Christmas 2022

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Escape the everyday

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In This Issue...
Emily has been working in media for more than 12 years as a journalist and presenter across Wales, France, Botswana and New Zealand. Turn to page 78 for Emily’s story on The Little Big Dairy Co. Growing up with a professional polo player for a fathe
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Editor Kylie ImesonCreative director Sarah FaragoDeputy editor Hannah JamesQueensland contributing editor Claire MactaggartArt director Bernhard SchmitzJunior designer Saffron SylvesterStylist Kate LincolnCopy editors Greta Dumbleton, Sue Ramsey, Dar
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House To Home
Crafted in Australia from Victorian ash timber, this Kalbarri dining table from Domayne extends to seat up to 14 people – perfect to host a festive feast. Visit domayne.com.au Self-taught artist Jenny Wright, of Blue Feather Art, lives and works on
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Your Page
As I took up my millet broom just now to sweep the front verandah, its name, The Woolshed, took me back to my childhood and shearing time on my parents’ farm out Boree Creek way. I love this broom for the memories it brings flooding back, but also be
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A Timely Reminder
WE WERE ABOUT 150 KILOMETRES NORTH of Port Augusta when it dawned on The Farmer and me that the air conditioning in our ute was not working. We’d left a rain-smudged Tasmania and crossed Bass Strait. We’d wandered through the cold green of Victoria a
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Festive Touches
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Home Grown
THERE’S A STRONG ARTISTIC streak running through Emma Klau’s family. “My nanna was a fine china painter and my father was a ladies’ shoe designer,” says Adelaide-based Emma, 38. But perhaps the most important factor in her own artistic occupation is
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The More The MERRIER
’Tis the season to make it special, so feast your eyes on our festive menu with top drops to match Ideal for entertaining, the Vintec Single Zone Wine Cabinet with 35-bottle capacity keeps wine at the optimal temperature for storage or drinking. An
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Welcome Letter
Things get a bit silly at Christmas time in my family. When I say family, I mainly mean my mother and me. Around this time of year, we are referred to as ‘Senior Elf’ and ‘Junior Elf’ respectively. We talk on the phone most days about gifts we’re buy
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Brush Strokes
BECOMING AN ARTIST was never on Jillian Kelly’s radar while she was growing up in the town of Coonamble, in western New South Wales. “Because I wanted to be a vet, I always studied science subjects at school and never really had any artistic calling,
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Full Of Cheer
AT SUNRISE ON Christmas morning, as the bush comes alive with a cacophony of birdsong announcing the dawn, two wallaroos will hop a familiar route towards a farmhouse in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales. At the kitchen door, six-year-old Ti
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Santa’s On The Way
LIFE HAS A FUNNY WAY of shaking us up, only to settle us down exactly where we need to be. For Hayley Millner (nee Orbell) that meant leaving Dubbo, in the Central West of New South Wales, to study and follow a creative career path. The journey took
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Dairy Queens
WHILE MANY AUSTRALIANS stumble bleary-eyed to the tinsel-clad tree, cuppa in hand, come Christmas morning, farming families pull on their boots and head outside at sunrise. Farm work doesn’t stop for Santa Claus, and for the Chesworth family, milking
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Wintry Delight
IN 2017, CITY DWELLERS LOANA AND MALTE decided to move to the remote natural wonderland of Buntenbock, in Germany’s Harz Mountains. There, they bought an artist’s home and set about renovating it themselves. The couple, who live with their dogs Wilma
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Night Before Christmas
STYLING ASSISTANTS KATIE TURNER, REBECCA WALDRON, ANA FREITAS, PAVARNE LAMBERT, MISCHA HUNTER ■
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The Tradition Continues
Makes 25-30 iced biscuits It doesn’t feel like Christmas to me until a batch or two of gingerbread has been made – one to fill the tin at home, and one to give as gifts. My kids are always keen to help decorate them – although this brings out my inn
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Flavours
Order a Christmas ham from one of these superb regional suppliers… POACHERS PANTRY With its own smokehouse, this farm shop, restaurant and vineyard on the NSW/ACT border regularly wins medals for its tasty smoked goods. Visit poacherspantry.com.au A
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Good Catch
CONFESSION TIME: I used to fear eating fish as a child. More specifically, eating whole fish. I was sure that one or several of the fine bones would lodge sideways in my throat and send me into a convulsing, hoarse cough as I turned red, then blue. H
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Season Of Giving
Inside a charming building on Crookwell’s main street is Ensemble & Co, a collective of more than 20 local businesses all under the one – rather incredible – roof. With its timber-lined, cathedral-style ceiling, the building was originally a farmers’
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Sweet Like Chocolate
“I’M SURE EVERYONE’S family has their own rum ball recipe, and their own special tricks – soaking the sultanas for a week in rum, anyone?” says Jasmin Midgley, of New Farm, Queensland. “But what makes this recipe so special to my family is that it’s
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Farm Stay
A FORMER WORKER’S RESIDENCE built in 1912, Coquun Cottage has been skilfully and sensitively renovated by owner Annie Bell, who also recruited the professional skills of her interior-decorator daughter Louy. In the language of the local Wonnarua peop
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The Style Liveries
NURSE AND AIRBNB HOST, 57; AND INTERIOR DECORATOR, 27 Annie lives at Belford Park, a cattle property east of Scone, NSW, with her husband, Richard, and Jack Russells Scout, Willow and Freddie (sons Archie, 29, and Hamish, 24, have flown the nest).
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Book Club
Laurie Cluitmans, Valiz, $53.75 Most of what gardeners want to know can be found on YouTube, so picking the ideal book to give for Christmas becomes a case of looking for something out of the ordinary. Cluitmans is a curator at the Centraal Museum i
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Field Guide
With natural fibres and timeless styling, enjoy Ella & Sunday’s beautiful garments, such as the Otis Maxi Denim Dress, every day. ellaandsunday.com.au Ideal for use in the kitchen or garden, Ceres Homestead’s hemp and organic cotton canvas Long Apron
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Message In A Gift
ON THE FIRST DAY OF Christmas, my true love sent to me… a partridge in a pear tree. Now, hang on a minute. The partridge is a ground-dwelling, nesting bird. Its diet comprises seeds and insects. It is unlikely to be found in a pear tree and is certai

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