Lifestyle

“Light-hearted and Lyrical....” is a concert featuring both the quirky and the beautiful - songs chosen by Jennifer Holm and Dorothy Warren. The South Gippsland Singers will present this concert on June 21 at the Dakers Centre, at 2pm in Leongatha.

Conquering Victoria’s world class rail trails from one end to the other has long been the exclusive domain of avid cyclists and maybe the odd horse rider.

Daniele was born in 1940 during WW2 in the Alsace region of France. “I was very young but I do remember my mother turning the radio down low, shutting the blackout curtains at night and listening to the voice of Churchill on the BBC.”

We gardeners are a friendly lot, and will find any excuse to get together and chat about all things horticultural. And often we learn something as well.

While we take for granted that bird eggs have hard and brittle shells, eggs inside the female bird are soft shelled until shortly before laying, when calcium is added to harden them. Just why this happens is unclear, as plenty of reptiles (for example) lay soft shelled eggs.

In the afternoon of Saturday June 6, an exhibition of paintings and ceramics opened at Stockyard Gallery in Foster. Lynne Muir welcomed the large crowd who attended, many of them visitors to the area no doubt, thanks to the holiday weekend, after which both artists spoke about their work.

The Meeniyan Makers Market is back for its winter edition this King’s Birthday long weekend, filling the Meeniyan Town Hall with handmade treasures and local creative talent on Saturday 6 June from 10am to 2pm.