Category: Signs of Life

Signs of Life, Vic2 Comments

A Delicious Drop

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Rutherglen in Victoria’s north east is Australia’s oldest wine growing region. They’ve been growing wine since the late 1850’s. The climate can best be described as warm and dry and that warmth can be tasted in the lusciousness of its dessert wines. Continue reading A Delicious Drop

SA, Signs of Life5 Comments

The Big Galah

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In Australia we have a strange passion for building large objects beside highways that we tend to refer to as ‘Big Things’. The Big Banana at Coffs Harbour, that seems to get smaller as I get older. The Big Prawn in Exmouth. The Big Lobster in Kingston and so on. I think you get my drift now. This fellow is the Big Galah at Kimba in South Australia. He’s been guarding the highway for a long time and that pink paint is fading but we still can’t help but say “Ooh, there’s The Big Galah!” Continue reading The Big Galah

Qld, Signs of Life5 Comments

A Special Deal

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Now here’s a sign that only Australian readers will understand, so I apologise to my international readers. To try and explain this play on words is difficult but here goes….Our local meal of choice in country pubs is an Aussie corruption of a classic Italian Parmagiana, however we use chicken instead of veal these days. Clive Palmer is a mining magnate turned politician in the style of Donald Trump. Continue reading A Special Deal