Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue #25.3 June/July 2022 i Australian Country

As this issue goes to press, vast areas of the eastern seaboard from the greater Sydney region to south-east Queensland are reeling from yet another devastating climate event. Our hearts go out to all the people who have lost family or friends, homes and livelihoods in the floods. If you would like to support the many victims, please consider donating to any of the aid organisations that have been helping out in the affected regions. They include the Red Cross, St Vincent de Paul Society, Blaze Aid, the Rural Fire Service and the State Emergency Service in both Queensland and NSW. It will take years for people to rebuild their lives, so it’s never too late to add your donation to the cause. We’ve once again travelled the country from…

Jane Doole says she planned her ideal home decades before anyone talked about the Hamptons aesthetic. On one of her first trips to the United States as a 20-something, she spotted the white clapboard houses of America’s eastern seaboard and decided instantly that one day she would live in such a house. These days, she’s living that dream with her husband, Norman, on a rural property near Willunga on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula. It’s smack bang in the heart of a region famed for its almond orchards, McLaren Vale wineries and stunning coastal scenery. Willunga itself is a historic town dating back to the 1840s and it’s a popular day trip from Adelaide, particularly on Saturdays when it hosts a well-patronised farmers’ market. And no one could be more surprised…

You can live in the most beautiful mansion in the country, but that doesn’t make it a home. That’s the candid opinion of Kay Perry, matriarch, motivator and chief marionettist of the dynamic team behind the Olive Hills Estate wine label, a string of Valentine’s Artisan Sourdough Bakehouses and a smattering of hospitality ventures in Victoria’s north-east. “It’s family that makes a house a home,” Kay says. “Our motto is family comes first and before any decision is made, the question has to be asked: How will it affect the family?” Kay and her husband, Ross, do in fact live in a mansion. The imposing 1886 edifice stands sentinel on a rise beside the road into Rutherglen. It has been their home since 1997, when the Perrys moved in with…

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ANABEL DEAN, JOURNALIST Anabel is an award-winning travel journalist who began her career as a Fleet Street news reporter in London. She has worked as a feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, arts editor for The Bulletin and lifestyle editor for Medical Observer magazine. She contributes to national and international publications sharing adventures of people, places, art, nature and food from around the world. ANASTASIA KARIOFYLLIDIS Anastasia is a lifestyle photographer who has been capturing an array of images from interiors to still life, architecture, gardens, landscapes, food and travel for many years. She is based on the Sunshine Coast and recently photographed Renee and Daniel Berry at their hinterland home at Kenilworth (see page 24). australiancountry.com.au facebook.com/AustralianCountry @australiancountrymag zinio.com pinterest.com/auscountrymag…

Renee Berry says the moment she reconnected with her old school buddy Daniel, she knew he was a keeper. “I greeted him by placing a snake around his neck,” she recalls. “When he didn’t run a mile, I knew that my primary-school crush was meant to be in my life.” Renee and Daniel went to primary school together in Brisbane’s northern suburbs, but they went their separate ways as Dan pursued a career working on Mediterranean superyachts and Renee worked as a wildlife show presenter at schools. “I was trying to get into TV presenting and had an opportunity on a reality TV show catching saltwater crocodiles,” Renee explains. “I contacted all my social media friends and asked them to vote for me. Dan very kindly obliged and we messaged…

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As a child, Charlie Alliott says he was “that weird five-year-old” who saved his pocket money to buy a silver Georgian teaspoon at the village fete. “I’ve always loved beautiful things,” the antiques dealer says. “They say no one sets out to have a career in antiques, though I believe I was destined to.” Charlie and his wife, former diplomat and now chair of The Fred Hollows Foundation, Jane Madden, live in Canberra, where Charlie owns Fox Antiques and Jane works as a strategist and advisor to businesses, government and not-for-profits. Jane’s parents had a beach house on the NSW south coast and they were visiting when they heard that Rosebank at Turlinjah was on the market. “There’re aren’t many historic houses in the area,” Charlie says. “We weren’t even…

Dr Lindy Hume, AM, is tussling with a tribe of disorderly magpies. The plump-breasted birds are swaggering about like divas on a sunlit stage above the magnificent Bega River and they will not be silenced. “Can you go away?” Lindy is pleading. “Be quiet. Stop it. You’re just too demanding. Oh, please, go away …” As one of Australia’s leading artistic directors, acknowledged internationally for her fresh interpretations of a wide variety of repertoires, Lindy is always open to hearing an original score. The cawing cacophony swells unchecked, pushes aside attempts at conversation, and she relents. Concedes defeat. This is the sound of home. It’s the sound of Tathra on the far south coast of New South Wales. Home is a nice place to be when so much of life…

THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD ANNABEL ABBS, SIMON & SCHUSTER, $32.99 London-based historic fiction author Annabel Abbs turns her attention to the pioneering cookery book writer, Eliza Acton and the handful of facts that are known about Miss Acton and her assistant, Ann Kirby. Miss Acton was an aspiring poet, but when she took her manuscript to publisher Thomas Longman, she was advised to produce a work more appropriate for a lady, in other words a cookbook. Ignoring the mere detail that Miss Acton was not much of a cook, she and Ann collaborated to create Modern Cookery for Private Families, which was published in 1845. It became a bestseller and this has inspired Annabel to turn the story into a work of fiction. For those curious to see what the…