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In the name of hope Trishelle Sayuuni has been held at gunpoint, survived kidnappings, but her dream has been realised with a ‘hope village’ for Uganda’s most vulnerable children Travel
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OULD you pack up your life, give up your career and buy a one-way ticket overseas to fight for a cause you so passionately believed in? Inside today meet two women who have done just that. School teacher and our cover talent Trishelle Sayuuni flew to Uganda to chase her ambition of opening a charity and school for impoverished children called 100% Hope. She was taken hostage at gunpoint on her first day and survived kidnapping attempts, but could that stop her from realising her dream? Plus, read the story of Sharon Pincott, the former high-flying corporate-turned-intrepidconservationist who spent more than a decade in volatile Zimbabwe living in the Hwange bush and fighting for the lives of elephants, while forming extraordinary and life-changing bonds with them. Also inside, discover the Mayan ruins buried deep in the Mexican jungle. The CWA ladies serve up cocktails to complement the jamminess of scones in time for National Martini Day tomorrow. Ayden and Jess show you how to build a fire pit in the backyard. Plus, child or adult, why you must go see Pixar’s Finding Dory this weekend. Enjoy the mag!
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TR AVEL READ: One elephant is killed every 15 minutes in Africa. Read about one woman’s fight to save them.
inside today read // School teacher Trishelle Sayuuni has been taken
hostage at gunpoint and survived kidnapping attempts, but nothing could stop her from helping Uganda’s most impoverished children.
read // Meet the high-flying
corporate-turned-conservationist who spent 13 years in volatile Zimbabwe fighting to save Africa’s remaining elephant population.
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HANNEL 9’s latest reality TV offering blatantly pulls at your heartstrings, and uses vulnerable families to do it. The Briefcase puts Aussies who are “doing it tough” in a moral dilemma they should never have to face. Thinking they have signed up for a show documenting how they make ends meet, the families answer the door to find a silver briefcase filled with bright red stacks of $20 bills – $100,000 worth. It’s a life-changing amount of money, but the gift also comes with a letter explaining that the family must choose how much to keep, and how much to give to another deserving family. In each episode two families have three days to decide how much to keep as they receive more information about the other family. But they don’t know the other party is in the exact same position. If each family gives the other everything, or the same amount, then they’re all winners. The part where it gets messy is when one party gives more than the other. The real clanger is they must decide before they meet up, meaning they can’t change their minds after they discover what the other family has decided to do. It’s a dangerous game of “who deserves it more”. Episode one features a sheep farming family who lost nearly everything in a bushfire two years ago, and a young mum who is in dire need of new prosthetic limbs after losing her hands and feet to a bacterial disease. Haven’t these people suffered enough? Why do they need to shed even more tears for our prime-time viewing? Nine and the production company could just tell us their stories and give each family $100,000. It would be a feel-good exercise but probably wouldn’t deliver ratings. To the families’ credit, they handle the dilemma with generosity and grace. Somewhere in The Briefcase are the elements for a good show, but instead it is exploitation hiding behind heartbreaking back stories and inspirational people. What I can’t figure out is why Nine would commission its own version of a show that tanked in the US and was cancelled after just six episodes. One critic from Time.com went as far as to declare it the “worst reality TV show ever”. I don’t expect the Australian version to do much better.
w The Briefcase premieres on Channel 9 on Monday. PHOTO: CHANNEL 9
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HE glob sailed through the air in a graceful arc, maintaining its gooey form until it struck its target with supreme precision. It was one of the foulest things I have witnessed since my rotund uncle did a nude duck-dive in a seaweed-infested canal. Comic illustrator Nicky Minus this week pleaded guilty to spitting in the face of a government official at a protest over the creation (through forced amalgamation) of the new Inner West Council in Sydney. You probably saw the footage: a screaming ginger-haired woman leans forward and hocks a gigantic loogie right on to the face of the freshly formed council’s administrator, Richard Pearson.
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In one mouthful, she averted attention from the protesters’ legitimate reason for being there... The court gave Minus an 18-month good behaviour bond, but her reputation as a spitter might take longer to expire. In one mouthful, she averted attention from the protesters’ legitimate reason for being there – unelected lackeys have been summarily installed to push through the State Government’s agenda without oversight from pesky elected councils – and made it all about that broken taboo. Full disclosure: I love the odd salivary expulsion. Find me a nice cliff and, after lobbing a few rocks, I will shoot off some would-be dribble into the depths below. But there is a time and place, and spitting in someone’s face falls short of the criteria. It got me thinking about the changing politics of expelling saliva. Back in the Middle Ages, it was the done thing to have a public spit in Western society because swallowing saliva and whatnot was considered unclean. There were rules. One could spit under the table while eating, but never across it. It was perfectly acceptable to spit while standing so long as
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one rubbed it into the dirt with his foot. Some aristocratic-types as early as the 15th Century had begun to snub their nose at the uncivilised practice, but it was not until the discovery of tuberculosis bacteria in 1882 that a real public campaign to ban it began. It was more to do with avoiding a plague than manners. Asian countries have typically been less worried about the practice, although China has implemented several unsuccessful campaigns to rein it in since the New Life civic education movement in the 1930s – not only for health, but also to minimise the disgust of judgmental tourists. Here in Australia, police and paramedics face the ever-present threat of being spat on by people who might be infected with Hepatitis C, HIV or some other life-altering disease. It has prompted several police jurisdictions to introduce “spit hoods” – cloth hoods, similar to those beekeepers wear, which cover the nose and mouth of offenders who make threats or have a history of spitting at officers. Buddha, who is believed to have lived between the sixth and fourth centuries before Christ, presumably knew little about transferring disease through saliva. An ancient parable tells the story of a stranger who spat in Buddha’s face but received no reaction. He returned the next day, confused and remorseful, throwing himself at Buddha’s feet to beg for forgiveness. None was forthcoming. “The Ganges goes on flowing, it is never the same Ganges again,” Buddha said. “Every man is a river. The man you spit upon is no longer here. I look just like him, but I am not the same, much has happened in these 24 hours! “The river has flowed so much. So I cannot forgive you because I have no grudge against you.” Shockingly, I am not quite as forgiving as Buddha. Strange Politics is a satirical column. Follow Chris Calcino on Twitter: @ChrisCalcino
IT was the story that caused outrage online: A woman in the US quit her job to focus on breastfeeding her boyfriend. But the outrage was at us, the media, for running it. I wrote this story for our websites. While many were unhappy with us for running it, saying it wasn’t news – the stats said something different – thousands were reading it. A colleague, Daily Examiner digital producer Bill North, wrote a piece to explain to his readers why it was news. “Some of that [stories we produce] is high quality material of substance and important breaking news. But some could be what some consider ... well, trash. While these make up a minority of the stories we publish, they’re often the most read, according to our online statistical data.” He compared page views on this yarn with various other local news stories. The breastfeeding story had significantly more. “Would you read it? Evidenced by the angry comments on our Facebook page, some people don’t consider that news but clearly a lot of people do,” he said. That was why we ran it, because people were reading it. It had already broken overseas and was trending heavily on social media. “Our aim is to write about topics you are interested in.” Well said Bill, agreed.
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KIDS COME FIRST: Trishelle has been held at gunpoint, caught up in a riot and thrown in jail, but she stays for the children.
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w Members of the 100% Hope Children’s Choir who are in Australia this month for a fundraising tour of Queensland and New South Wales.
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Hope among the destitution Trishelle Sayuuni had a dream and acted on it: she left home behind to care for Ugandan children B Y Ch r is C al c in o
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USTRALIAN schoolteacher Trishelle Sayuuni found herself held at gunpoint for seven terrifying hours almost immediately after stepping off a plane in Uganda. Most new arrivals would sprint immediately back to the airport and the safety of their home country after their release. But Mrs Sayuuni was on a mission to change the lives of impoverished children and would not be swayed by violent threats.
The intimidation did not stop there, but her passion was stronger than the obstacles before her. Mrs Sayuuni now looks after more than 100 local Ugandan children through her charity 100% Hope, a venture born from a dream to help some of the world’s most vulnerable children. Its story began in Dubbo in 2006 when Mrs Sayuuni, then named Trishelle Grady, was studying to become a teacher. “I had a dream about starting a hope village in Africa, helping kids with education and nutrition, setting up homes and different things,” she said. “Three years later, I was teaching on the Gold Coast and I made the Australian dragon boating team.
“I represented Australia at the world championships in 2009 in Prague, and I decided to tack on a trip to Uganda. “On my first day there I was held at gunpoint for seven hours. “But I fell in love with the community and the kids and I knew that was where I was meant to be.” She took time off work every year to return to the landlocked country until 2012, when she quit her job, packed her life into a single suitcase and bought a one-way ticket to what had already become her spiritual home. That was when the volunteer-run charity 100% Hope really got off the ground. “We’ve been able to buy five acres of land, and we started a
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I represented Australia at the world championships in 2009 in Prague, and I decided to tack on a trip to Uganda. On my first day there, I was held at gunpoint for seven hours. school last year with three classrooms,” she said. It has not been clear sailing for the budding organisation. Mrs Sayuuni was lucky to survive being caught in the middle of riots in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, while driving from the airport to the charity’s village. She has been thrown in prison and has had someone hired to kill her, all because a local charity she had previous dealings with was discovered to be corrupt. “We couldn’t keep working with them – all international funding for them stopped when they were exposed,” she said. “They did all they could to get me out of the country or killed. “We’ve had kids kidnapped as well. They’ve tried a lot of different angles. “But I have great contacts because of the rubbish that went on.” Mrs Sayuuni now rates the Ugandan president’s representative for her district of more than 400,000 people as one of her “greatest friends”. “He offers us protection now,” she said. “There have been times I wanted to give up but the kids keep me going.” Mrs Sayuuni brought a choir of children the charity cares for to Australia this month for a fundraising tour of Queensland and New South Wales. It was a life-changing experience for the children and has already raised more than $75,000, but more help is needed. “The purpose of the tour is to raise $100,000 so we can build five classrooms,” she said. “We started a church, a piggery project and finished building two four-bedroom boys’ homes. “We’re still planning for the girls – we hope to build theirs next year. “It has been mind-blowing. “It was the kids’ first time in an aeroplane and their first time out of Uganda, and they are loving it. “They’ve gone to the beach and learnt to swim, but they’re not so fond of the cold weather. “They also don’t like lettuce because they think it’s cows’ food.” Mrs Sayuuni has had some big changes in her own life, too. Four months after moving to Uganda she adopted a 10-week-old girl whose name, coincidentally, was Hope. “She was a miracle baby born on the streets. She shouldn’t have survived,” Mrs Sayuuni said. “She’s now three-and-a-half years old.” Mrs Sayuuni also found love with a local Ugandan man, Fred, with whom she had a baby girl, Destiny. “I’ve learnt so much it is amazing,” she said. “Do what you can to help one person at a time. “You can’t help everyone, but if everyone does their bit to help somebody the world will be a better place.” To donate to 100% Hope or learn more about its work visit www.100-hope.org.
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w The school that Trishelle Sayuuni’s charity 100% Hope has built in Uganda.
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w A spontaneous and tender moment between Sharon and one of her beloved elephants. PHOTOS: CONTRIBUTED
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Crusade for mighty giants Sharon Pincott spent 13 years fighting to save the animals she fell in love with B Y An n R i c ka rd
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UEENSLAND’S sandy beaches and rolling oceans are a long way from the grasslands of landlocked Zimbabwe but they are exactly what author-activist Sharon Pincott needs to restore her bruised spirit. This now Sunshine Coast resident, who grew up on a vegetable farm in Grantham, has bunkered down back on home soil after 13 years living with elephants in Zimbabwe, working on a voluntary basis under the banner of the Presidential Elephant Conservation Project. It’s somewhat of a healing for Sharon after more than a decade of fighting corrupt politicians and determined poachers in a never-ending quest to save her beloved elephants. Her story is worthy of a run on Australian Story. Indeed presenter Caroline Jones describes Sharon’s newly released book, Elephant Dawn, as “a book to take readers into another world’’. Thirteen years ago Sharon sold her mortgage-free home and gave up her corporate IT job in Brisbane to start a new life with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe, named after a presidential decree granted by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. She arrived in the small and troubled African country with no real plan, no funding or backing, just a starry-eyed notion that she had to do her part in documenting the life of these regal elephants as well as doing her best to protect them from horrible injury or death from poachers, hunters and land claimants. “I’d always loved wildlife,” Sharon said. “When I worked in
w Sharon Pincott and her beloved elephants. PHOTO: XENIA IVANOFF
corporate IT I was contracting so I had the freedom to travel and I’d go backwards and forwards to Africa for holidays. It was in 1993 that I saw my first elephant in the wild and it blew me away.” It was during one of these visits that Sharon met Andy Searle, a wildlife warden in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park who, with his wife and family, became a close friend. His premature death in a helicopter crash in 2000 was the catalyst for Sharon to stop being a visitor to Africa and become a resident instead. “Through Andy I got to understand Africa and wildlife,” she said. “When someone dies prematurely like that, he was just 38,
I was one year younger, that has an impact.” Sharon settled in Zimbabwe, volunteering to work with international scientists and academic researchers. She lived in a tiny hut and in her first years undertook all the menial jobs the scientists and researchers would not touch, such as studying the role elephants play in dispersing acacia seeds. “I had to count the number of acacia seeds in elephant dung,” she said. “There were thousands of them. The elephants eat the acacia trees and their digestive system eliminates the seeds whole.” Living in a tiny hut and sifting through elephant dung was a long way from the comforts of the Australian corporate world, but Sharon never faltered. Her love for the majestic elephants outweighed everything else. “I lived just outside the Hwange National Park,” she said. “That amazement I had at my first sight of an elephant stayed with me. Even though I spent eight hours a day, every day, with the elephants they never lost that power to capture me.” Over the years Sharon developed a bond with entire families of elephants. She gave them all names and could identify an individual elephant in a crowd by some small marking. As she came to know the elephants, they too came to know her, and a bond developed that has been called “one of the most remarkable relationships with wild elephants ever documented’’. “I could identify them like a human or a dog,” Sharon said. “These were wild, free-roaming elephants. I named them all and eventually they recognised their name and came to me when I called, just like a great big grey dog. Elephants are closely
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LIVING DANGEROUSLY: At one stage Sharon was on the Wanted Persons list displayed outside the local police station.
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bonded with each other and they stay together. I learnt how to read their moods, when to stay back and observe, when to let them come to me.” That bond led to an extraordinary encounter one day where one of the elephants came so close to Sharon she instinctively kissed its trunk, a moment that was captured by a film crew making a documentary at the time. “I was so fortunate to have that documented,” Sharon said. The elephant had been lying down and I was worried about her. I called her and she came to the vehicle. She had never come this close before. She was leaning up against the door and I looked up at her. I thought she might have been sick and I instinctively kissed her. I am absolutely convinced she came to me for comfort. I found out later she was pregnant, and like most pregnant women she was obviously having a bad day.” All the while that Sharon was living, learning and loving the elephants, documenting their breeding habits and lives, recording data for the researchers, Zimbabwe was in economic freefall and the political unrest grew daily. “Inflation was at 230 million percent,” she said. “We were using trillion dollar notes. Electricity and water would be cut off. When mandatory land reform was happening, it became very scary. The land was taken from the white farmers violently. Those white farmers who had been there for generations suddenly had nothing. At the same time, the government started taking wildlife land, elephant land.” It was when a government minister came to her and said he had been given permission to use the elephant land as a hunting reserve that Sharon’s inner fighter bubbled to the surface like hot molten lava. While Sharon stresses she was not threatened continuously, nor did she constantly fear for her life throughout this tumultuous time, there were many dangers andseveral menacing situations. “The government man was a personal appointee of Mugabe,” she said. “I had to go up against this man. He had been given approval to use the wildlife land to sport hunt. I took him head on. It (Zimbabwe) is a scary place to be when you are doing something like that. “There were threats that I would be dealt with ‘once and for all’. I was a white foreigner. I was also Australian. President Mugabe hated Australians as well as the Americans and the English.”
Although Sharon had all the odds against her, she also had the help of a small band of people willing to stick their necks out for her and she managed to save the land from the minister attempting to claim it for hunting. “You can imagine winning from him was not easy,” she said. “Then he wanted revenge. He accused me of being a spy, a secret agent working for the Australian government to bring Mugabe down. The thing that kept me fighting was the elephants, having such an amazing relationship with them. I wanted to protect them.” As well as fighting corrupt ministers, there was always the omnipresence of the poachers and over the years Sharon witnessed many of her beloved elephants suffering terrible injury and death. “It was terrible to see the suffering,” she said. “You can’t get it out of your head. It is absolutely horrific. You don’t become immune. It changes your values.” There were many times during the 13 years when Sharon
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I am absolutely convinced she came to me for comfort. Like most pregnant women she was obviously having a bad day. wanted to flee, to return to the peace of Australia, but she always found the courage to stay. “The economic collapse, the political violence, the murders of white farmers and murders of their own people all frightened me,” she said. “At one stage I was on the Wanted Persons list publicly displayed outside the local police station. The intimidation is designed to make you scared so you leave. But the elephants…” Eventually the danger became impossible and when Sharon did leave Zimbabwe it was the Sunshine Coast where she settled, to rebuild her battered spirit and to write a book about her experience. “It was a sad time to walk away from the elephants but I feared that something would happen to me if I stayed,” she said. “Just before I left, the same land I saved was being claimed by somebody else. It was happening all over again. That was just a final thing in a long list.” Sharon Pincott’s book Elephant Dawn is a moving, disturbing
w Elephant Dawn by Sharon Pincott, Allen & Unwin – $32.99. PHOTO: CONTRIBUTED
and often funny saga, but one that is a celebration of love, courage and honour. “Through the years I had to find the courage to stay,” she said. “But in the end I felt like I was in some sort of abusive marriage with Zimbabwe, and like any abusive relationship, sometimes you have to find more courage to leave. I hope my book makes it clear that it is never too late to take that leap of faith into something completely different. And never doubt that one person can help to make a difference.”
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INGREDIENTS: w 8 red tamarillos, stalks attached w 140g
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cinnamon w 3 tsp ground ginger w 6 cups dried fruit – cranberries, dates, sultanas, apple etc, chopped w 3 cups nuts – almonds, cashews chopped w 1 cup pumpkin seeds or pepitas or sunflower seeds w 1 cup coconut w 3 tsp vanilla paste w 400ml coconut oil w 1 cup honey w ½ cup water METHOD: Preheat oven to 150 degrees. Line and oil a large tray with edges or a roasting tray. Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl. Melt vanilla, coconut oil, water and honey in a saucepan, then add to the dry mix. Add more coconut oil if too dry. Pour into a large tray, spreading evenly. Bake for 30-40 minutes until golden and fragrant, regularly checking. You don’t want to overcook and burn the nuts or coconut. Remove, cool and crumble. Store in airtight containers. Your granola will last for several weeks. Serve with your favourite yogurt, coconut cream or Coyo (coconut yogurt).
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raw sugar w 50ml Cointreau w 100g thick Greek-style yogurt w 2 tbs brown sugar. METHOD: Have standing by a large bowl of iced water. Bring a small pot of water to the boil and blanch each tamarillo for 20 seconds, two at a time. They should be completely immersed in the boiling water. Remove with a slotted spoon and drop into the iced water to stop them cooking further. Using a sharp knife or a pair of kitchen shears, cut around the calyx at the stalk end of the fruit and peel the tough skin away. Discard the skin. Combine sugar and two cups of water in a medium saucepan over high heat and bring to the boil. Drop the tamarillos into the liquid and return to the boil. Reduce heat and cover with a lid; poach gently for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and, leaving the fruit in the saucepan, slice each tamarillo in half, leaving the stalk end intact. Add the cointreau and leave for 10 minutes until poaching liquid is a deep ruby colour. Serve fruit with a tablespoon of yogurt sprinkled with a little brown sugar, and with a little of the poaching liquid poured over the tamarillos. You can also serve with a dollop of fresh cream or a scoop of good vanilla ice cream. Serves 4.
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The CWA morning tini
INGREDIENTS: w 45ml Australian gin (West Winds, Melbourne Gin Company, Loch Gin and Four Pillars are some favourites) w 15ml Currong Comestibles Riberry Shrub (if you don’t have any nearby, you can make your own or use a favourite berry cordial or syrup) w 1 pipette Mister Bitters Pink Grapefruit and Agave w Pink grapefruit twist for garnish. METHOD: Combine all ingredients in a shaker and fill with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a pink grapefruit twist, making sure to pinch the twist over the cocktail to release the delicious citrus oils. For a Long Tall Morning Tini – pour the above into a tall glass filled with ice and top with soda water or sparkling grapefruit.
The CWA mocktail
INGREDIENTS: w 30ml Currong Comestibles Rainforest Lime Shrub (you could use a good quality lime cordial) w Mister Bitters Honeyed Apricot and Smoked Hickory (there’s nothing quite like it for the hint of smokiness but any fruit bitters will do) w Soda water w 5-6 fresh raspberries w 1 sprig fresh mint. METHOD: Combine shrub, bitters and raspberries in a tall glass. Fill the glass with ice and top gradually with soda water, stirring to ensure the shrub is mixed in well. Clap mint in your hands to release its flavour and fragrance, and pop it in the top.
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Claimed the trophy for Best in Show (and two others) at the Australian Cool Climate Wine Show in 2015, along with plenty of other awards. Initial hints of complex riesling aromas: soft plastic along with smears of lime butter. Great value. w Rating: 9/10 w RRP: $25 w Alc: 13%
Do you know your martinis? Traditional martinis are made with gin but vodka is also popular. Don’t forget the olive. w Dry martini – less vermouth than gin w Wet martini – more vermouth than gin w Perfect martini – equal measures of vermouth and gin w Dirty martini – add a little brine from the olives w Vesper – gin and vodka, replace vermouth with Lillet Blanc and the olive with lemon peel Shaken or stirred? Shaken with ice martinis are more chilled and slightly more diluted than stirred martinis.
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Awarded a gold medal at the International Wine Challenge in Vienna, 2015. Spiced cassis and Christmassy cherry notes before a smoothing French oak wrapper. Just the right taste profile. Too many Australian merlots fall over their own corpulent oak feet. Fresh blackberry fruits, just ripe plums finishing with a rich, tight vein of tannins. w Rating: 8.5/10 w RRP: $25 w Alc: 13%
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You will find recipes for more uniquely Australian cocktails in the winter edition of Ruth magazine, available at newsagents and by subscription. Phone 07 4690 9300 for details. Funds raised from Ruth go towards the work of the Queensland Country Women’s Association.
Claimed gold at the 2014 China Wine and Spirits Awards. The nose has an earthiness and leafiness of cabernet sauvignon, along with an ashen afterthought before black cherry plum and even a hint of raspberry jube plays out. Hits the flavour button in the middle, if not too deeply, with ripe black fruits. Tannin is well integrated. w Rating: 8/10 w RRP: $16 w Alc: 13.5% Wines available online at shawvineyards.com.au. vinonotebook.com
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HEY can be dirty, wet, dry, shaken or stirred and of course these days they come in many different flavours. The martini has dominated the world cocktail scene since the 1920s – around the time the Queensland Country Women’s Association was formed. And what do they have in common, you ask? The QCWA’s Ruth magazine recently challenged mixologists at Bitters Lab in Melbourne to create the perfect CWA-tini in time for National Martini Day on June 19. Ruth magazine editor Ally Martell put the challenge to the Bitters Lab team. “At first I thought this cocktail would have to be all about tea, scones, jam and cream,” she said. “But how on earth does that translate into a cocktail? So then I thought it needs to be uniquely Australian featuring and supporting emerging Australian-made cocktail ingredients.” Australian gins, vermouths and bitters are creating a sensation in the cocktail world. The unique bush flavours of Maindenii vermouth will have Bond rethinking the Vesper. Then there’s the fantastic range of flavoured bitters and the new/old kid on the block: “the shrub”. “I had to Google ‘shrubs’ because I had no idea what they were,” Ally said. “Apparently they’ve been around since the 17th and 18th centuries and were known back then as ‘drinking vinegar’. They’re like a fruit cordial with a tart vinegar finish and very popular in contemporary cocktails. “You can make your own or check out Aussie varieties at Currong Comesitbles. They make a superb Riberry and a gorgeous Rainforest Lime Shrub – fabulous for giving your mocktails a flavour hit. But when it comes to cocktail flavours you can’t go past a good bitters.” The CWA morning tini will certainly put some vim and vigour into your next morning meeting. The slight jaminess is designed to complement a fresh batch of scones.
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The ruins of Yaxchilan
Mayan magic on show
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HIDDEN GEM: With ruins accesible only by a 40-minute boat ride, the Yaxchilan site allows a visitor to feel like they’re in an Indiana Jones movie.
See the splendour of an ancient civilisation in a Mexican jungle
HOW TO GET THERE: It’s easy to pick up tours from San Cristobal de las Casas that go to the waterfalls and Palenque. You can return that night (long day if you do) or stay in Palenque overnight to do Yaxchilan and Bonampak the next day. The tours are set up so that you can return to San Cristobal or stay in Palenque. There’s not much in Palenque so it’s best to catch an overnight bus to Merida, Tulum or other parts of the Yucatan peninsula so you can check out Chichen Itza and the incredible cenotes of the region too. w HEADS UP: To visit these three sites, you’ll need to become comfortable with a constant state of sweatiness. Take plenty of sunscreen, insect repellent and water. The drawings of war and human sacrifice prove the once-believed peaceful Mayans did have a violent past. But all Mayans are quick to tell you they were peaceful until they merged with the more violent Toltecs. Yaxchilan and Bonampak are a day trip from the more famous Palenque ruins. w Agua Azul waterfalls in the Chiapas region in Mexico.
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OTORING along a river that separates Mexico from Guatemala in a skinny long-tail boat to get to ancient ruins is like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. Throw in a crocodile, vultures circling above and claustrophobia-inducing humidity that has your clothes dripping within seconds, and you know you’re venturing into the jungle. Yaxchilan, once a prominent Mayan city sprawling through the dense jungle, is accessible only on a 40-minute boat journey. The heavy air is punctuated only by the sound of the howler monkeys throwing fiestas in the tree canopies and the occasional bird call. Based on the architecture, ceramics and hieroglyphic inscriptions, archeologists have determined Yaxchilan began before 250AD and ended about 900AD, with its peak period between 600 and 810AD. There are more than 120 structures in the central area of what was once a powerful urban centre. They are distributed across the Great Plaza, next to the Usamacinta River, the Grand Acropolis and the Small Acropolis. The site has statues, stone carvings, and murals depicting prominent figures in the city’s past and hieroglyphic texts. The once prominent red colouring can still be spotted on
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some buildings but it is now mostly lost. Ascending a steep set of steps through the jungle is rewarded with ruins known as Small Acropolis where you can wander through the “rooms”. Its central plaza is in the centre of several buildings, one with an original lintel carving depicting the reign of Lord Bird Jaguar IV. A brief walk down more steps and through the jungle reveals the most impressive structure at Yaxchilan,the Grand Acropolis. With about half of its roofcomb intact, a ball-game scene carving on the entry steps and a statue of Bird Jaguar IV (the absence of a head making photos fun), this building’s preservation is superb. It overlooks more steep steps weaving down to what must have been the public area of the city, the Great Plaza.
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Nearby Bonampak has less impressive ruins, albeit still in the jungle, but it has its own wow factor. Only revealed to the western world about 1946, Bonampak was believed to be closely connected to Yaxchilan. Its claim to fame is a three-room building decked out with watercolours painted on plaster. The striking frescoes are believed to be the best preserved from the Mesoamerican era. They depict the leader’s heir, prisoners taken during a war and the prisoners’ sacrifice.
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Similar sauna-like conditions greet visitors in another jungle setting at Palenque. It was one of the most important Mayan cities in the classic period, occupied from about 100BC but flourishing between 630AD and 740AD. Photos taken when the main buildings were uncovered show the now proudly displayed ruins covered in foliage. In fact, less than 5% of all the ruins have been carved away from the jungle, with the rest left to your imagination beneath hundreds of years of growth. Among them is a mausoleum for Palenque’s most revered leader Pakal, which is known as the Temple of Inscriptions for its many hieroglyphics. The number of steps leading to his tomb matches the number of years he reigned: from age 12 in 615AD to age 80, an unusual life span in that era, in 683AD. Visitors can no longer visit the tomb on the site, but Pakal’s body, including the jade mask and jewellery entombed with him, can be seen at the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City. Our guide told us the king, and at least one other in the family, had club foot, and other ailments consistent with in-breeding. They, though, considered such conditions divine and believed incest necessary to keep the blood line going. Don’t let the horrendous humidity stop you from walking up the steps of the Temple of the Cross to get an incredible view over the site. Nearby Misol-Ha and Agua Azul are a welcome relief to the heat of the jungle, especially if you have your bathers.
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w Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city in Germany, is home to the Zeil (below right), one of the busiest shopping streets in the country.
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Zeil’s the real deal A famous shopping street comes as a complete surprise TRAVEL
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OME travel writers like to do extensive research before they embark on a trip. They like to know as many details as possible about their destination before they go. Others would rather take the capricious “let-me-see-when-I-get-there’’ approach. I fall in between. I like to know a little about where I am going, but too much could spoil it for me. So it was that I found myself enchanted to stumble across Germany’s premier shopping street in Frankfurt. The Zeil just happened to be around the corner from my hotel (I was beautifully ignorant of this) and when I casually asked the concierge if there was any decent shopping nearby, he just pointed me around the corner. He didn’t make mention of the Zeil being a wide and lovely pedestrianised street with graceful sycamore trees and wondrous shops. See? Nice surprises await the unenlightened traveller. When you stumble on something great, you feel proprietorial towards it. The Zeil was my discovery alone. It was very early spring, a Saturday afternoon. Although the day was warm, almost balmy, the thousands of people strolling the Zeil were dressed in thick padded coats, woolly scarves,
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protective boots, knitted beanies. “You have just been through a cold winter and left the house in your normal gear without realising it was going to turn out a warm spring day,” I thought to myself as I passed all the luxury shops, itching to go into Louis Vuitton but refraining for fear of upsetting myself by looking at all those gorgeous products I couldn’t afford. As is the case in most European countries, the shops were overheated, so all those people were entering the large department stores and pulling off hats, removing scarves and turning rosy with the heat. After I’d done the length of the Zeil I stumbled across a peaceful demonstration at the top end of the street where the policemen watching on quietly all looked like supermodels dressed in police uniforms. Every one of them had Hollywood looks, but that’s another story for another time. I wandered happily back down the length of the Zeil to find dozens of pop-up stands selling big fat sausages in bread rolls for two euros with unlimited lashings of mustard and sauce from giant containers nearby. Well, happiness doesn’t come any better than when you have a giant German sausage in your hand. But wait…it does. All the pop-up places were selling wine and champagne and beer from barrels and the shoppers were indulging, standing around in the street drinking, chatting, eating, as though they were at a festival.
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IF YOU GO: The Zeil, Frankfurt’s premier pedestrian promenade, ranks among Germany’s most profitable shopping streets. Find out more about Frankfurt and other German towns and highlights at germanytravel.com. “This is my kind of shopping expedition,” I said to no one in particular for I was by myself. The atmosphere was so festive, so jolly, so convivial I felt privileged to be part of it, and very happy that I’d had no idea it was there and had discovered it by chance. But listen to this. The next day, Sunday, it was as though I had dreamt the whole Zeil/German sausage/beer scenario. There is no Sunday shopping in Germany and this vibrant street that had been packed with happy shoppers and drinkers and sausage-eaters the day before, was deserted, desolate, as empty as a ghost town. I half expected tumbleweed to go blowing by. I had dragged my husband there telling him what a flamboyant street it was only to find not a soul out, all doors firmly closed, the pop-ups popped down, and the entire place eerily empty. So, Saturday is your go in Frankfurt.
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It divides us all, works for some and is loathed by others WE ASKED our mummas where they stood on smacking and what other forms of discipline work for them.
Where do you stand on smacking? SUSIE: I used to be pro-smacking. Now that my son is 10 I’ve realised it hasn’t worked. And now he is too strong and fast even if I wanted to smack him. When he gets frustrated and upset with his sister, he still resorts to hitting – probably because I have been modelling that behaviour for the past 10 years.
What are your alternatives to smacking? DEE: When time and activities permit, we try to have family meetings. We make the rules and consequences clear from the beginning. We like to fully involve the children and allow them to voice their opinion, even when it comes to the consequences.
Were you smacked as a child? GISELA: I have a vivid memory of my mum sitting with her
belt hanging over the dining room chair while we were eating dinner but I can’t recall getting smacked with it. Having three brothers, and me being the annoying little sister, I was always
Mums’ top 5... AS A parent, it can be hard to balance the good with the bad but it is vital not to forget about positive reinforcement. Here are five ways to reward a well-behaved child: Praise. Nothing works better or is more effective. Studies show humans respond better to positive reinforcement, rather than negative punishments.
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fighting with my older brothers. I think Mum would get so tired of it and would threaten to whip us if we kept arguing but I don’t remember actually getting smacked.
How do you reward your children when they are well behaved? MEL: My kids are quite well behaved in public, which is all I care about. At home I yell and scream like a banshee for them to do stuff that I’ve asked them nicely to do 16,000 times. If I do reward them, I don’t use food. They may get to purchase from the school book club ,etc.
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Has there ever been a time when you have been confronted for smacking your child by a stranger or friend, who has not agreed with your methods? KATIE: I’ve only been confronted by grandparents “that’s a
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bit much” and “they are only trying to...”. I developed my own rules for smacking: repeated defiance and dangerous behaviour. That way I’m not smacking out of anger or frustration. Hear more from our mummas on our website.
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Affection and attention. Sometimes it just takes a hug. Other times, giving them your undivided attention playing footy in the backyard or playing with their dolls is the best medicine. Children thrive off family-time and need this positive interaction.
Give them something they have earned. This might be a toy, more time on their favourite game, a friend sleepover, etc. This builds the mentality that ‘when I do something good, I get what I want’.
One-on-one time. Whether it’s a girlie day with mum, or boys’ day out fishing, some quality one-on-one time is magical for children.
Food. "I don’t want ice cream," said no child ever. Taking your child out for a treat when they have done something good is a nice way to reward them.
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What the expert says
Introducing a step-parent
Smacking a failure Educator says the punishment does more harm than good
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F WE don’t condone smacking at childcare centres and schools, why should we do it at home? That is the question posed by parenting expert, author and educator Michael Grose from Parenting Ideas. Mr Grose, who does not believe in smacking, said there was too much research to back up why smacking was harmful for children to have him convinced any other way. “There is a considerable body of knowledge that suggests learning self-regulation and impulse control are keys to responsible social behaviour in children,” he said. “Smacking works against this by encouraging avoidance of certain behaviours rather than promoting self-regulatory behaviour.
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w Don’t expect your kids to love them overnight. These things take time – let it. w Take it slow. Too much change all at once can unsettle children. w Insist on respect from the beginning.
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plans – none of these involve smacking,” he said. “They do require a great deal of parental attention, patience and energy to make them work.”
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DEANNE is our mumma from the Sunshine Coast. She’s a marathon-running fitness fanatic who describes being a mum as “really rewarding, so challenging, fun, sad, horrible and all things in between”. “You learn so much about yourself especially when you have a child hitting their teen years,” she says. “It brings back all the memories of me and what I
chance to think about their behaviour or just break a pattern of poor behaviour. 2. Parental time-out: Make sure your kids are safe then go to the bathroom for a time if you are about to lose your cool. 3. Behavioural consequences: Implement a consequence (remove from their friends if hurting them, go home if misbehaving in public) that is related to the crime, reasonable and respectful to kids. 4. Tactical ignoring: Recognise that some misbehaviour is designed to annoy you so don’t let it. 5. Pre-empt poor behaviour: Think ahead and prepare kids and yourself when you go into public spaces. And make sure the kids get attention when they are behaving well because some kids mess up just to be noticed.
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was like.” Deanne’s two children are 11 and 14. Her advice to other women riding the rollercoaster of motherhood, is to trust your own instincts. “First thing – intuition. It comes down to you and your values. “Being honest and building trust with your kids, telling them why and loving them.” Deanne said the hardest part about being a mum was finding a balance. “The biggest thing for me is the battle of taking care of myself versus time with the kids,” she says. “When you’re trying to keep fit and run half-marathons, you need to look after yourself but the kids need it as well.”
Katie is our mumma from Woodford. She’s fiery and has a “go get ’em” attitude. With two girls, 11 and 14, Katie says being a mum has been one of the hardest things she has ever done – but also the best. Katie was in a car accident when she was 16 which left her a paraplegic.
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Meltopia is our mumma from Ipswich. She is sweet and incredibly strong. She has four children, aged 6–17 years, and one step-child. She described being a mum as “awesome but bloody hard”. “It’s a constant emotional roller coaster.”
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Gisela is our Coffs Harbour mumma with two young ones, aged two and five months. She is bright and bubbly and approaches being a mum the same way she does life – with passion and positivity. “I made the decision to be a happy mum and not sweat the bad stuff.”
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“It also leads to resentment when repeatedly used.” Mr Grose said research showed smacking could also lead to a child developing depression, anxiety and substance abuse later on in life. So what are the alternatives? Mr Grose said parents needed to look further than physical punishments and disciplinary methods employed in schools and childcare centres. “Some children, whether due to an individual condition or their temperament, need individual behaviour management
THERE is no easy way to introduce a step-parent into the family and when discipline is involved, it can become trickier. How does the new parent draw the line between showing authority and not overstepping their place? Meltopia Grandelis, an Ipswich mum of four, plus a stepchild to make five, said things could become tricky when discipline and conflict were involved in her household. “If there is any conflict in the house, I will always take the kids’ side and my husband knows that. But in saying that, we’ve got to stick together on things or it won’t work,” she said.
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REMEMBER the first full year I lived in London. I called a fellow Aussie ex-pat in an uncharacteristic state of the blues. We chatted and agreed, there was no particular drama or negative current life experience on which I could pin my mood. The only thing we could both identify was that it might relate to the season. As it was the end of March, for a couple of Australians living in Europe, it meant we had endured a full European winter. With months of getting up before the sun to go to work, coupled with months of arriving back home in the dark, as Aussies, we were struggling to endure what seemed a never-ending winter. Winter in sunny Australia is vastly different to one spent in London. But what we do have in common is we spend more time in our homes in winter than we do in warmer seasons. The English, Italians and French seem to understand that their homes need refreshing regularly. And, like Europeans, the most effective way I know how to transform a space is to invest in new, colourful soft furnishings. Due to daily wear and tear, soft furnishings should be changed, or at least rotated, every year or two. An addition of new, bright bed linen, colourful cushions or fresh curtains can instantly transform a space, by adding colour. The latest research confirms our brains can release uplifting chemicals in response to colour that impacts us both a physical and emotional level. So why not spend your money on mood-enhancing, colourful soft furnishing rather than spend time on a drab couch, discussing your blues?
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Carpet cleaning hacks If you’ve got carpets, you’re going to want to read this 6. For pet accidents STAY AT HOME MUM with Jody Allen
1. Hair and crud? The lint roller rocks
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There are some instances where it doesn’t matter how hard or regularly you have run the vacuum over your carpets, some things won’t move. This might be hair, pet hair or crumbs that your vacuum isn’t picking up. Remember vacuums don’t clean the fibres effectively, particularly when those carpets are long-haired ones. The solution? A lint roller, along with some attention to detail, should sort that.
You don’t ever want gum to get on your carpets, but if you’ve got kids, it’s probably likely to happen at some point. Luckily, gum doesn’t spell the end of your lovely carpets. But you won’t be able to get it off if it’s soft. So, to harden it up, grab an ice cube and rub it gently over the gum to freeze it and make it easier to remove. Once it’s cold, you’ll be able to scrape it off with a spoon.
Pets and carpets are far from the best of friends and anyone with a pet will know how difficult it can be to remove pet hair with a vacuum cleaner. There is another solution: Get a squeegee, like you’d use to clean windows. This is most effective on short-haired carpets and the rubber blade allows you to dislodge and pull up every single hair on your floors.
If you have a general stain, there are still solutions. One favourite is a simple three-step method we’ve had quite good results with. First, vacuum around the stained area to get rid of any hard sections of the stain. Then, treat the area with a 3:1 mixture of water and vinegar, allowing it to soak into the fibres. Last, pop a towel on top of the stain and apply a nice hot iron to the area. The pressure and heat can transfer the stain off your carpet and on to the towel.
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3. For dirt
When your home is laid with lighter carpets, like yellow, white, beige or light pastels, you’ll notice dirt tends to accumulate. This is usually just from foot traffic but it can be from muddy accidents as well. Shaving cream is a great solution for these dirt stains. Rub it gently into the stain, let it sit and clean away. Along with removing dirt, shaving cream can fluff your carpets, making them look newer.
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9. Deodorise
Carpets can get smelly over time and should be treated regularly to deodorise them, especially when you have children or pets. Use baking soda to freshen them but, to give them a new lease on life, mix 1–2 tablespoons of borax with 10 drops of essential oil and 2 cups of baking soda. Spread on carpet, wait until it dries, then vacuum away.
Oil stains can be difficult to get out of carpet because they spread and stick. There is a way to extract oil which is cheap and available everywhere. Spread baking soda liberally across the area where oil stain is present and leave it until the side forms a dry crust, which can be vacuumed. The stain may still be there but will be much lighter. Repeat if required, then work on dabbing away stain with a stain remover.
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Spilling nail polish on your carpet is horrible and enough to make any home owner shiver. The solution is rubbing alcohol. Not everyone wants to risk putting rubbing alcohol on their carpets because it can damage the dye and cause bleaching however, in most cases, rubbing alcohol is not strong enough to bleach carpet. Chip off as much of the polish as you can with a butter knife, then dab with rubbing alcohol until the stain is absorbed.
If you’ve rearranged your furniture, you’ve probably noticed there are annoying and unsightly marks on the floor where furniture legs had sat. To get rid of dents, place an ice cube inside the dent and leave it to melt. Once it’s melted, blot away excess water and iron the area with a towel on top. Once the fibres are dry, fluff them by hand.
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If Fido has done the unthinkable on your carpet, baking soda will take care of the smell and the liquid to allow you to take care of the stain. As with oil stains, spread a liberal amount of baking soda over the accident site, leave it to dry and then vacuum away. If the stain remains visible, blot it away with stain remover.
Carpets in high-traffic areas tend to get sad and worn out as time goes by. You can fix this with vinegar. Dilute vinegar in a spray bottle with equal parts water and spray on high-traffic areas. Once the liquid has been absorbed, take a spoon and run it sideways along the carpet to loosen up fibres and get it back to normal.
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A FIRE PIT MAKES A GREAT CENTREPIECE I N A N Y B A C KYA R D
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was the same but they are all different. The ones we want to use are good quality fire bricks or even a cold-pressed smooth brick. This will be the base where you put the fire. Lay the bricks flat on top of the level drainage gravel. Place remaining bricks vertically around the pit on a slight diagonal (see photo). Fill in between the bricks by just pouring sand on and smooth off.
w STEP FIVE: THE ULTIMATE MORTAR
w Fire up your entertaining area.
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Keeping warm in winter DIY fire pit will lure you outdoors during the chilly months Materials: DIY
For a 1m diagonal fire pit: w Enough rock to fit around the perimeter of fire pit (about 30 blocks or sandstone if you’d prefer more a well design w 27 fire bricks w ¼ cubic metre drainage rock w 2 bags of cement w 1 bag of lime w 1 bag of fire clay w 8 bags of sand.
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HO says you have to retreat indoors during winter? A fire pit makes a great centrepiece in a backyard any time of year. You could call in the professionals or have a go yourself. I built this fire pit for a mate. Here’s how:
w STEP THREE: CHOOSING ROCK
Start by digging a hole about 600mm deep and one metre in diameter. It sounds deep but we are going to fill the bottom with 200mm of drainage rock available at your local garden centre. This will ensure a good amount of drainage so you can even have your fire pit going in the rain.
My mate and I decided on rough sandstone blocks for the surround but you can use just about anything as long as it hasn’t come out of a riverbed. (River rocks contain moisture and, when heated, they explode or crack and are going to ruin your fire pit). Position rock around the perimeter of the fit pit. We’ll mortar these in a little later.
w STEP FOUR: FIRE BRICK BASE
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Remove rocks from the surround, remembering the order you’d like them to sit. Start with a 40mm screed of your mortar mix at the base of your surround one and half sizes wider than your border. Then position each stone around the fire pit. Fill the gaps between bricks and stones with mortar. If you’re after a “well” fire pit (inset image above), spread out your blocks so you can choose the best fitting piece you need. We’ve all played Tetris and this is where those skills come in handy. For every layer, put about 30mm of mortar between and keep going as high as you need.
w Cement mixer w trowel w 2 x 10 litre bucket w shovel.
This may come easy to many but look outside the box and choose an area you can build on. You don’t want your new fire pit cramped in a corner where no one wants to be. Make it the feature of your backyard and a place where everyone can congregate as the night goes on.
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This step is messy but, if all the family has a go, it makes it fun. Hire a small cement mixer. I even saw one for sale at the hardware the other day for $120. You’re going to need to mix the following ratio: Four parts sand + one part cement + one part fire clay + one part lime. It sounds hard but realistically it’s four shovels of sand, one shovel cement, one shovel fire clay and one shovel lime and does not need to be exact. Mix with water. If you use a standard cheap bucket, put two buckets of water into the mixer first, then you can gauge how much you need as the mix progresses. Don’t pour in litres of water, use the bucket. You want a watery tooth paste consistency. For an added feature, use white cement to change the colour of the mortar.
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STATICE SYMBOL: The tough annual produces vibrant flowers which make a long-lasting display indoors.
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KEEP THEM IN THE DARK: TUBERS EXPOSED TO LIGHT WILL TURN GREEN w Native birds love dining out on grevillea flowers. PHOTO: MARJORIE WEBBER
w Spoiled for choice ... there are close to 4000 different varieties of potato.
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Putting flowers in the bank for spring
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The eyes have it It’s spud time: they’re easily grown and your own taste far better GREEN THUMB with Maree Curran
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T’S time to plant potatoes. They are easy to grow, and very productive. One kilogram of seed potatoes (spud tubers which have formed “eyes”) should yield about 10kg of spuds, so it is quite economical, and the flavour of freshly dug potatoes is far superior to those that you buy in the supermarket. They need a sunny position in fertile, slightly acidic, well-drained soil, and will be ready to harvest in three or four months. It’s a good idea to use certified virus potato-free seed potatoes to minimise the risk of disease, and to get good yields. Cut seed potatoes into pieces which each contain two or three eyes. Ideally, allow the cuts to dry for 24 hours or so before planting to reduce the risk of rotting. Plant the pieces about 30-40cm apart with the eyes facing upwards, and cover them with about 15cm of soil or compost. As the vines grow, mound soil or compost around them to keep the developing tubers covered. Your spuds will form between the seed piece and the surface of the soil, so you will get a better crop if you keep hilling the soil up around the plant as it grows. Ensure that you don’t bury the plant completely, and also that there is enough soil covering the growing potatoes so they are
not exposed to light. If they are, the tubers will turn green and should not be eaten. Keep the plants moist, but not soggy. Once the plants start to flower, you can hunt for new potatoes, which can be washed and eaten immediately. They don’t store well. When the tops of the plants die off, then it’s time to dig up the fully grown potatoes. Leave the soil on them and store in a cool, dark, dry place. If any are damaged as you dig them, eat these first as they won’t keep as well as undamaged ones. You can grow your spuds in a tower if you don’t have room in the garden, or if you have very heavy clay soil that is inclined to stay a bit wet in winter. Here in the nursery, we’ve made a tower using a piece of chicken wire about 1m tall, sitting on top of a big pot. We used a pot so we could move it around, but you could make a tower that just sits on the ground. Put some straw or sugar cane mulch and compost in the bottom, then add the seed potatoes, and cover with more compost and mulch. As the plants grow, keep adding compost and mulch until your tower is about 80-100cm tall. Beans, cabbage, tansy, nasturtium, coriander and catnip are good companions for potatoes. Keep potatoes away from tomatoes, sunflowers, pumpkins, squash and cucumbers, and don’t plant them where you have had other solanaceous crops such as tomatoes, capsicum and eggplant in the past two years. Got a gardening question? Email maree@edenatbyron.com.au
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Angie Thomas is a horticulturist from Yates
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On a Lighter Note
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Don’t play their game: it makes no census
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Why I’m really an Albanian Jedi Knight with 70 children ON A LIGHTER NOTE with Greg Bray
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OLKS, it’s probably a little hard to tell from the accompanying photo, but my real name is Greg “The Fireball’’ Choccydoodah Bray, and I’m an Albanian budgie wrangling Jedi Knight with 70 children. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I’m hopeless with untamed budgies, but that name is still the frontrunner to appear on my census form later this year. Now, earnest people have informed me that I should fill out the census form properly, because the information collected is vital for my region’s future infrastructure needs, eg. schools, hospitals, roads, internet. If you’ll excuse me a moment – baaahahahahaaaa. In my experience, government funding works like this: if your region votes in Party A’s candidate, but Party B wins the election, then trust me, your district is not going to be showered with government cash any time soon. Governments do not reward naughty voters, unless they happen to be in very, very marginal electorates. So why do we have to fill in the census if it’s not for government funding? Well, I’m glad you asked, because I think I’ve stumbled upon the answer: compliance.
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... the best way to determine just how compliant the ‘sheeple’ are is to conduct a census and see how many of them take it seriously As we have seen of late, government is not about creating inspiring, forward-thinking leadership but is a self-serving game of power and control. And the best way to determine just how compliant the “sheeple’’ are is to conduct a census and see how many of them take it seriously. Mind you, the government should take heart that most of us aren’t cynical enough to use the census forms as toilet paper. Yet. So this is your chance, outside of an election, to mirror all the respect our current leaders have been showing us. Which is why this previously unheard of tribe of Albanian, Jedi Knight, budgie wranglers will no longer be playing their silly little game.
Greg Bray blogs at www.gregbraywriter.wordpress.com. Find him on Facebook: Greg Bray – Writer.
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Overhaul your phone THE Moto Z is Motorola’s first flagship phone since Lenovo bought the phone maker from Google. The Z is one of the first major phones that can be completely overhauled using “Moto Mods”. These can be magnetically attached to the back of the phone to give the Z new components ranging from a bigger battery, a better speaker or a screen projector. The phone uses the new USB-C for charging and data transfer and as a headphone jack. That doesn’t sound like a good sign for your favourite pair of headphones – but the Moto Z does include a converter to a traditional 3.5mm headphone jack in the box.
w SMART watches haven’t taken the world by storm but that hasn’t stopped traditional watchmakers from getting on board. Nixon is the latest to add activity tracking and connectivity to their watches with the Android Wear capable Nixon Mission. Price TBA.
w The sleek look of the Moto Z.
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w EVER wished your dentist lived in your bathroom and criticised your brushing techniques? It isn’t quite there yet but Philips’ Sonicare FlexCare Platinum Connected smart toothbrush is close. The electric toothbrush connects to your phone and tells you where and how long you should be brushing. Australian price TBA.
w VIRTUAL reality headsets are popping up everywhere. Like Google Cardboard and Samsung’s offerings, the new Kaiser Baas VR-X uses your phone as the computing power and screen. VR apps including videos and games can be accessed from the phone’s store. Price $50.
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FAMILIAR WATERS: Dory is not just searching for a physical reunion but also a spiritual and emotional one to rediscover her roots.
Finding Dory w Stars: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Idris Elba. w Directors: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane. w Rating: G w Reviewer’s last word: Dory’s life story and perpetual optimism buoy this new adventure, which swaps the open ocean for a new environment.
Star profile: Ellen DeGeneres
w Forgetful blue tang Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) encounters a cantankerous octopus named Hank (Ed O'Neill) in the movie Finding Dory. PHOTO: PIXAR
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Get lost with Dory The long-awaited Finding Nemo sequel lives up to expectations SCREEN LIFE
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IKE many people, Finding Nemo holds a special place in my heart. I was studying marine biology at university when it came out, and I loved how the filmmakers brought the Great Barrier Reef and its inhabitants to life. It’s amazing to think a new generation has been born since Finding Nemo was on the big screen. The film’s success is a doubled-edged sword for its long-awaited sequel, Finding Dory. Friendly and forgetful blue tang Dory, Marlin’s memorable sidekick in Finding Nemo, graduates to leading lady status. Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) has been happily living on the reef with clownfish Marlin and Nemo for a year when memories from her childhood come flooding back to her. Realising she has a family, Dory sets out to find them with her infectious optimism, can-do attitude and a sceptical Marlin and enthusiastic Nemo in tow.
Before seeing Finding Dory I feared it would be crushed by the weight of expectation from Finding Nemo and Pixar fans. But it’s us as cinema-goers who need to keep those expectations in check. If you do, then you’ll discover a charming story with plenty of pathos. This sequel doesn’t have the same sense of wonder as Finding Nemo, but how could it? If Pixar simply tried to replicate Finding Nemo then Finding Dory would have felt like a carbon copy. Instead the central premise of “finding” someone is interpreted in a new and different way through Dory, who has lived much of her life unwittingly separated from her family. She’s not just searching for a physical reunion but also a spiritual and emotional one to rediscover her roots. Instead of another open ocean adventure, Dory’s search leads her and her clownfish friends to a marine institute which cares for sick and injured marine animals. Here she meets the most exciting new addition to the Finding Nemo/Dory family: Hank the Octopus. A cantankerous cephalopod who has lost one of his tentacles, Hank wants nothing more than to live out the rest of his life in the quiet confines of captivity.
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But he gets swept up in Dory’s search for her parents and his ability to travel over land provides some great slapstick humour. Other new characters include Destiny the near-sighted whale shark and Bailey the overly dramatic Beluga whale. During the adventure we also learn the origins of Dory’s ability to speak “whale” and her catch phrase “just keep swimming”. I found myself getting anxious during flashback scenes where a young Dory is shown not knowing where she is and unable to remember who or what she is looking for. Perhaps it was the protective side of me coming out at the thought of a lost child, or simply me imagining myself in such a disorienting and distressing scenario. I think those scenes will strike a chord with adults and especially those who have or work with children with disabilities or learning difficulties. Those fears are also driven home in more flashbacks to Dory’s parents Jenny and Charlie, who do their best to arm their daughter with the skills she’ll need to navigate the world. The animation is still beautiful, but 13 years on cinema-goers have now become accustomed to and expect dazzling, life-like visuals. The magic of Finding Dory instead lies in the film’s central lessons about persistence, teamwork, family and trust. Go ahead and get lost with Dory. She might not always know where she’s going but she has a lot of fun along the way. Finding Dory is in cinemas now.
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EDITOR’S PICK: The Course of Love is the story of modern relationships and how to survive them.
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The Course of Love
REVIEW with Deborah Cook
By Alain De Botton: How did you meet? The answer comes easily – it’s a happy story. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. The Course of Love is a delightful return to the novel by Alain de Botton, 20 years after his debut Essays in Love. Penguin UK: $32.99.
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No Fixed Address by Robyn Davidson
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Knowing that she had to follow her heart or forever live to regret it, Marie set out to find the family that she had lost, leaving her strict white Catholic parents aghast – why dig up the past? Vintage Books: $34.99.
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By Julie Leigh: At 38, Julia Leigh made her first visit to the IVF clinic, full of hope. So started a long and costly undertaking of nightly injections, blood tests, surgeries and rituals. Writing in the aftermath of her decision to stop treatment, Leigh lays bare her experience. Penguin: $24.99.
The Last Mile by David Baldacci (Amos Decker #2), Published by Pan Macmillan Australia, RRP $29.99.
THIS slender book of 52 pages presents an essay by Australian author Robyn Davidson, who writes of the nomadic life in first person. Her evocative images sow a seed that expresses the richness of a classical lifestyle that is nearly extinguished, at the same time that our worldwide physical and mental travels increase. The book is part of the “short black’’ series focusing on “gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the mind.” The essay is scholarly and descriptive, and it does the same to the heart as it does to the mind.
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AVID Baldacci’s 2015 Memory Man introduced Amos Decker – a former cop who hit rock bottom after the murder of his family. New evidence on that case lured him off the streets and back into civilisation. An old football injury left Decker with hyperthymesia, which means he has perfect recall. He cannot forget anything. Ever. Decker’s an eccentric character and unlikely hero. His “abilities”, the death of his family and time living on the street mean he struggles to connect to others. Baldacci tones his behaviour down a little this time around however, so he doesn’t entirely alienate everyone around him. Of course Decker’s autobiographical memory is a handy tool when fighting crime and he’s been co-opted on to an FBI team investigating cold cases. His new boss has a long list, but Decker convinces his colleagues to look into a confession which has death row inmate Melvin Mars spared just hours before his execution. Decker encountered the talented Mars on the football field two decades before and finds himself drawn to the cold case that ended Mars’ dreams of football stardom – the murder of Mars’ own parents. Although he’s protested his innocence since his arrest, Mars has failed to successfully appeal his conviction. Until now. Decker believes in Mars and doesn’t need to do much digging before discovering the former football star’s parents may have had a good reason for shunning their son’s limelight and remaining hidden from prying eyes. We probably didn’t see Decker’s skills used quite as much this time around and The Last Mile fell a little short of the very impressive Memory Man, but it’s an enjoyable ride and introduces some interesting new characters. It’ll also be interesting to see where Baldacci next takes Amos Decker and his colleagues.
45 Years
KATE Mercer is planning to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the event a letter arrives for her husband, containing news that the body of his first love has been discovered, frozen in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. Starring Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay.
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TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Quiz compiled by Roy O’Reilly.
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Quiz 1. Does the Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn pass through Australia? 2. The alligator pear is commonly known as which fruit (a) avocado (b) nectarine (c) papaw? 3. In 1993, which company became the first to produce GSM handsets capable of person-to-person texting (a) Casio (b) Nokia (c) Samsung? 4. Australia has won how many gold medals at the Winter Olympics (a) one (b) three (c) five? 5. What is Donald Trump’s wife’s name? 6. Deep Lead is in which Australian state/territory? 7. “A super dope homeboy from the Oaktown and I’m known as such,” are lyrics from which song? 8. The letters ADHD, the condition with which a person experiences hyperactivity and age-inappropriate impulsiveness, stand for what? 9. Who won the 2016 Australian Open men’s tennis singles? 10. Who was the most recent Australian prime minister born outside Australia? 11. Which team won the 2016 Indigenous All Stars-World All Stars rugby league match? 12. Is the hyoid bone in the hand or throat? 13. From 1997 to 2004, Barack Obama served as a state senator in (a) Idaho (b) Illinois (c) Iowa? 14. The Royal Australian Air Force was formed in (a) 1921 (b) 1931 (c) 1941? 15. In 1964, Australia’s Bernard “Midget” Farrelly became the winner of the inaugural world championship in (a) darts (b) paragliding (c) surfing? 16. In which recent movie did Josh Brolin play Eddie Mannix, a Hollywood “fixer” whose job is to keep the scandalous behaviour of stars out of the press? 17. Which Englishman has received an Oscar, four Grammy Awards, seven Tony Awards and a knighthood? 18. Dying recently at the age of 89 was which US author, noted for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird? 19. Name the only Australian to win an Olympic weightlifting gold medal. 20. What is the nickname of Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman? 21. Name the four current Barbie doll body shapes. 22. What is the Chinese term meaning “wind-water” which refers to the philosophical system of harmonising people and the surrounding environment? 23. During the 2015 US Open, which Australian golf star collapsed on the course when he suffered a bout of benign positional vertigo? 24. Beginning with “l” which chemical is used by forensic investigators to detect blood at crime scenes? 25. While imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1603 to 1616, who wrote the first volume of The Historie of the World, about ancient Greece and Rome?
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HE mind, like a parachute, functions best when fully open. Our brain is a filter that deletes, distorts and generalises the mass of data we are constantly bombarded with from both our external and internal environments. It is said that there are about a quarter of a million bits of information clamouring for our attention at any one time and that that is distilled down to seven (plus or minus two) bits of data from which we make sense of our world. As a sense-making machine the brain does this instantly and constantly, seeking familiar patterns to fit what we see into the beliefs that we have created and giving us the comfort that those beliefs are right. As our language developed our personal world view developed, as our world view developed our ability to explain it developed, and as our language develops to explain it we become locked on to our confirmed beliefs because we have constantly reinforced them. This places limitations on how we explain our experiences, and how they affect us, to others. You can understand that we live in a world of strong personal bias and that we see what we expect to see – in fact, we see what we want to see. You’ll then acknowledge the incredible
challenge we have when effectively communicating with other people. For most of the time it is done with little effort or concentration because we are certain that what we are saying, seeing, experiencing is understood in the same way by others – until we are challenged. The challenge creates uncertainty, which creates confusion and an initial threat response or away response in the brain. The fascinating thing about our brain is that it craves certainty and yet only in uncertainty can we have an open mind allowing the mental flexibility and opportunity to engage with alternative ideas. How do we manage this dilemma? The answer is as simple as it is challenging and that is to focus on being fully present in the moment we actually exist in. Stop projecting out and creating anxiety about a desired future – that way leads to depression. Be here now. It’s a great place to be and it’s the only place we are certain we exist in. Nick Bennett is a facilitator, performance coach and partner of Minds Aligned: www.mindsaligned.com.au.
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