Gardening
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Gardening
IS IT TIME TO RETHINK OUR GARDENING PRACTICES?
Whether you agree with Climate Change or not, the fact is, as a country, we are getting hotter and hotter, -
Gardening
PLANT AND GROW NEW-SEASON FRUIT TREES!
July and August are the time of year that new-season trees and other plants begin to arrive in garden centres.
Antiques
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Collectibles
Antiques and Collectables
Collecting is a hobby that lasts a lifetime and gives much joy and pleasure. Those memorable finds, the great people -
Collectibles
Antiques and Collectables
Collect the past and invest in your future, with an accumulation of knowledge and great items with history to share.
Fishing
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Fishing
HERE COME THE MONSTERS!
Giant mudcrabs crawling through the mangrove forests and rumbling down the port from the upper reaches of the Karuah River -
Fishing
SUPER SNAPPER SNAP
If there is better snapper country than Port Stephens, I would like to know where it is. You can catch
Books
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Books
FLAWED HERO
TRUTH, LIES AND WAR CRIMES Chris Masters Allen & Unwin. RRP $34.99 On 25 May 2023, after a defamation -
Books
Engaging with Ageing
Anne Ring Recently, I heard the phrase “Stand up and speak out”. And I realised that that is exactly what -
Books
DID I EVER TELL YOU THIS?
SAM NEILL Text Publishing. Rrp $49.99 I went on a holiday for a week and took Sam Neill along. Well, his -
Books
TRUMP’S AUSTRALIA
Bruce Wolpe Published by Allen & Unwin RRP $34.99 On the evening before it was announced that Donald Trump had -
Books
ON THE ASHES.
(The Greatest Sporting Contest of All) Gideon Haigh Published by Allen & Unwin 2023 RRP $34.99 I made the mistake of -
Books
ELEVEN LETTERS TO YOU: A MEMOIR
Helen Elliott Text Publishing. RRP $34.99 Helen Elliott is a prominent literary critic and journalist who has chosen to reflect
Recipes
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Recipes
TENDERHEART
Hetty Lui McKinnon Published by Plum, RRP $59.99, photography by Hetty Lui McKinnon. -
Books Recipes
DINNER BY NAGI MAEHASHI
Macmillan Australia RRP $44.99 Photography by Nagi Maehashi 150 dinner recipes. Fail-proof. Delicious. Addictive. The food you want to cook,
Sport
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Sport
PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT!
Next month will see Taree host the Manning Valley’s first ever major Pickleball tournament at the newly refurbished Wrigley Park -
Sport
Real Kultcha
Welcome to 2022 and good riddance to 2021: what an armpit of a year!!! There was an Ashes cricket series