Christmas Decoration Making December 4th, 2010

Each year we hold a Christmas Decoration Making morning for our smaller customers, the ones who love to fling sprinkles and glue around (which takes Bob at least four goes with the vac before it's all gone!), make beautiful decorations for their Christmas tree and listen to great story telling. This year we will have the wonderful tones of Nola Mills and I know the children will love her. This photo is from last year and our resident story teller (who's in Perth as I type) Jennifer Jones had the little ones in the palm of her hand.

We kick off at 10.00am and will throw the last tired parent out around 1.00pm. So if you're in the area and you have a small child with you (no entry without one) we'd love to see you. That's Saturday, December 4th.

Shopping After Dark - November 2010

We've held our Shopping After Dark for three years now and we're looking forward to doing it again. It's on Thursday, November 25th from 7.00pm to 8.30pm. There will be a glass of wine and some nibbly cheese for our customers. It would be great to see you there. Click here for your invitation. And if it all gets too much for you there's always the red couch to slump upon!

Patrick Morgan - 'Foothill Farmers'

On Saturday, November 20 Patrick will be at the bookshop to talk about and sign copies of his book 'Foothill Farmers'. Gippsland has an extensive imaginative literature of poetry, novels, plays, short stories and children's books as rich as any comparable region in Australia. As well as local writers like Mary Grant Bruce, Hal Porter, E. J. Brady and Mary Fullerton, famous Australian writers like Marcus Clarke, Henry Lawson, Rolf Boldrewood and Katherine Susannah Prichard wrote books based on Gippsland after visiting here.

'Foothill Farmers' analyses imaginative works relating to exploration, Aborigines, squatting, selection, mining, timber-getting, war and other topics. There is a bibliography included listing 80 authors and 130 books.

This is the second book for Patrick Morgan who published 'The Settling of Gippsland: A Regional History' in 1988 which won the Victorian Community History Award in 1998. 'Foothill Farmers' was launched on October 22nd at the Monash University Auditorium at Churchill, by writer Chester Eagle.

Click here for a copy of the flyer for the book signing.

Recipes From Murdoch Press

True to her promise Marianne from Murdoch has sent me a couple of great recipes from two of their latest cook books. Take a look and see if what you cook looks anything like what these chefs cook. The first is from 'My Party' by Pete Evans and 'Quay' by Peter Gilmore. You can download both of these pdf files and enjoy.