I’m off a’picnicking this weekend but my basket is empty. What to take?

Today is hot, dry and windy – perfect bushfire weather. Have you thought about your bushfire preparedness this season?

There was a police chase through Ballarat’s back streets a couple of days ago. Guess who got tangled up in the middle of it? Not once, not twice, but THREE times! My verdict: stressful, but satisfying.

With the weather heating up I’ve been experimenting a bit with salads. Last month I made a momentous decision: ditch the lettuce!

November’s drawing closer, which for me means one big, huge, significant thing: it’s time to start WRITING! Have you ever thought you had a book inside you, just waiting to be unleashed? NaNoWriMo might be just the thing you need.

Slow roasting is, in theory, the easiest way to ensure a lump of meat comes out of the oven tender and flavourful. So why do I keep messing it up?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a human being in possession of a sound intellect, must be in want of the perfect chocolate biscuit recipe.

Spring has sprung, right on cue. My glee, let me show you it!

A giant yellow price tag saying FREE ART has appeared tied around a statue of poet Robert Burns in Ballarat’s main street. Why? To celebrate the arrival of free admittance to Art Gallery of Ballarat. So: should art be free?

Six web sites you might not have heard of—yet! For readers, for writers, for knitters, for creators, for shoppers and for cataloguers. And also for the mildly curious.