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The urban garden 1

Along with lockdowns and working from home, the last eighteen months has seen a flourishing of inner city horticulture. TV gardening shows such as the iconic Gardening Australia have begun to focus more on the courtyard, balcony and indoors as well as featuring public gardens and large suburban or country plots. City living affords the

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Festival of ideas: Illuminate

They call South Australia the Festival State. We have festivals for everything. We have wine festivals, a cheese festival and (literally across the road) a vegan festival, beer and barbecue festival, The Adelaide Festival of the Arts aka The Festival, and its more unruly sibling: the Adelaide Fringe. There are festivals for cabaret, guitars, literature,

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Look both ways XVIII – Adelaide 2 sides

It’s been a while since the last Look both ways which was back in London, pre-pandemic Sometimes you don’t see what is right in front of you. This pair of images came from a walk into Adelaide’s East End dining precinct. The image above is of Rymill Park, just one of forty open areas that

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