"Fleurieu Living Magazine features the best in food and wine, homes and gardens, growers, producers, accommodation and destinations — as well as artists,writers and designers working and living on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Published quarterly, Fleurieu Living Magazine is available throughout Adelaide and the Fleurieu via newsagents, wineries, restaurants cafés and B&Bs."
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Fleurieu Living Magazine
Esther Thorn
Make a date with nature
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Rustic industrial charm • The township of Strathalbyn is well recognised for its historical significance. Beautiful stonework on grand facades shielded by generously proportioned return bullnose verandahs define many of the early homes dotted throughout the town. Owing to strict heritage guidelines these historic buildings, both residential and commercial, have been proudly preserved.
The cult of busy-ness • Families come in all shapes and sizes, all with their unique challenges. There’s single-parent households and single-child households. Families with many children and families with no children. Some manage disabilities, others mental wellbeing. Then there’s the household pets, chickens, gardens, after-school activities and the myriad needs of children, ranging from nappies to reassurance to discipline.
Vale Joff Chappel • Joff Chappel’s soul might have been in Adelaide’s East End, but his heart was in Aldinga. The iconic co-owner of the Miss Gladys Sym Choon boutiques in Adelaide and their Fleurieu sibling, Miss Gladys on Sea, passed away on April 4, 2020 after a long illness.
A timeless marriage of art and utility • Early in the process of grappling with the COVID-19 lockdown I received a message on Instagram with a picture of our autumn issue attached and a note: ‘Got me a copy today. Who is the best person to talk to about being a partner? Always bought the mag. It’s time to contribute.’
Notes from the outback • Long-time FLM writer Esther Thorn is currently living in Oodnadatta, where her husband is the town’s police officer. She reflects on living in one of the most remote places in Australia during a global pandemic.
The sharing table • We asked Helen Mouneimne from The Greek Vegetarian to help us gather together a winter-warming feast inspired by the spirit of sharing. The Market Precinct at Colonnades provided a wonderful all-inclusive shopping experience with food from Barossa Fine Foods, Charlesworth Nuts, Go Vita and Bakers Delight.
The perfect platter • As social isolation restrictions ease, we’ll all be able to partake in more social activities – long tables, platters of delicious food, local wines…and great friends. Let’s celebrate!
Winter landscape • There’s a particular painting in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia that I return to, a work by the South Australian artist Horace Trenerry (1899–1958). The subject is the back road between Aldinga and Maslin Beach. When I was growing up in the tiny town of Aldinga, this road was almost impassable in winter. Pot-holed and slewed with mud, it sat under those flat-bottomed clouds that Trenerry suspended in the winter blue.
Garlic in good graces • Across a thin stream draped in weeping willow, the rolling hills of Bull Creek are home to a farm so charming, it’s enough to provoke daydreams of a career change.
Finding comfort in the kitchen • It’s been a rough few months hasn’t it? It’s been a time of uncertainty, of being unsure what the new day will bring and a time when many people are doing it tough. At the same time, we’ve also seen the best of people.
A yarn pulled by passion • Sometimes it just takes a bit of free time to realise your passions and discover a new path in life. Despite a childhood surrounded by her oma’s...