kids' jigsaw and games' boxes.  The kind of job that has needed doing for ages, and is an ongoing one (little toddler feet aren't adept at stepping NEXT to th...

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  • 23 May 2010

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    Movie Review: Food, Inc.

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  • 22 April 2011

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  • 19 March 2011

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    What about RAW milk?

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    Trying to conceive?
    Naturopathic Medicine Physician, Chevonne Clasen, discusses how to overcome fertility problems naturally.

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  • 14 February 2011

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    Movie Review: Vincent Wants to Sea (MA)

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    Movie Review: The King's Speech,     reviewed by Emma O'Donoghue.
    The King's Speech is a beautiful, funny and genuine depiction of a man's determination to overcome a lifelong personal obstacle.

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