Poncho and Nada
People and their Pets

People and their pets

Poncho the two-year-old miniature dachshund has been Nada Mallinson’s four-legged companion since 2022. Poncho was made for the camera as she starred in her own Instagram debut on March 28, 2022, with pictures of her flooding Nada’s personal account. “We like to call her cute, chocolate and tan,” Nada said.

Saturday night at the trucking yards
History

Saturday night at the trucking yards

Some blokes were at the pub, some with their partners at the local dances, but for a few truck drivers it was ‘Saturday night at the trucking yards’. The clanging of the rail line points and the roar of the locomotive’s engines, signaled the arrival of the first train for […]

Big numbers Persimmons
Grow Your Own

Grow your own – Persimmons

We have five of the most amazing persimmon trees here at Tullamore Farm.  We first experienced persimmon on a holiday to New Zealand about 20 years ago and have loved them ever since.  We have enjoyed introducing many others to the delight of this fruit when they visit for our farm […]

Autumn Skies
What Susie Saw

What Susie Saw – Autumn Skies

Here’s what the sky looked like very early on the first autumn morning of baby Rosie’s life. Those fleeting colours of the early autumn skies are just something else, aren’t they?

Jane Kruger
Personality Profile

Music led Jane to Beaudesert

JANE Kruger’s mum tells a story of the year ‘Play School Meets the Orchestra’ came out on VHS and Jane screamed for it every time the ad came on television. The year was 1992 and little Jane received that VHS for Christmas. Jane is now 34 years old with a […]

Katie Wakeman
People and their Pets

People and their pets – Katie and the fish

Azy and the Mollies are a school of fish adopted by Katie Wakeman back on August 12, 2023.  The school includes Angelfish Azy, Catfish Karma, Balloon Mollies R-2, Ozzy and Pebble, and Common Mollies Ghoul, Jaws and Otto.  The eight fish love chasing the filter bubbles and emerging from the shadows.  […]

Bill O’Sullivan
Grow Your Own

Grow your own – Brassicas

With the start of Autumn we are now beginning to plant all of our winter crops.   Starting about the second week of March – cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale and silverbeet seedlings (known as brassicas) plus onions, garlic and potatoes are planted.  We will stagger our plantings out over about a […]

Townsvale
History

History – Townsvale

TOWNSVALE, a once thriving town that is now a distant memory, could well have become the hub of the Beaudesert district.  The American Civil War (1861-1865) resulted in a world-wide shortage of cotton.  Master Mariner, Captain Robert Towns was the first to respond to calls from the Queensland Government for […]

What Susie Saw
What Susie Saw

What Susie Saw – bees and blooms

I stopped to admire the bees on the blooms on Duckett Street behind the shops, recently. I have it on good authority that these are coral vine blossoms, and they are edible.  I didn’t have a taste test, but they were a feast for the eyes and that was enough for […]

Charles boyle
News

Three ads changed his life

THE MAJOR chapters in Charles Boyle’s life can be put down to him reading three separate print advertisements. The journey of the 53 year old Beaudesert hairdresser from Glasgow features many crossroads, but the big turns in his trek all came down to notices businesses had placed in publications. The […]