CONTENTS
UPFRONT
3 ISLAND LIFE
4 PLANNER
5 FIRST PERSON
7 CHARLES WOOLEY
The price of dying is just too damned high and it’s because when we are grieving we are hardly likely to quibble over funeral costs .
FEATURES
THE WOLFE BROTHERS From teen rockers to kings of country, Tom Wolfe reflects on his band’s hard work and good fortune.
HOME SCHOOLING Children do not have to go to school to get an education. They can stay at home and learn just as much from Mum and Dad.
BEEKEEPING Guests at Saffire Freycinet get to go face to face with the bees.
GROWING OLD BOLDLY
You don’t have to be graceful in ageing.
GOODLIFE
FLOATING YOUR BOAT Furniture-maker Nick Randall.
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FOOD REVIEW TRAVEL BOOKS ART GARDENING Anyone who ever saw Tassie’s own Wolfe Brothers perform before they shot to national fame knew they were destined for big things. I was privileged to see them several times at numerous St Aloysius Catholic College functions, mainly because their mum, Lee, was a teachers’ aide at the school and they probably felt like they couldn’t say no to her! But who would have thought it would take a reality TV show like Australia’s Got Talent to see the local lads finally get the recognition they deserve and also get the opportunities to do things like write and record albums in the Mecca of country music, Nashville, Tennessee. And as Linda Smith reports, to see the humble band of brothers receive praise and support from the likes of Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daley and Kasey Chambers, they must be doing something right. To also see them recognised with an amazing four Golden Guitar Awards, at the recent Tamworth Country Music Festival, was just another huge feather in their Akubras. Couldn’t have happened to a better bunch of blokes.