October 2021

Country Style

Escape the everyday

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Editor’s Letter
Never has it been more important to take time for yourself and turn everyday, often mundane occurrences into special moments. It’s why we shot this cover: “away from it all”. With NSW, the ACT, Victoria and our friends in New Zealand in lockdown as
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In This Issue...
The photographer and interior designer is a new resident of Wanaka, New Zealand, and shot Wanaka Haven on page 108. After 10 years living in the NSW Southern Highlands, Nicki, 41, loves her new home of Wanaka: “We’re excited to be starting life in
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Editor KYLIE IMESON Creative director SARAH FARAGO Deputy editor HANNAH JAMES Queensland contributing editor CLAIRE MACTAGGART Subeditors GRETA DUMBLETON, SUE RAMSEY Senior designer LINDA ALAM Editorial coordinator ANNIKA BAKER (02) 9282 8456
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Your Page
My Country Style always arrives on a day I need it most – it reminds me to sit in peace, drink a hot cup of tea and devour all the delights the magazine has to offer. As an avid op-shopper, I’m always prowling the pages for cost-effective ways to use
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Congratulations
All our wonderful letter writers receive a three-piece Laguiole Cheese Set in Black, valued at $89. Share your thoughts and experiences with us by writing to Country Style, GPO Box 4088, Sydney, NSW, 2001, or emailing austcountrystyle@ aremedia.com
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October
Yankalilla Show, Oct 2 Head to the Fleurieu Peninsula over the long weekend to visit a classic country town show. And they’ve got it down pat in Yankalilla, because they’ve been running it for 139 years. Enjoy shearing demonstrations, showjumping, ma
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Get Crafty
Running weekly meetings since 1986, the Dalmeny Quilters group also puts on a biannual exhibition. This year, there are more than 100 quilts on show at Narooma Sports and Leisure Centre. Plus, enter the raffle to win a quilt. A portion of the proceed
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Weekend Away
Set amid the coffee trees of the award-winning Wirui Estate, Origin House is an architecturally designed home away from home, with walls of glass opening to spectacular views of the Tweed hinterland in NSW. The perfect base for a weekend of indulgenc
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A True Gift
THIS YEAR, THE YEAR OF THE EMPTY NEST, I find myself collecting the messages my son sends as if they were precious shells washed up on the beach. He’s working in Far North Queensland on a cattle station where the mobile reception is sparse, the inter
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Homegrown
PIONEER TREE-CHANGERS Zeta and Marc Grealy had never imagined growing coffee in the NSW Tweed hinterland – until they did. In 1993, Qantas pilot Marc bought 22 hectares overlooking green velvet that segues to Gold Coast blue. But farming wasn’t in th
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Spotlight On The Bush
GEORGIE ROBERTSON WAS WELL VERSED in the art of storytelling before she launched her business, The Regional PR Co., in 2017, then turned her hand to the Buy From The Bush (BFTB) campaign. She helped founder Grace Brennan’s great idea transcend from a
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There’s A Hole In My Jeans, Dear Liza
THE DAY STARTED LIKE ANY OTHER mustering day. My alarm went off at 3am. I need about an hour before brekkie to have a coffee, pack my lunch and process life before people start talking to me. At 4am, the head stockwoman gave a briefing to the crew an
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My Country Childhood
THE ABC WAS HELD in Very high regard in the Millar household when Lisa Millar was growing up. “Our life was dictated by the ABC radio on the wireless in the kitchen in the mornings, then the 7pm ABC news in the evening. Dad would tap the side of his
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Natural Instinct
ON ANY GIVEN MORNING you’ll find Pam Brook and her husband, Martin, walking through the rainforest on their macadamia farm, enjoying the cool green foliage, the tinkling creek and the bird calls. “It’s a really peaceful place and it gives a great sen
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Creating Space
IF YOU WANT SOMETHING DONE, as the old saying goes, ask a busy person. And who’s more busy than a country woman? When the women of Kimba, on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, saw empty shops and departing families on the streets of their little
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Living The Dream
FOUR YEARS AGO, Brendon Murray asked his wife, Victoria, to consider a move from Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast when an opportunity arose to continue his role as senior partner in an accountancy firm at their coastal office. “Life was very good in Br
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About The House:
• The interior is painted in Dulux China White, with Dulux Natural White trim. The exterior is Dulux Lexicon and Dulux Domino trim. • Some of Victoria’s favourite local places to shop include: Blue Brown Bag at Cooroy, @bluebrownbag; Antiques and Vin
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Imported Goods
AFTER 160 YEARS OF HONEST WORK storing grain and housing hogs in Indiana, USA, this old timber barn was destined for the scrap heap. But it scored a second chance at life when Australian builder Terry Harris picked it for a long-held passion project.
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Heart To Heart
IT’S ONE OF THOSE CHERISHED TIMES when all the Burnham family members are home together at Bonnie Doone, an 8000-hectare, organic beef property north-west of Monto in Queensland. Eldest daughter Lily, 19, on a break from university in Armidale, helps
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A World Away
SILVER THREADS still float through the air and thick dewdrops hang in the grass. But the first stormy days aren’t far off. The anemones stretch their flowers towards this gentle warmth, knowing their delicate white, pink and purple shells will soon h
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Bright Bulbs And Buttons
OH OCTOBER, YOU BEAUTIFUL THING. , soil is warm and the flowers are everywhere. Back in autumn, we planted lots of new additions. Down in the flower garden we’re trialling foxglove and ranunculus, dahlias and feverfew, poppies and sweet peas. But it’
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Country Kitchens
A soft, silvery, eucalyptus-green kitchen brings a serene feel to the busiest room in the house. Once a drab council office dating back to the 1960s, Moonliters is now a calming retreat for travellers on the Great Ocean Road – with a kitchen fit for
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It's The Simple Things
Serves tablespoons -virgin¼ cup (50g) buckwheat400g can butter beans, drained, rinsed1 bunch broccolini (175g)120g small kale leaves1 small corella pear (100g)425g can tuna in springwater, drained,flaked⅓ cup (25g) shaved parmesan ¼ cup (60ml) lemo
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Sweets From Scratch
HOMEMADE IS MICHELINA NATALE’S cooking watchword. Born in 1933 in a town called Piscopio, in the southern Italian region of Calabria, she emigrated to Australia in 1962, explains her granddaughter, Country Style’s senior designer Linda Alam. Calabria
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Outdoor Pursuits
LIKE MANY WHO CALL WANAKA HOME, Taeko and Shigeaki Saka were once frequent holidaymakers to the New Zealand resort town. The couple even spent their honeymoon at the luxurious Millbrook Resort, near Queenstown, 20 years ago. Unlike many of their fell
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Mountain High
When flying into Queenstown, be sure to bag a window seat. As the first of many breathtaking views the South Island will lay out before your dazzled eyes, it’s a flight into the heart of what makes New Zealand so magical: snow-peaked mountains, azure
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Jess James Morgan
“Coolamon is an amazing place to raise a family – the community is really supportive.” ■
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My Town Coolamon Stay And Learn About The Heritage, Community And Enterprise Of This Riverina Town In Nsw.
MEDIAN HOUSE PRICE $275,000 MEDIAN RENTAL PRICE $325 per week BY THE NUMBERS “The current market range is $250,000 to $550,000. Small acreage properties (two to eight hectares) generally sell between $500,000 and $750,000,” says Errol Sutherland,
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Away From It All
ARRIVING AT SINCLAIRS OF BERRY on a chilly evening with the fire blazing, candles lit, a cake on the kitchen bench and owner Caroline Sinclair there to greet you, it’s hard to imagine a better start to a long weekend at a holiday house – and it insta
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The Style Diary
“MY DAD, A PASSIONATE FARMER for more than 40 years, has always said, ‘Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life,’” says Arabella Armstrong, who co-founded fashion store Texas Jane in Wagga Wagga, NSW, in 2019. “And I love every aspe
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Book Club
Of the 1000-plus books that have landed on my desk since the debut of this feature, not one has been as astonishing as this one. Brooks is Scientia Professor of Evolution at UNSW Sydney, where he founded and directs the Evolution and Ecology Research
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At The Museum
THE BRILLIANT COLOURS of Australian birds, especially parrots, excited the first European explorers and settlers. Many taxidermied specimens were sent back to ornithologists and collectors in Europe. However, the fashion for crafts that occurred in t
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Collectables
HAVING RECENTLY acquired this piece, I would love to know more about it. My cousin gave it to me – she had been using it as a container for sweets. It belonged to our grandmother, Amy, who died in her 60s in the early 1940s. It’s 11cm high and 37cm i
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Field Guide
It’s the perfect time to dine outdoors with the stylish St Germain 135cm round dining table and Charter dining chairs. Visit harveynorman.com.au Made from natural fibres, Ella & Sunday’s beautiful clothing is ideal for spring, like the Myra Maxi Ind
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Aisle Be Right Back, Dear…
“THAT WOULD BE ABOUT AS likely as seeing stilettos at Bunnings,” said the local footwear fashion observer and bobcat operator. A droll throwaway line, but he made a point. When you live remotely, shopping habits are a bit of a social indicator. When

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