Bearing up: when holding on to loved ones can help ease the grief
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »IT LOOKS like a teddy bear. Fluffy, cuddly. There's a zip in its tummy where you insert a small pouch containing the ashes of someone you still long to hold in your arms. It's a Huggable Urn.A family in Western ...
Mackenzie A&P Show results
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Judge: Sally Smith - Ashburton Reserve Champion Fine Combing: Hope Bros -Grampians Station Champion Fine Combing: Hope Bros -Grampians Station Champion Fine Combing: Hope Bros -Grampians Station Champion Fine Combing: Grays Hills Supreme Champion Wool Breed: Grays Hills Class 1 Ram, 2-shear and over: 1 Grays ...
In the footsteps of Kate
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »In the 1990s, the Riccarton garden of Julia Burbury seemed to epitomise its era. Its roses, verandas dripping with wisteria and brick-walled swimming pool appeared in countless magazine and newspaper articles. The garden was eulogised in the television series Maggies Garden ...
Cummings shows practice makes perfect
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Improving Sydney galloper Turffontein showed the benefit of a sighter when he made his second visit to Caulfield in a fortnight a winning one in the listed Wellington Club Racing Stakes over 1400 metres yesterday. The $6 chance, trained by Anthony Cummings and ridden ...
Out in the fields
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »John Huxley explores 'Kangaroo Valley' on the Western Front, among the war sites and tranquillity of the Somme. Adrizzly mist hangs heavily over the muddied fields that seem to stretch forever across the flat landscape of northern France. Weekend shooters pursuing partridge flit in and ...
Mongolian lambs? Not this mob. If Genghis Khan, so can they
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »ONE HAS broken a wrist, another fell so heavily he split his helmet. Yet another was recently treated in hospital for fractured ribs. And the rest? Bruises, cuts and enough muscle soreness to know that this is serious training. This eclectic confederation of amateur ...
The frame game
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »CHANNEL Nine has been flogging the stuff for years. In the Sydney Test, it was Andrew Symonds%26#146; turn. A"beautifully presented, personally signed" photo of Symonds, on bent knee after a belted drive, and underneath an actual swatch of willow from a bat used ...
The frame game
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »CHANNEL Nine has been flogging the stuff for years. In the Sydney Test, it was Andrew Symonds%26#146; turn. A"beautifully presented, personally signed" photo of Symonds, on bent knee after a belted drive, and underneath an actual swatch of willow from a bat used ...
Out in the fields
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »John Huxley explores 'Kangaroo Valley' on the Western Front, among the war sites and tranquillity of the Somme. Adrizzly mist hangs heavily over the muddied fields that seem to stretch forever across the flat landscape of northern France. Weekend shooters pursuing partridge flit in and ...
Mongolian lambs? Not this mob. If Genghis Khan, so can they
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »ONE HAS broken a wrist, another fell so heavily he split his helmet. Yet another was recently treated in hospital for fractured ribs. And the rest? Bruises, cuts and enough muscle soreness to know that this is serious training. This eclectic confederation of amateur ...