Blooming tasty!
These flower themed cupcakes are just the perfect way to say I love you to your mum this Mother’s Day, and they are really...
Proud Mary: a river story
Precede
You farm on flood plain because it’s the best ground, it’s beautiful, fertile soil.
You expect it to flood, and probably every year there’ll...
Running hot and cold
When I was a kid at high school in the 1960s, I became friendly with an immigrant Finnish brother and sister whose dad had...
Glory days of the junket
A couple of weeks back I wrote in these pages about a fabulous junket of long ago, travelling through Europe staying at grand hotels...
Tewantin’s pioneer days
By early 1870, the McGhie, Luya and Co timber partnership had built an extensive sawmill at Mill Point on the shores of Lake Cootharaba...
Remembering ‘One-Shot’
One-Shot Murray would have turned 100 last month and no doubt would have received a letter from the Queen. He might have even sent...
Love and random strangers
Bestselling author Trent Dalton finally made it to Noosa last weekend where he was mobbed by adoring readers as they snatched up copies of...
Paul Smith, image maker
Way back when Paul Smith was a semi-professional skier and snowboarder based in Switzerland, much in demand to star in action photo shoots for...
Noosa’s hidden history
A decade or two ago a friend of mine was helping with a spring clean at a local newspaper office when she noticed an...
From Peter to “Kuruvita”
After two years at a restaurant called Crab Apple in suburban Sydney, cutting his teeth alongside a chef named Scott, who smoked while he...
Peter and the black kitchen
Peter Kuruvita’s CV reads like a who’s who of the great and the good of the kitchen across several continents.
The names of the...
Not just any small town
In the world of books, self-publishing can be a thankless task, in which the list of jobs you need to complete to get your...
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Noosa Christian College prepares for opening evening
Nestled within a charming semi-rural environment, only 20 minutes away from Noosa Heads and the beaches, lies Noosa Christian College.
Established with the aim...
