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house is just four walls and a roof, but a home is made up of everything that’s most important to you.

Whether you live in a house, on a boat, in a caravan… I believe it’s all the same.

For me, my home on acreage is a sanctuary that provides comfort and refuge from this crazy world at the end of each day.

I walk through the door, take off my heels, put on my most comfy house clothes and make a beeline for my favourite chair on the verandah, which is where my husband and I sit and share stories about the day’s events.

Our focus on ‘home’ this month has evoked many different emotions in our columnists and featured residents.

Some never had a home as children and spent their early years chasing the idealistic American dream of a big house with a white picket fence, representing a happy family with children, pets, and a sense of community safety.

Take a walk in a young Telaine Feeney’s shoes and see how the then single mum went on a journey to find a place where she belongs.

Sure, I may need to dodge about 50 superheroes, transformers and God only knows what else lying on the floor to get there, but that’s okay.

Her home is not filled with ‘stuff’; it is filled with laughter from her five children, adventure, and acceptance.

The two new additions to our family, Jett and Rockett the border collies, can be seen from the same seat out in the paddock, living their best life while jumping over reeds and swimming in the dam.

Each of their three children have their own space to get lost in a world of creativity and imagination, as do their parents.

The same spot overlooks the pool where we can see our little man splashing, playing and laughing without a care in the world.

Then the sun sets.

It’s then that the stress of the day fades away because the two most important people in my life are present, in our home, and it’s just the way we like it.

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Meet our cover stars, Jess and Deagan Bunting, who discovered that the relaxed and sustainable home they longed for, was achievable.

Each one of our amazing story tellers have found their own space, and it’s far from the expectations they once placed on themselves. They have each filled their homes with their own personal Zen.

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“A home to me is a sanctuary. Home is comfort. Home is inviting. Home is a refuge from the world.”

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Leanne Esposito

PLAYFUL CURIOSITY: THE SECRET TO A SUSTAINABLE HOME-LIFE

When we buy a home our thoughts are of settling down. It’s a major life investment. We’re in it for the long hall, especially our family home. We dream of watching our children grow and flourish in an abundance of our loving care. We are providing an essential of life. A roof over their heads. A shelter. One of the basic human needs, along with food and water.

But what does that dream home look like and will it last? A building inspection will sort out the structure but that’s not all that goes on when we make a house a home. There is so much more to this habitation thing, and sustaining a happy and healthy place in which to live is optimum.

Once upon a time in Hollywood Ira Irwin portrayed the Stepford Wives as the very model of a homemaker. Supposedly these were perfect women who polished pristine silverware to within an inch of a fork’s tine. Their fastidiousness was held up as the epitome of home care. Spoiler alert! They were all robots. Real women make real homes and not necessarily real pretty homes.

Now on to the pages of glossy house and gardening magazines portraying the ideal home. There is the white picket fence, manicured gardens, marble bench tops, pretty pendant lights and rain shower heads heralding the prize home. Sure they look great, but are they functional? Or even sustainable? Would

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you want to work, all day, every day, maintaining the look that the photoshoot portrays?

What if, instead of the perfect model, your prize was to build a happy place where you all live, laugh and learn. A place where you feel comfortable. Where everyone is loved and cared for and there is a genuine respect for each other, an awareness of humanity, your surroundings and the environment as a daily practice. A space where you can live without punitive boundaries. A place where the ‘don’t touch that’ and ‘ah-ahs’ are not imposed.

On a mission to discover whether a relaxed and sustainable home was achievable I met with Jess Bunting, mother to three young boys aged 9, 6 and 2 and wife to Deagan. Prior to my arrival Jess warned that her old dog was a bit on the nose. She would meet me at the gate. What I didn’t expect was the heartwarming welcome I received from this young earth-mother. That gate opening was an invitation to her world where impish smiles and bright eyes are the order of the day.

Jess is captivating in her spontaneous effervescence. She shows me around where an array children’s playthings are scattered across the yard. And it’s a big yard! She explains that she often hosts families from the local unschooling community

Every decision you make is yours and so after it’s done I’m happy with it because there is no questioning as to whether I’ve done the right thing. and that most of the toys have been sourced from the local recycling centre.

Next she invites me to the shed. It appears to be sectioned off into distinct quarters. The two older boys are busy constructing an imaginative piece in their designated area.

They are surrounded by an array of children’s paraphernalia.

To the far left there is a matted arena where Deagan and the boys practice Jiu Jitsu. Opposite to that is Jess’ sewing quarter. She is a remarkable seamstress who crafts children’s clothing. Jess explains the function of the multipurpose space.

“We can all be in here together doing our own thing and we are never far away from each other,” Jess said.

No separation here. I agree that creating a space the entire family can use all at the one time is a stroke of genius.

Jess invites me into the house. We pass by the permaculture gardens which surround the house and shed. The gardens grow with a rambling ease, fitting effortlessly into the landscape. No concrete bordered and whipper-snipped edges here. I image that television’s Costa Georgiadis, landscape architect, garden guru and sustainability practitioner would be proud. We sit at a round timber table and Sage, the youngest, hops onto his mother’s lap. He is a happy child, with a smile so infectious he could easily have the Mona Lisa’s lips broadening to a grin. Jess explains the garden and her sustainability practices to me.

“Everything is relational, all of it is connected. Our waste feeds the chickens, their waste feeds the gardens, the gardens feed us. When you view your smaller world as a connected unit, the bigger world is just at the doorstep, there

is no segregation. We are it.

“The world is changing, the systems we rely upon are shifting with the changes and the move toward selfsustenance feels good. For my gardens to thrive, the plants, the soil, the sun must work in harmony. It feels good to watch them flourish.

“My family feels good. Our household quite literally runs on connection, our relationships, the fuel or the sun.

“Our solar panels very much physically collecting that sun and transferring that energy through, and we offset back into the soil, back into our children and each other,” Jess said.

I admire her knowledge of what is a sustainable practice and how they choose to live with an environmental awareness. She is modest and mindful of her own limitations.

“We utilise a lot of sustainable practices however I know that I can’t do it all now. The gradual lessons that you learn with the curiosity comes the realisation that you cannot get to a place of total sustainability now because versions of sustainability shift as we live within our means. There is always the push to do more. The constant questions arise.

Does this feel okay with us? What’s our direction?

“We are constantly asking ourselves, where does that come from and could there be another option to doing it a different way?

“We do it at a pace that works for us. I find in those decisions that you make, and if you are not so hard etched into something, like I need to be more sustainable for the planet, then it works,” Jess said.

As I look around the Bunting Family home, I note the open

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Cover Sto r y plan design and eclectic mix of fabrics and furniture styles which fit comfortably beside each other. Computers, candles and climbing vines make for complimentary companions. A guitar, ukulele, keyboard and drums await the family’s next jam session.

Everything is in easy reach. Nothing’s packed away. It’s an open invitation to be playful.

Jess tells me her boys are unschooled in a government endorsed program where children are able to learn through life with lessons based on what is their particular interest. It is fundamental to her family’s philosophy.

“Playful curiosity, of children unencumbered, is where for me it branches into everything else, especially my parenting. Continual curiosity gets you more connected to what you are doing and who you are and why you are doing something,” Jess said.

I comment on a floating fruit sling which seems rather playful.

It hangs alongside a stylish candle holder. Both items are attached to a single timber post, which is one of a pair that frame the kitchen bench. Attention to detail is still evident in this relaxed space as I spy an identical candle holder positioned symmetrically on the twin post. I ask whether the candles are ever lit, and it seems that romantic evening cooking sessions are often on the menu.

Jess tells me that the fruit holder is repurposed bird-feeder purchased from Bunnings by her mum who seems to have an eye for the unusual. Perfect to keep vermin away from fresh produce I think. Not only is the home functional it feels happy, with bright hand-painted artworks adorning the wall. It certainly is fun and not surprisingly Jess explains.

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“I don’t look at my home from other people’s eyes because I’ve stepped outside of that wanting to keep up with the Joneses. Every decision you make is yours and so after it’s done I’m happy with it because there is no questioning as to whether I’ve done the right thing. Does it fit with this piece? Does that work? Is this considered? Is this feng shui? I don’t care. It looks nice and I like it,” Jess said.

She is passionate about life and eloquent in her explanation of how the family live.

“So we are still blazing a different path. Our home has five respected individuals who communicate pleasantly with love and affection so that we are all seen and heard. So, this is all of us. There is no mum, dad and children. There is no hierarchy. There is no difference. This is our home. This is our space and we are all calm and quiet and we all have our movements within this space. Every one of us is respected. I don’t know how I ever did it any different. I don’t know how it works for some but it’s perfect,” Jess said.

As I say my goodbyes and float-off on a new-age cloud of understanding to my carefully curated world of matching doodahs, I feel reborn, enlightened. Her world has rubbed off on me. It causes me to reflect on the angst of raising three eighties born children in a world where perfection was praised and where curiosity and playfulness was frowned upon.

I feel buoyed and optimistic knowing our future is safe in the hands of young families who are living in awareness of the possibilities for protecting our planet.

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he struggle to find her grandmother the perfect gift and a desire to start an E-commerce store was motivation enough for a Maryborough entrepreneur to turn her passion into a business.

Michelle Warren launched Holabox nearly two years ago and has been offering customers boutique and artisanal gifts and box hampers at the best prices ever since.

Michelle said Holabox operates primarily as a gift and box hamper service with ready to ship boxes available online.

People wanting to customise their gifts can do so instore or online via Holabox’s build-a-box function.

“I was shopping around for a gift for my grandmother and I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. I was thinking about starting my own E-commerce store at the time and that was what really got me thinking,” Michelle said.

Michelle said she had wanted to start an E-commerce store centred around artisanal products that were beautifully

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“The idea grew from there and together with my love for sending gifts, Holabox became a reality in October 2019,” she explained.

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“Things really picked up when COVID-19 struck. I had to get my head around selling non-essential items during a pandemic but then I reaslised I was helping put smiles on people’s faces,” Michelle said.

She said Holabox was beneficial to people on both sides of the exchange.

The person receiving the gift is able to unbox something sent especially to them by someone special, while the sender has the satisfaction of knowing they’re making someone’s day that much brighter with quality Australian products.

The online store allows people to select and deliver gifts across the country, with some international orders already completed.

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LOVING LIFE WITH LAUGHTER W

hen you start to laugh, it doesn’t just lighten your load mentally, it can induce physical change in your body.

That’s why Karen Flannery believes that laughter really is the best medicine.

The Hervey Bay resident has been the ever-smiling face of the Fraser Coast Laughter Club for the past four years, embracing the lives of the 10-25 happy laughers who attend the 45-minute session at the Hervey Bay Senior Citizens Centre once a week.

Karen explained that laughter can be used as a tool to combat depression, pain relief, grief, and other health issues.

It can also help maintain a happy level of well-being and improve social relationships and connections with others.

“It is impossible to stay angry when you are laughing,” she said.

“A Norwegian study found that those who have a sense of humour have greater longevity than those that do not, particularly when battling any types of illness or pain.

“Children laugh over 100 times a day, but unfortunately for adults the number drops to under 15.”

Laughter yoga clubs have spread to over 100 countries around the world and has been in Australia since Dr Kataria from India started Laughter Yoga in 1995.

He discovered that his patients that laughed more, had their health improve and dealt better with any illness.

So, he started a group in a park telling jokes but realised that you can laugh without jokes and combined the program with yoga breathing, and laughter yoga progressed from there.

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Karen described the sessions as a wellness exercise program that combines clapping, laughing, breathing and playfulness, that leaves you feeling like you can not only deal with life but enjoy it by using laughter as the key.

Walking into this interview, I had envisaged Karen standing in front of an audience, performing some sort of comedy routine to get the laughs forthcoming. It was nothing of the sort.

Fraser Coast residents of any age or abilities are invited to join the Lovely Laughter Ladies at the Hervey Bay Senior Citizens Hall, 28 Totness Street, Torquay, at 12.45pm each Monday.

The $4 cost goes to the club to cover cost of insurance, tea/ coffee, biscuit, and a lucky door ticket. Phone Karen on 0408 969 404 to find out more.

I had the pleasure of being joined by Karen and her five newly trained Lovely Laughter Leaders, who recently finished their training and can now support running the group each week.

Karen and the new volunteer recruits - Susan Sengstock, Sandra Gentsch, Jannifer Noble, Donna Sinclair and Pippa Dower – joined with me in a circle, ready to prove just how beneficial the sessions can be.

My day was rushed from the beginning and everything that could gone wrong, did go wrong, so I was more than willing to let my insecurities of looking foolish go, and join in the fun.

We started with a relaxing breathing exercise that “quietens the mind and takes you away from everything else going on in your life”, Karen said.

Then came some clapping movements that included a ‘very good, very good, yay’ chant, followed by a shy giggle and the cha cha, where it was totally okay that I fell over my own feet on more than one occasion. In fact, it made me laugh!

I was in a safe and comfortable environment with no judgement, where there was a genuine want for those taking part to truly feel better about themselves … and I did.

“The great thing about laughter is that if we laugh even when we don’t feel like it, it still stimulates our brain and stirs the endorphins, and we start to feel the benefit.”

Karen believes businesses and health workers could benefit from running Laughter Sessions in the workplace to promote teamwork, help with stress and improve the health and productivity.

She is also passionate about sharing laughter with Aged Care staff and residents and wants to provide training to interested staff so that laughter becomes a part of their daily routine.

“Five to 10 minutes each day would see an improvement in clients and staff’s mood, happiness and mental wellbeing,” Karen said.

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“It will stimulate the residents’ immune systems and help keep them healthier emotionally and physically.

“It is truly an amazing experience.”

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s a mum, I’ve made the odd cupcake in my day. They’re never beautiful, but they’re mostly just a vehicle for the crazy-coloured icing my girls want to lick off, leaving the abandoned ‘cake’ bit forlorn and yes, a little naked.

What I’ve never even dreamed of attempting is being invited into a commercial kitchen for a 1:1 session with someone whose job it is to decorate cupcakes and make them beautiful. That was all about to change thanks to an exciting invitation down to the Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre’s Wandering Teapot.

The Wandering Teapot (TWT) itself is an incredible initiative – like every HBNC initiative – to help combat the concerning rates of youth unemployment, poverty and homelessness affecting our great region. It may have been dealt a blow last year with the adverse affects of the pandemic on their business, but, of course you can’t keep an innovator from innovating.

The Wandering Teapot now happily finds itself nestled within the comforting walls of the neighbourhood centre.

As I pop in for my big cupcake decorating debut, the sounds, sights and smells are just like any other café, only this one is doing so much good in our community.

I arrive in the centre’s commercial kitchen – it happens to be a Wednesday, so preparations for Comfort Kitchen are well under way. Program director Wayne and a wonderful volunteer are making great headway through tray after tray of pumpkin, slicing and dicing and whacking it in the giant oven to bake. The sheer volume of food they prepare each week is astounding.

But it’s time to focus and get down to the good stuff – the cupcakey goodness, that is… Enter: Cupcakes for Change!

TWT manager and recent graduate of the associated hospitality training program, Alana, greets me as she’s getting the last bits and bobs together. I swoon at how much like a

telly demonstration it is with the cupcakes we’ll be decorating already on the bench and waiting for us. My brain is all, ‘here’s one I prepared earlier’, and I do a little inward smirk at the thought.

It turns out the cake bit of the cupcakes are supplied by local bakery, Top of the Bay, so all Alana needs to do is dress them and make them beautiful – A.K.A., the best bit.

She takes me through the process of making the icing itself.

And just between you and me, the amount of fancy schmancy vanilla bean paste that went in to the mix gets me salivating a little.

Once the icing has been prepared, we give it some colour.

Given they’re to be used for getting customers in the Mothers’ Day spirit, we go with pink, pink and a bit of pink and white marble… very flash!

I attempt one of my great loves (*NB: I didn’t say ‘skills’), and pipe the glorious icing in a generous swirl on top. The possibility I’ve been a little too generous with my topping is evident as the cupcake might as well be groaning under the weight of it.

But, as we say in the cupcake biz, “more is more”, isn’t it?!

With each cupcake fully loaded and ready for some final flourishes, Alana reveals her toolbox of decorative finishing touches. There’s edible glitter, flowers, sprinkles, cachous, cutesy things on tiny sticks… we use them all, even the glitter, and I couldn’t be happier about it.

My jaw just about hits the floor when Alana brings out the biggest of big guns in the land of cupcake decoration: gold leaf (*gasp*). I’m being kind to myself to say I have not yet mastered that particular material. Perhaps I ran before I could walk…

Suffice it to say, my time with Alana and The Wandering Teapot crew has been fun, informative, uplifting and educational. It’s gratifying to know there’s a deeper purpose being served here, even just through the magic and wonder of cupcakes.

I suppose my parting gambit would be simply to encourage you, dear reader, to head on down to the café and not only grab something delicious, but also show your support for this amazing program that is doing so much for the broader community.

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any glasses were raised at the opening of Cauldron Brewery three months ago to say cheers to the start of something incredibly special for lovers of craft beer on the Fraser Coast.

Martin spent years designing all the brewing equipment, including 11 fermenters, which were engineered in China and – after waiting over six months during the Coronavirus pandemic – were finally delivered via two semi-trailers in July last year.

The two are well-known around Australia’s craft beer brewing circles, having owned Hervey Bay’s National Home Brew store for the past 11 years.

That includes all the piping systems that go to each individual fermenter with temperature controllers.

For owners Martin and Karen Potter, it was a poignant day that signalled a culmination of three years of sleepless nights, incredibly hard work and over $1 million to open the business Martin had always dreamed of.

Three years ago, they put the wheels in motion to bring Hervey Bay its own independent multi-vessel brewhouse, and what a success it has been.

Most breweries have partners, are crowd funded or are awarded government grants, but the Potters have done it all on their own, which is a massive feat.

Karen said the support from the public had been overwhelming, which was a great reward for all the trials and tribulations they faced while building the business from scratch.

“We’ve done it all ourselves and we’re very proud of it,” Karen said.

“It’s a great feeling, the pleasure you get from people coming here and enjoying what we have created is amazing.

“The way that people receive it and are enjoying it, and people walking away smiling is an absolutely awesome feeling.”

Karen started by searching high and low for a site that could house not only the brewery but the home brew store as well, and their building at 1 Old Maryborough Rd was the perfect choice.

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The company was to send over an engineer to put all the equipment together but that was scrapped due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, leaving Martin to put all the pieces of the brewing puzzle together himself.

It needed a science degree to master the creation and luckily that’s something both Karen and Martin hold.

“Once the slab was down and the coating was on, we were ready to install all the equipment,” Karen said.

“We had a crane come in and lift all the actual brewing equipment in place and the fermenters all got put together by a forklift and pallet jacks, which was a massive job.

“There was a lot of blood, sweat and tears, and a lot of swearing,” she said with a laugh.

Now, there can be up to 7500L of beer brewing at any one time, and it takes about three weeks on average to create the perfect brew, depending on the type of beer … and there is many.

Not only did Martin build the business, design the equipment, and brew the beer on site, he has also created over 2500 oneof-a-kind beer recipes.

Karen could not be prouder of her husband who she describes as an “absolute perfectionist”.

“He is an absolutely exceptional brewer,” she said.

“None of his beers will ever come out anything other than perfect!

“He takes a lot of time and care to get it right and working on the recipes to build them and get them right is a big thing.”

Craft beer has a richer and more distinct taste than watery mass-produced beer, and the Potters are both extremely passionate about the taste and flavour, as well as beers rich history.

Karen explained how the Indian Pale Ale hailed from the days when sailors travelling from England to India used Hops to make beer, because the water was tainted and made them ill.

Hops are the flowers, or cones, of a plant called Humulus lupulus that help to keep beer fresher, for longer.

“The more hops in there the higher the price of the beer, and they are expensive to buy,” she said.

“Hops are what give you the flavours and aromas in IPA’S and Pale Ale beers.

“There’s a lot of history to learn and it’s really interesting.”

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Many people binge watch TV dramas on Netflix, but Karen and Martin opt for beer making documentaries where they have taken many trade secrets and applied it to their own business.

“Watching all those beer shows enabled us to build a brewery and not make the same mistakes that everyone else made, get it right and have less hassles down the track.

“Being educated is the key. There is a lot of science, chemistry and physics, behind brewing beer.”

They say there’s not one beer that’s been more popular than the other, with all 15 taps getting good use.

Lucky there’s a four-glass tasting paddle available because the decision of just what to drink is a head scratcher.

There’s an exciting selection of pale ales, mid-strength lager, apple ciders, Irish stout, and English Porter, just to name a few.

As a wine drinker, my eyes went straight to the choice of dry and sweet ciders, but Karen assured me that a taste of their sours may just convert me to a beer drinker.

“There’s a lot of beer there that not big beer drinkers will actually drink.

“People walk in here and look at the beer list and just die because they haven’t seen that sort of variety before … it’s definitely not your standard pub beer.

“They stand there and look at it and just don’t know what to choose and often end up with a taster paddle to go through and help them decide.

“There’s also a lot of main stream commercial beer drinkers that have discovered our lager and realise that other beers just aren’t that good in comparison.”

The two have also incorporated an on-site kitchen and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as far as the chef’s perfection goes.

The menu was designed by their son and head chef Patrick who has just as much passion for food as his parents have for beer.

“Everyone just raves about his food,” Karen said.

“He moved back to Hervey Bay to get us started and he had done a wonderful job. He’s very good at what he does.”

The two say there’s plenty of work to still be done but for the most part, they are elated to see the public enjoying the flavours of their labour.

If you haven’t done so already, go along and check them out.

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Have you always been musical?

I’ve always enjoyed music on some level. My earliest musical memories are of my grandparents record player. I remember listening to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and those big band guys. Then it was just whatever was on the radio. I still have a lot of affection for the AM dial, easy listening stuff.

What/who are your musical influences?

First and foremost my influences are the people I grew up playing in bands with. John Mayer says that great music needs a ‘host’ - someone to introduce you to the classics of each musical genre. Hanging around with musos is a great way to be introduced to a wide catalogue of stuff.

What/who are you listening to now?

These days I listen to anything that’s ‘real’. A lot of music that’s made today is treated like a slice of bread - even the people who make it know it’s going to go stale pretty quickly. I like to listen to music that will last.

A good song is always a good song. I like Tedeschi Trucks, Blackberry Smoke, stuff like that. Plus the classics, like Zeppelin, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, I could go on for ages...

Favourite line from a song?

Tough choice, but I’ll go with “She’s headed for the cheatin’ side of town” from Lying Eyes by the Eagles.

It’s an incredible song, beautifully crafted with great structure and harmonies. There’s very few perfect songs, but that might be one of them.

Do you still practise regularly?

Every Friday and Saturday night!

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What instruments do you play?

I play a lot of instruments badly and none particularly well. I’ve worked in music shops a bit in the past so you’ll pick up a different instrument and have a bit of a go. Mostly I play guitar and sing, but I can hold my own on ukulele, harmonica, bass, drums and a few others.

What gig would you like to have been/gone to?

The music scene in Brisbane in the early 2000s was pumping. I played in a few bands around that time. The Valley was such a hub of great bands like Powderfinger, Regurgitator, Glockenspiel and more.

All of those gigs were great. Fat Ricks on a random Thursday night was always great. I’d go back there anytime.

If you could play any gig or venue, where would you play?

I love obscure gigs. I enjoy going to a country pub or a caravan park and playing for people who didn’t even plan on listening to music when they came out. I love winning people over, telling stories, having people shout out requests and then playing the song they requested and having them nod their head and sing along. I like a gig where I have to work for it.

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ur home is meant to be our sanctuary. A good home is a place that we can relax and feel safe and comfortable to be our self. When we have a stable place that we can recess from the world and recharge we also have strong foundation from which we can confidently step out into the world.

Some would consider that our most primary home is this body that we inhabit. It provides the structure and engineering that accommodates us and allows us to move around and produce actions. This body even has all of the intricate systems that consume, digest and metabolise energy and sense and perceive the world around us. It even has the ability to interact with our environment and other people that are also existing within, and doing their best to operate, their own similar, but infinitely unique and varied, bodies.

I quite like the concept that our body is our first home. The phrase ‘feeling at home in your own skin’ alludes to that peace and comfort that can be found when one feels content and confident in their own body and I like to think that if you are at home in your own body then you will be able to feel at home no matter where you go in the world.

There are many ways that we can relate to our bodies and our homes in similar ways. We can treat them with love and care and tend to their maintenance and longevity, or we can be less careful about doing things that will cause damage and not really pay attention to the wear and tear that happens over time and quite often as things stop working we put up with it or find a work-around, instead of fixing the actual problem.

Similarly, how we feel about our home will affect how we treat it and how we make decisions about its use and care. When we are proud of it and value everything that it provides us with we tend to take better care of it and tend to its needs as they come up; on the other hand, if we don’t like our home and take for granted the value and function that it provides we are less likely to take good care of it.

One tried and true method for improving our relationship with our body is the mindfulness practice of the body scan. This simple practice provides an opportunity to tune-in and pay attention to every part of our body. When we get into a comfortable position and rest our attention on each part of our body, starting at our toes and working bit by bit up to our head, we can observe any sensations we feel on the inner or outer parts of the body. If there is any tightness, pain or pressure we can breathe into that area and imagine breathing out any discomfort, stress or emotion being held in that part of the body on the out breath. This practice is known for deepening self-awareness and inner peace.

If you wanted to take the body scan practice one step further you could even imagine breathing a feeling or intention into that part of the body that it might need - you could breathe in love, acceptance, kindness, ease, grace or support – the possibilities here are endless and the art comes from tuning in and listening to your body’s needs. This is something that you will get better and better at the more you do.

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n 2006 My husband Paul and I had been looking for a rural property because we had lived in Hervey Bay for many years, and found it was getting too busy for us.

We found a 60-acre property on the banks of one of the catchments of Lenthalls dam, near Torbanlea, the little house on the property was originally a small 1960’s beach-house that was moved to its present location from Gatakers Bay in 2003, it’s slanted front windows leaned outward to offer up a beautiful view of the river, which to this day still takes my breath away.

The first thing we did after moving in to the “little house” with my youngest daughter was to build the large vegetable garden (that has been feeding us ever since), and next was the water pumps to the house and orchard and yards for animals, next came the cows, sheep, goats, chicken coop and the chooks.

It’s been an ongoing project over the years, planting ornamentals, fruit trees, and natives to attract birds and we have plenty of every colour.

In 2010 the little house was getting too small for us, with my daughter gaining a partner and later my two grandchildren.

We decided to build a larger family home not far away, still overlooking the river leaving the children behind, though only 50 metres away.

It was a joy to be woken from my slumber every morning with little ones climbing into bed with us.

Christmas and holidays in our home is always filled with fun, food and laughter, swims in the river, fishing and a drink or two.

Our children, two adult girls and their partners, six-and-a-half grandchildren and always the extra friends and family and an exceptionally large slip and slide make for an incredibly fun day!

I love my home and family, I love what my husband and I have built, and I love the fact that we can sit down to a meal, often provided solely by the land we live on.

The children have a home of their own now, we gather here whenever we can, and the grandchildren always come for the holidays.

The “Little House” next door is now called “Waters Edge Cottage” an Airbnb since 2018.

The property is loved by guests, visiting animals, rowing on the river, and foraging in the vegetable garden for edibles for their BBQ. The cosy little cottage still brings back lovely memories for us, and often will abandon the larger house to sit and recollect the times had there.

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At the same time I believe it’s crucial for our mental health and when we make space for ourselves, we’re better mums for it.

So if that means squeezing in what we love around the chaos of running a household and other commitments then let’s stop making excuses and just do it.

The combination of exhaustion, anxiety and all the other difficulties that come with caring for a baby can quickly leave our fuel tanks running on empty.

After recently becoming a mother of two I have come to realise that it doesn’t have to be perfect, but it’s absolutely necessary to develop a self-care routine. And the good news is, if you love yoga like me, all you need is a mat, your backyard or lounge room and as little as 10 minutes.

I know just how important the benefits are for me both mentally and physically, yet up until recently I had put my yoga on the back burner.

At times it just felt impossible to get out of the house, let alone go for a walk or practice yoga.

If you’re feeling the same way, then I challenge you to join me in making a commitment to practice yoga, exercise or simply do something you love at home every day for the month of May. You owe it to yourself to make you a priority.

It’s the perfect remedy for those days we simply can’t muster up the energy to pack up the kids and head out.

There are days where my practice incorporates a toddler playing trucks in and around my poses, while my baby lays on the mat. All while the house is a mess.

Some days I start and stop and start and stop, but hey at least I have got something done for myself.

We also have dance parties some afternoons where I’ll play a fun song and hold bub while dancing with my toddler. It’s hilarious and certainly gets the serotonin pumping.

If we’ve had a long night and couldn’t be bothered driving away from home for a walk, we’ll pull out the double pram and simply walk around the block .

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ome is that place you where you can sink into your couch, drink a cup of tea and relax in the walls of your own space. Owning your own home has been a part of the Australian dream for as long as most can remember.

It is an exciting time! Some sacrifice the finer things to save their money and others have relatives happy to gift them their deposit to help contribute to their future. I have many conversations week on week about how to get into your first home.

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That was me by the way … work, work, work, save, save, save.

Now here’s the disclaimer: I am giving very generic options here, not stating exactly what any one can do as it all depends on individual circumstances. Please call me if you would like to discuss your situation and I can give you individual guidance.

To get into your first home you have a few options:

Save your do$h: You can save your deposit from your wages over to a savings account until you have the minimum amount required to purchase your first home. The general rule is you require a minimum of 5% that can be classed as genuine savings. Keep in mind you do actually require more than this as there are additional costs that require payment when purchasing a home.

Obviously this figure is dependant on the price of the house you are wanting to purchase. The absolute minimum deposit requirement will incur the payment of lenders mortgage insurance. This is an amount that is a one off payment and can be capitalised to your loan amount and paid off over the term of your loan. This also changes based on your loan amount and also your loan to value ratio(LVR).

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Family guarantee: There is also the option to use the equity in a family members home to help towards your deposit. There is a lot more that goes into this but a basic explanation is that the bank will allow you to utilise equity in existing property that a family member owns to cover your deposit amount.

This also negates you from paying mortgage insurance as the bank will be fully covered by both properties included in the transaction. You can input a deposit if you would like, but this is not required as the equity can cover your deposit plus any costs involved in purchasing. To mitigate the risk to the guarantor there are two separate loans in this structure.

The guarantor is only supporting 20%(plus costs if included) of the total loan required. The guarantor does not have to support the loan for the life of it as there are strategies to be removed from this responsibility. As always, please have a chat with me if this is something you are looking to consider as a way of purchasing.

The market at the moment is strong and the rental market is becoming extremely hard to get into. If purchasing your first home is something you would like to consider please give me call and we can discuss the different ways you could make this a possibility. And remember, Don’t take advice from Joe Blow. I can’t stress enough how much buying a house is based on very individual circumstances. You’d be kicking yourself if you didn’t buy that house you loved because you thought it wasn’t possible.

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STIMULATING THE SENSES

What is it that makes your house a home? Is it being grounded, having a feeling of connection, smell, sound, seeing, and the taste of memories?

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s soon as you open the door, you know that you are at home. Home is a place where you can withdraw from for a while, but only for a short period of time.

It’s that wonderful feeling of coming home that you only get to know when you are gone.

Sight, touch, sound, smell, taste. Our mood, our emotions, our behaviour.

After traveling, after adventure, the unknown … coming back and feeling at ease.

Surround yourself with all the great memories as without knowing it, they will put a smile on your face and will warm your heart.

I sleep easily, find my own habits in the unknown and can realize with great happiness that we live in a beautiful world.

Beautiful fabrics or rugs that feel warm and cuddly, trigger your sense of touch.

My heart is where my home is. My home is where my heart is!

And yet, the longing for home can always overtake me.

It’s the deep longing for my scents, my recycled furniture, my nick-nacks, my colours.

That’s home. Especially when we don’t have our loved ones around us, the feel of them being near can be really important for our wellbeing.

That is why it is so important to make your place, yours.

It needs to be you with all your habits and enjoyments.

Even when it is a bit messy or busy, if you feel good with having your own bits and pieces or your emotions and memories around you, then it will feel emotionally pleasing.

You might need to have the help from an expert to put it all in balance, so it is easier to enjoy, but the base for a home has been set. Your heart is exposed.

Do you also know the feeling when you walk into your home and you recognise the smell of it? Your own smell, like your washing, coffee or baking.

Smell is also really important as it is 1 of the 5 senses and we react automatically to them.

It is a comforting feeling of yours, your home, belonging.

We constantly act in response to the incoming stream of information we receive through our senses.

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senses. Therefore, it makes sense when designing to consider all the senses and not only the visual aesthetics.

Memories can be in photo’s but also in recycled furniture, pieces that have been brought back from a nice holiday or found on the beach.

You can use the texture in your home to create the feel you want. Fabric and texture can invite someone to sit and send good vibes through a home, hard surfaces can really make a room feel cold or warm.

Some people for instance like to walk bare feet in a soft and warm carpet and others like the natural feel of tiles. The right curtains can give you that cocoon of comfort or the soft connection to an ocean wave.

Colour can also have a significant impact on feeling of being at home.

Colours you choose for your home will affect your lifestyle. Colours can calm your mind, make you more active, help you sleep, make you happy, and even make you feel hungry.

Colours say something about you as a person and can be an extension of your mood.

So how nice is it to come home in the colour that suit you. Whether that is a lot of pink, a subtle touch of sea green or a contrast between your main colour and the accessories, colours show who you are.

I like to believe that everyone should, needs and deserves a particular place who/what you truly love and that guides you in your thoughts, wellbeing, giving you a direction in life. Everyone needs that particular place, being it a home, or a place called home, a place to go back to, to feel connected to, to be your heart.

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All a b ou t fo o d

Scott Thompson and Jason England

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uring the planning and design stage of Odyssey we needed to develop a kitchen that would be functional and provide for a variety of cooking equipment within a limited amount of space.

During Jason’s time working for Rick Stein in Cornwall at St Petroc’s Bistro, he cooked on a charcoal barbecue called a Big Green Egg.

We both felt strongly that using a charcoal barbecue in the kitchen was a must! We enjoy the aromas and flavour that are imparted to food when barbequing with charcoal.

SOOTHING TO THE SENSES

The cooking smell evokes memories of family and friends gathering on the patio, a drink in hand, with the barbeque imparting that smoky tantalising smell, then sitting down to enjoy a variety of accompanying dishes with the BBQ fare.

We set our focus on introducing a Big Green Egg into our kitchen plan, to create an experience that delivered the nostalgia of those occasions.

Our chefs Jason and Neil use the Green Egg as much as possible when it comes to the daily operations of the kitchen.

From charring local Dart fish to be served with agrodolce, glazing and barbecuing pork neck from local farmers ‘Piggy in the Middle’, and barbecuing the 90-day dry aged meats provided by Dale at Kawungan Butchers.

The Green Egg has become one of the most important pieces of equipment in the Odyssey kitchen. We are continually learning and testing new and exciting ways of utilising our Big Green Egg by adapting our preparation and barbeque skills to a variety of local produce to offer new taste experiences to our diners from our ever-changing menu.

For this month’s Alive magazine edition, I wanted to share my favourite go-to barbecue meal. Featured in the photos is Jerk Chicken which is mostly associated with Jamaica but a common dish found throughout the Caribbean.

The key ingredients of the dish are Allspice and Scotch Bonnet Chillies and is at its best when cooked over coals.

The intense dry heat caramelises the marinade leaving the chicken crispy and charred which is absolutely delicious, pairing well with a nice Pinot Gris.

My favourite sides to accompany Jerk Chicken are a pickled red cabbage slaw, yoghurt flatbread, pickled radish and kewpie mayonnaise. It’s always a winner when shared with friends and family.

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RESTORE YOUR BEAUTY FROM WITHIN I

f you have flush red skin on your body, cheeks or nose, or sunscreen burns your skin on application, then there could be a good chance you suffer from a from a form of rosacea or dermatitis.

Both of these conditions actually start in the gut.

Inflammation within the body must come out somehow and normally it is through inflammation and heat of the skin.

So, what can you do about it?

This is not a quick fix. It’s so important to take the time to work out why it is happening and what triggers are causing your flare up.

When you come into the salon, the first thing we do is ask you to keep a food and stress diary.

These two factors play a huge part in how your skin will behave.

Generally, you will find a pattern quite quickly of anything that can bring inflammation into the body. We know most of them including anything processed like: • Deli meats

• White bread • Pasta

• Ready-made meals.

• Soft drink • Alcohol

S k i n Care and B eau ty

Abby Blanke

Rosacea can be tricky to get under control with products, so you need to understand how severe your symptoms are before working out what products will be best for you.

But it is important not to using anything that is stripping of the skin, so avoiding harsh exfoliants or scrubs, strong gel foaming cleansers and I would avoid using glycolic and salicylic acid.

Instead, you need to nourish the skin by using ingredients like rose hip oil, triglycerides and jojoba oil.

These ingredients have the same genetic function as our skin’s natural barrier.

So, while we are repairing internally, we can use these ingredients topically to help calm and restore an upset barrier.

Our top go to skincare products is:

• Activating Youth Oil balm • Medi Soothe

• Anti – Stress Serum • Recovery Cream • Repair Serum • Mineral Pro

To really combat your results, the go to treatment is LED and lymphatic mask treatment.

LED helps to stimulate healthily functioning cells that retain and hold oils to keep a strong barrier.

Combine these with stress factors, especially what is happening right now with Covid- 19, and it can be a recipe for very upset red skin.

Strong barrier means no inflammation or redness.

Curcumin has been known to have huge healing properties, including calming, and repairing the gut lining. Essential Fatty Acids like Omegas 3 and 6 are also hugely important as this produces healthy bacteria in the gut, which reduces inflammation.

If your skin is playing up a little more than normal due to what we are currently experiencing in our world today, talk to one of our trained skin therapists and see how we can help.

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Brooke Wilson

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PARADISE ON DOORSTEP

think we can all agree that Hervey Bay is a wonderful little pocket of paradise that we are lucky enough to call home. Crystal clear calm waters, relaxed coastal lifestyle, a plethora of cafes and restaurants, the whales in winter, and of course, World Heritage listed Fraser Island right on our doorstep.

Thousands flock to Fraser Island each year to explore its natural beauty, and with the island boasting an array of stunning swimmable lakes and creeks, lush forestry, and rich Australian history, it is little wonder why.

All this wonderful rain we have had recently has settled the tracks and the forestry is thriving, so now is also the perfect time to jump on board the ferry and head over.

Fraser Island has so much to offer and has options to suit any age or demographic. For those looking for a short but relaxing break, a fantastic option is to spend the day at Kingfisher Bay Resort. Take full advantage of the resort’s facilities, including swimming pools, nature trails, guided walks, and tennis and volleyball courts. You can even hire canoes and stand-up paddleboards.

After working up an appetite, head over to the Sand Bar Bistro for relaxed casual dining. Why not try one of their made to order pizzas, or perhaps some BBQ spare ribs? Yum! Afterwards, head over to the Sunset Bar and sip on a delicious cocktail while watching the sun set.

If just the one day isn’t quite enough, Kingfisher Bay Resort boasts a range of accommodation options from private hotel rooms all the way through to full sized holiday homes with

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enough space to house fifteen people!

If you are looking for a little more adventure, jump on board one of the Fraser Explorer buses, departing daily from Wanggoolba Creek. This is the perfect way to see the highlights of Fraser while in the comfort of an airconditioned 4WD bus while your experienced driver talks about the fascinating history of the island and about the sights you’ll see along the way.

Learn all about Central Station, the Maheno Shipwreck, the Pinnacles, and float down the crystal-clear waters of Eli Creek.

A highlight of your day though would be at world famous Lake Mackenzie, which due to the white silica sand and pure freshwater, it is a crowd favourite for good reason. According to local folklore, scrubbing the sand into your skin like an exfoliate can take ten years off your appearance!

Longer tours are also available, with accommodation at Eurong, with the opportunity to travel along the entire stretch of 75-Mile Beach, the only sand highway in the world, and all the way up to Champagne Pools at the northern end of the island. Of course, travellers can take their own 4WD vehicles across to the island, and camp at one of the many designated zones and areas.

There is certainly no shortage of things to do over on Fraser Island, so if you haven’t yet been, or even if you have, there is always something new to explore.

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SHE’S ALL CLASS

mongst all the pictures on the wall of popular music bands of the era was a poster of the evolution of the real McCoy Chevrolet Corvette evoking memories of The Cannonball Run and Corvette Summer movies for a teenage Leanne Kernke.

40 years on, the sleek looking sports-car is no longer admired in the picture … it’s in her driveway.

The Hervey Bay resident always hoped to own one but didn’t find it practical when prioritising other commitments.

A surprise drive of a fellow Corvette enthusiasts’ car for her 50th birthday only made Leanne want to fulfil the dream of owning one more.

It was also the experience she needed before finding one of her own. The car was left hand drive, as well as manual.

“I’ve always driven manual cars but that was too much of a brain strain,” Leanne said with a laugh.

“I knew I either needed a converted right-hand drive manual

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or a left-hand auto.”

Then the search for her dream car began.

After looking around Queensland for a year-and-a-half, Leanne ended up finding the perfect ride just around the corner from her home - a 1981 C3 Corvette Stingray.

It was obviously meant to be.

The original red paint and upholstery was tired and worn after nearly 40 years but after a check-up from Trev and T&S Automotive, the green light was given for it being mechanically and structurally sound.

It was the last of its shape, sleek and smooth, and Leanne couldn’t wait to bring her back to life.

After some initial joyrides, the car spent nearly six months in the hands of Lee at Pialba Smash Repairs, who Leanne described as an absolute perfectionist restoring it’s body work and spray paint.

He even tried to match the gorgeous red from a bottle of

Leanne’s favourite nail polish.

“The colour caused everyone involved quite a bit of stress.

Getting the facelift perfect was definitely a labour of love,” Leanne said.

“She had quite a bit of work done during Covid because she had spent a bit of time in the weather and needed some TLC when we got her 18 months ago.”

Leanne said it was important to her to stay true to the era, with everything else on the car remaining original, with new upholstery imported from America.

The sound of the 351 Chev under the bonnet is also music to her ears.

Ideally it should be driven with the targa top off and the wind in your hair Thelma and Louise style.

“I love the shape of it, but I do really love the sound it makes.

“It has a really good rumble.

“The boys keep threatening to upgrade the engine, but I don’t need it to go any faster and I love the sounds just as it is.”

Leanne also loves her personalised number plate even though it often leaves passers-by confused.

“The plates needed a tag like the songs of the car’s era so it had to be ‘I See Red (ICR3D), the Split Enz song’ for a little red corvette,” she laughed.

“People often stop me and ask what it is.”

After getting her fully on the road about three months ago, Leanne now gets behind the wheel most weekends for a cruise.

And If any ladies join her there is one prerequisite … be prepared to put on the red lippy because this car is one “classy lady.”

Fast Fact:

The 1981 Chevrolet Corvette was the first model year to be built simultaneously in two locations. The first Corvette assembled at the new Bowling Green, Kentucky plant was completed on June 1, 1981.

Conversely, the last Corvette to roll off the St. Louis assembly line did so on August 1, 1981. There was also a high number of colour choices available for the 1981 Corvette.

The reason for the increased number of colours (including some duplicate choices) was that different types of paint were used at each of the two assembling plants during production.

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Parenti ng

Amanda Coop

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EN kids, a birthday party full of sugary treats and a queen-sized air bed. What could possibly go wrong?

Fast-forward to me lying down many hours later on said air bed, and I’m sure you can imagine what had gone wrong.

“Shhhh,” I said to the kids. “Listen … I think the air bed’s leaking.”

Miss 9, Mr 6 and I were staying at my sister’s and brother-in-law’s house for my nephew’s 8th birthday. Mr 6 and I had the air bed while Miss 9 was on a mattress nearby.

We lay in silence. There was a distinct whooshing sound coming from the bed.

“There,” I said. “It’s leaking.” I pulled back the sheet and identified a rather large hole. Looking pointedly at Mr 6, I sighed.

He started crying.

“Don’t make me pay for it,” he said pleadingly, referring to my earlier threat that if he popped the air bed, the money for a replacement would come out of his pocket money.

“Well, I can’t make you pay for it,” I told him. “Everyone was on it.”

“Everyone except the girls,” Miss 9 pointed out both smugly and,

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WHERE MEMORIES ARE MADE

unfortunately, truthfully.

It was 10.30pm. We were all bone-tired because the kids had risen early with their excited birthday-boy cousin. The birthday boy was in his room, my sister doing the same as me and trying to get him to wind down. My newest nephew, her second son, was only six weeks old so if anyone knew the definition of tired it was her and I felt awful breaking the news that we would need to come up with another sleeping arrangement.

As we dragged our tired bodies around and the boys argued about whose fault it was, we still couldn’t help but have a bit of a laugh. The kids had been told ad nauseam to stay off the air bed so the outcome had been sadly predictable. Mr 6 informed us that the guests couldn’t resist the air bed because it was like having a trampoline. “There is an actual trampoline outside!” I told them in frustration.

We finally got the kids to sleep and then little Mr Six Weeks woke for his next feed. I decided to ignore my drooping eyelids and keep my little sis company just as she’d done almost a decade before when I had Miss 9.

Even though I missed my bed (and my

husband and our pets), home to me is not just a building. The people and the memories with which we fill those buildings truly define what it means to be home. The chaos of our family gettogethers never overrides our desire to be together again and the events that are frustrating at the time are fodder for future laughs.

Tonight, back at my home, I’m glad to see my hubby, who’d stayed behind to work. I’ll appreciate the comfort that comes with being back in familiar surroundings and my own bed. But I’ll also be thinking of my sister and my sweet little nephew, and wondering how many times their slumber will be interrupted. As they say, home is where the heart is. My heart is very much here with my immediate family, and spread out across the kilometres that separate me from our extended family.

I’m extremely grateful that we all occupy the same state and have not been separated as those who live apart in different states or countries have been in the past year.

Our track record isn’t great on air beds (that was the third), but thankfully our bond isn’t so easily broken.

From t he she d

David Everett

I

FIGHT FOR A HOME

t’s ironic that my first column for Alive Magazine was about finding my place in our new rental house, and discovering just what having a shed meant to me as a person.

Not as a male, but to me individually. Bugger the traditionalism of a shed being the man’s space, I really couldn’t care less about that, but what having a space like this for the first time meant to me and how it really helped me cement this house we had moved to as feeling like a home.

Now this is where the irony of my first Alive column comes in!

This month is the ‘home’ edition and I am sadly writing about how we have lost that home.

This house, our home with my shed was intended as a long term arrangement, not just by us but by the owners as well.

After about 11 months of renting the home, I received a phone call from the agent letting us know that the owners had decided to sell and gave us two months to find a new place.

Technically the agent was calling the owners about it, but they erroneously dialled my number and started talking to me about it before I interrupted them to say; “you know you are speaking with the tenant and not the owner right?”. Cue awkward silence and dropping of the bombshell that we would not have our home anymore.

What changed in the owner’s situation we don’t know and while we were and still are devastated, we couldn’t fault them as we do believe they intended it to be long term for us.

Something happened and here we are in possibly the worst time for trying to secure a new rental house. Turns out

we really aren’t alone in this situation. Chatting to others and reading the news it seems that the Fraser Coast is at it’s lowest occupancy rate ever and there are many others having their homes sold while the market is going so strong.

We knew it wasn’t a great time to be looking for a new home but it didn’t hit hard until we went to the first viewing. It was impossible to miss the house as their was already a crowd of other hopefuls waiting in the front yard, plus others still sitting in their cars waiting to join them. Initially we weren’t too worried as we are excellent tenants; 13 years of renting with never a missed rental payment, only moving out when the previous homes and this place were going up for sale, and taking great care of the house (even doing maintenance and simple repair jobs ourselves).

Many rejected applications later we are discovering that this excellent history isn’t getting us over the line. It’s hard to compete when others are offering $50 or more per week than the asking price. That’s not an urban legend told by despondent and desperate tenancy hopefuls, it’s happened right in front of us as well as to a few friends in a similar situation.

So here we are, looking down the barrel at I don’t know what.

The six of us bunking in with friends, renting a vacant holiday house until we get a place or our returned bond runs out. So for a change my column isn’t ending on a hopeful or happy note, it’s ending stressed and sad as it is for many others at this moment. We’ve given up on finding a home, now we just want a place to live.

If anyone can offer assistance to David and his family to find a home, please email: editor@alivemag.com.au.

We would love to hear from you

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DOWNSIZE AND START TICKING OFF THE BUCKET LIST

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s house prices in many Australian centres begin to peak, asset-rich cash-poor downsizers are missing out on an opportunity to unlock their existing home equity and improve their lifestyle.

If downsizing the family home is on your bucket list, now there is more incentive to keep progressing on with that goal with brand new homes now available at over 50s lifestyle community, Ingenia Lifestyle Hervey Bay. Community sales manager, Anna Golden, said the lifestyle community is giving clients an opportunity to achieve their downsizing dream.

Ingenia Lifestyle’s land lease ownership model allowing purchasers to own a new home at a more affordable price point, giving downsizers the opportunity to free up their money.

“The very simple and transparent

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land lease ownership model means there’s no stamp duty to pay, body corporate, strata fees, exit or DMF fees.

With just one weekly site fee to cover our buyers have more confidence in knowing there are no surprises.

“Many lifestyle community residents are also able to access rental assistance, another added comfort each fortnight.

“Downsizers also have a lot more time to enjoy their new lifestyle with less cleaning and maintenance on their homes so they can start their next exciting chapter in life,” Anna said.

With brand new homes selling from $239,000 there is a real opportunity for you to downsize and free up your cash reserves and stay in your back pocket.

If downsizing is on your bucket list for 2021, contact the team at Ingenia Lifestyle Hervey Bay. For more information go to liveinherveybay. com.au or call 07 4183 8444.

A HAVEN FOR FISHOS

T

he Fraser Coast has a picturesque stretch of beaches rife with angling opportunities and is certainly famous for it. Hervey Bay and its neighbour Fraser Island are nothing short of a fishing haven thanks to the diversity of its waters and fish species.

Thanks to some awesome rainfall recently we should see some great fishing over the next few months.

Both inshore and on the offshore grounds should see some top action, so get out the bait and tackle and head out on the beautiful waters we are lucky to have here on our doorstep.

With plenty of different species on the bite, here’s where you might find a feed: Burrum

Grunter, whiting and flathead have made up the main catches in the Burrum River lately.

A few small jew can be found around Buxton Hole along with moses perch, trevally and a few tarpon.

The upper reaches have produced barra but they will taper off soon as we move

closer to winter. Out the front sweetlip,cod and blackall have been reported on the Burrum 8-Mile along with Mac tuna.

Sandy Strait

The Strait can see some excellent lure fishing with soft plastics this time of year.

Trevally, blue and thredfin salmon, grunter and flathead respond well to soft plastics and can be found in the holes, drains and deep snags in the creek systems in the Sandy Strait. If you are looking for a feed of whiting, walking the flats with live yabbies should produce a few sand whiting. In the town reaches of the Mary River, barramundi have been reported along with threadfin salmon.

Local Reefs

The local reefs have been producing some coral trout,sweetlip,blackall and squire of late. Live baits have been working well on the trout with water temps still up we should be catching trout until at least June.

Diver whiting should begin to show up once we get our first round of south westerly winds.

Early reports have not been good with

Th e B i g Catch

Andrew Chorley

water temps so high they may be late this year.

Wide Grounds

On the wide grounds, sharks have been frustrating anglers as they lose good fish to the tax man.

Moving along after landing a fish or two seems the only way to have some chance of getting a feed. Reports from the gutters have included coral trout, grass sweetlip, parrot,hussar and mixed trevally.

Over Break Sea Spit, coronation trout, red throats, parrot, hussar, reef jacks and red emperor have all been reported. Down over the Wide Bay Bar Spanish mackerel, cod, sweetlip and snapper have been in the mix.

Urangan Pier

Off the Urangan Pier Spanish mackerel, school mackerel, broad bar mackerel and queenfish have been reported. In the first channel whiting, bream, squid and flathead have been keeping anglers busy. Live baits have been working best with whole pike for flathead, small herring for bream and live yabbies on the whiting.

WHAT A VIEW: James Fox enjoyed a day out on the region’s beautiful waters with Hervey Bay Fly and Sportfishing, and even landed this solid longtail tuna.

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H

ome in my adolescence was the rustle of turned pages.

Words in books fed my envy of the unknown.

Those stories told me home looked like freshly baked, choc chip cookies after school. Family gatherings every Sunday. It looked like a Mum and Dad, a spare room, tv room, dinner tables always set.

I grew up in an insecure environment. Security was never known as a foster child and the world I discovered from local libraries established what I thought ‘HOME’ was.

I didn’t have anywhere to call home, and, in its absence, I built what I ‘thought’ it should be. I chased a dream.

So as a young, single mum walking into a hostel weeks before Christmas with a toddler on my hip, one suitcase, defeated … I hated myself. I had failed to create the dream. I was powerless, filled with sorrow and terror, I sat on the bed provided, my son next to me with his matchbox car, feeling a yo-yo of numb mindlessness and pure panic. I cried for a mother I did not know. I cried for what I wanted desperately – a home.

That Christmas we had a big lunch at the shelter.

The mix of people was astounding. Some had recently gotten out of jail and could not get accommodation, some had mental health battles, some were domestic violence survivors, some were alone, and some had children too.

I truly believed I was different. That I did not belong there, that I could not relate to these homeless people.

And yet, that Christmas Day as strangers cheered my son unwrapping his present from the shelter, as over our disposable dish’s life stories were shared, I felt something inside shift.

I know now that feeling had been hope. My journey to being curious about what I had always deemed ‘normal’ began. Home started to form a different image in my brain.

Now home is five children, a grandchild on the way, laughter, adventure, and acceptance.

It looks like a tiny little A-frame house on acreage, vegetable gardens, tank water and a pet pig called Savage.

It is filled with photos, art, termites and sometimes the chicken eating Lucy the python joins us. It is a single parent home with lots of rushing around and teamwork.

Cookies are usually burnt as the kids make them, Sundays are for dancing on the lounges and preparing for the week ahead, something is always broken, the volume is high, and my tribe are wild. It is dysfunctional, laughter, tears and safe.

It turns out home was not what I escaped to in the pages. It is what I manifested through hardships, lessons, failures, and the realisation that it is perfect to be perfectly imperfect. Home is laughter, tears, and safety to fall.

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“I feel so grateful our souls chose each other. 25 years of you being my mum - giving joy, inspiration and unconditional love.”

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I love you with all my heart & thankyou for all you do for our family. Keep smiling mum! Happy mothers day!”

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Our childhood was fun, loud and loving. Thank you for everything.”

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COMING HOME TO YOURSELF T

his month’s Life Chat invites some personal reflection.

Where are you right now?

I don’t mean, ‘Where are you right now?’ in the physical sense of your location, but rather I am wondering where you might be mentally and emotionally. Are you in one place in your body, while also in other places with your thoughts and feelings?

Our hectic lives, with the responsibilities of work, juggling family roles, maintaining relationships, caring for our children, and dreaming of hopes yet unfulfilled, pulls us in multiple directions.

Add to this list the pressure of having to do everything within tight timeframes - sometimes within only minutes or hours - and we find ourselves under a heavy mental and emotional load.

So, as I return to my opening question, ‘Where are you right now?’ I invite you to consider whether you have aspects of yourself, through your thoughts and feelings, in different places from where you actually are.

Are you worrying about one or more persons who are important to you?

Perhaps you are at home, but still thinking about what needs to be done at work tomorrow? Is there something you are thinking about, either from the

past or still to arise in the future, that draws you away from what you are doing right now?

In other words, are aspects of you, ‘away from home’, where ‘at home’ means being completely present within yourself, and focused on the current moment?

It is natural to care for others and plan for the future, yet unless we recognize the energy we consume in thoughts and feelings that distract us from ‘now’, we scatter ourselves like seeds on the wind.

At the end of each day, we wonder why we feel so exhausted. The answer can be simply put; it’s because we spread ourselves too thinly, and do not conserve the energy we need to live a vibrant, healthy life.

Believe me, I have been superb at worrying. If worrying over loved ones was a well-paid career, I’d have been a millionaire by the time I reached 40. However, with a couple of extra decades added to my life experiences, I have learned the folly of needless worry, and through training and meditation, conserve my energy much more efficiently than in the past.

The strategy I share in this column is straightforward. I call it ‘Coming Home to Yourself.’ Doing it at the end of each day, perhaps even in bed before you

sleep, is well worth the short time taken to compete it.

Step One: Assess where your thoughts and feelings are. Notice if you are still carrying concerns or worries.

Step Two: Notice what is your responsibility and under your control.

Promise yourself you will make a plan tomorrow and deal with these things when the time is right.

Step Three: Notice what is not under your influence and/or is not your responsibility. Surrender all of that.

Imagine a heavy cloak of concerns slips from your shoulders and falls to the ground behind you.

Step Four: Call all your energy home.

Imagine the energy you have left ‘scattered’ in each of those situations, returning to you. Feel yourself consolidating, feeling more centred and calmer. Mentally affirm, ‘I am centred and calm.’

This mind-rehearsal process allows you to re-group energies each day, let go all that is unhelpful for you to carry, and brings some peace of mind.

I hope that ‘Coming Home to Yourself’ is a strategy you find as worthwhile as I do.

Blessings, Michelle

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Alcoho l Reset Coach

Annabel Stewart

Alcohol Reset Coach www.annabelstewart.com.au

When I was a kid, we moved a lot. Dad was in the RAF and every couple of years we upped sticks and relocated – new home, new neighbourhood, new school, new friends.

I wasn’t a big fan of the constant schlep. Sure, I adapted and got good at picking up new accents and blending in, but I didn’t like it much. I wanted to be able to say: “Yeah, this home. I’ve lived here for years”.

I wanted to be in one of those cool girl gangs, where they had all been friends since they were babies, where their parents (or even grandparents) had been friends since forever, where they shared a look and a hairstyle and giggled at the same cultural references.

Moving was a minefield; stripy knee-high socks might be all the rage at one school and social death at another. It was exhausting!

Wanting to belong is such a powerful driver for humans living on planet earth. Being on the outer feels so awful because to our prehistoric survival brains it’s actual real castout-from-the-campfire death.

The need to find our tribe is at its

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BREAKING UP WITH BOOZE

most urgent when we’re teens, when we’re full of worries and hormones.

So, when we are feeling like the weirdest kid on the block, and someone hands us a glass of alcohol, it can seem like the solution to everything.

That feeling of all your cares floating away, of inhibitions relaxing … it’s like the answer to our teen-angst prayers (we don’t know or care at that age exactly what the neurotoxins are doing to our brains to depress those inhibitions). Plus, alcohol is forbidden to non-adults (therefore it’s cool and badass), plus it has that whiff of brimstone putting alcohol up there as the coolest, most easily available drug in town.

It certainly was for me at 14, unsure of myself and wanting to fit in after our latest move. The cool kids went to the pub and pretended to be 18 and drank Pernod and black (gag), so I wanted to too. And that urge to follow the crowd continued through my 20s and 30s, where drinking was the one constant for the cool girl gangs, whether it was girls’ night in with pepperoni pizza and gossip and cheap white, Hen’s Nights with ironic veils and L-plates and sticky shooters

or spa days with fluffy bathrobes and elegant champagne flutes. The common denominator, always, was alcohol.

I broke up with booze in my 40s because I finally realised alcohol wasn’t actually my bestie, helping me bravely laugh and cry my way through life. Alcohol was in reality a nasty two-faced frenemy who constantly stole from me (health, money, family time etc). I was terrified to start with.

Who even was I if I didn’t drink?

Was I still cool and fun? Or was I now boring and dull? I didn’t know how to do me, without drinking.

But what I found was the opposite of what I expected. I found a soberverse full of warmth and authenticity. I found that I got my life back, including my mornings, which I now treasure like rubies. And along the way, I found a bunch of fabulous, genuine, scatty, focussed, normal, cranky, loving human beings, who are just normal people who happen to not drink. But more than that, I found myself.

I’m finally home.

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inspiration

Alison’s Guidance this Month: To me, I define your home as your body and soul.

The best way to keep your home in order is to self - care. Keep your physical body tip top with nourishing food and exercise.

Keep your soul maintained with relaxation, meditation, and positive living. See you next month.

Capricorn

Jan 20 - Feb 18

You are wild at heart Aquarius! This month trust your inner wisdom because change is in the air. Know your intuition will lead you to where you need to go.

Trust that.

Pisces

Feb 19 - Mar 20

This month choose not to be pulled into dramas, or bickering, as that will limit your joy. Remove yourself from these situations and take the higher road.

Choose peace instead.

Aries

Mar 21 - April 19

May is the month for you to truly enjoy!

This month may bring in more clarity, creativity, and inspiration. So now is the time to bring any new projects or ideas to fruition. Have fun with it!

Taurus

April 20 - May 20

You really do shine when you spend time outdoors. This month, please make the effort to connect with mother nature. Being outdoors will help you with recharge, and focus. Go for a walk or visit the beach.

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Cancer

June 21- July 22

You are stronger than you think. Hold firm to what you believe in or are focusing on this month. You are on the right track, do not doubt your abilities. You’ve got this!

Dec 22 -Jan 19

This month, let go of all old patterning and expectations that have been weighing you down. Take the pressure off and find time to recharge It’s time for a change, don’t be so hard on yourself.

Aquarius

I n spi rat i o ns

May 21 - June 20

Leo

July 23 - Aug 22

There is change in the air this month Leo. It is time to shed the old you, and the outdated way of thinking. In other words, it is time to shed your skin. You are good enough, reveal your true self to the world, and shine!

Virgo

Aug 23 - Sept 22

Virgo you really are a gypsy spirit within.

Your life journey so far, may have had its ups and downs, but it has all contributed to your learning. Is it time to find a new direction in life? Or is it time to look inward for guidance. Trust that internal compass.

Libra

Sept - 23 - Oct 23

The moon has many phases, and so do you Libra. You can be highly intuitive, so this month take note of those internal messages. If things don’t seem right, you are probably correct. Don’t doubt your internal wisdom.

Scorpio

Oct 24 - Nov 21

This card symbolises peace and protection. This month, let go of the need to always be on the defensive, or to be right. You will be ok, now is the time to offer peace. Watch things change for the better when you do this.

Sagittarius

Nov 22 - Dec 21

This is the month to check in, connect with your desires, and ignite your passions. Is there a hobby or something you have had a burning interest in? This is the month to take it up. Good luck!

Have you been feeling sorry for yourself of late? To feel happy again, it is important to show gratitude. You have a good heart, so be grateful for the little things in life. Find opportunity for good deeds this month.

Alison Dunlop Kinesiologist. Find out more at: www.alisondunlopkinesiology.com.au (Guardian Cards - Angels and Ancestors by Kyle Gray)

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How I see the wo rld

ACT NOW TO SAVE OUR HOME Written by a year 9 student from St’ Mary’s College Maryborough

The impacts of climate change include more extreme weather and natural disasters, chronic droughts and economic instability. A year nine St Mary’s College student is taking an active role to help build a more sustainable planet. Here’s her thoughts.

Across the globe, climate change is a major threat for the survival of many species of plants and animals.

Carbon emissions are increasing the temperature of the earth, which is threatening the extinction of wildlife habitats.

Nations have established laws and legislations to reduce the impact of climate change and develop new technology that could complete tasks without damaging the environment.

However, the world is not approaching the climate change issue seriously and countries are just using this as publicity to create a good impression amongst other nations.

The temperature of the earth is still increasing and endangering the extinction of many species; however, the world is simply just leaving the huge problem behind.

Countries are caring more about their economic profits rather than climate change as resolutions to this issue such as green energy cost too much.

In 2011, all nations came together to produce and sign a climate change plan and as this proposal was signed

in Paris and was labelled the Paris agreement.

In the agreement, Brazil’s revised plan lacks updated goals to cut emissions by 2030, suggesting it will not put the country on a realistic path to carbon neutrality by 2060, a scientist said.

They also set on aim for global emissions to peak as soon as possible which warm the earth globally making it harder to decrease the effect of climate change.

Damage on wildlife creatures and habitats can be seen across the world as nations are still operating coal factories and producing greenhouse gases.

Changes are being completed slowly, which is not efficient to make the world cool down and this could take centuries for the environment to become stable.

Nations and world organisations are doing the slightest to stop this drastic issue and they are worrying about their economy.

However, countries are not focusing on the effects of climate change in the future.

This may devastate the world’s environment and could lead to threatening human’s existence.

Even now Climate change is taking a toll at economic and social challenges including energy shortages, damaged infrastructure, increasing losses to industry, heat-related mortality and illness, and scarcity of food and water.

Climate change is happening fast, and the world must come together and start improvising changes otherwise this effect will be seen drastically in the future.

Delaying action further would force global powers to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a magnitude that current technology and resources have not caught up with yet.

Climate change needs to be addressed as a relevant issue. It is often viewed as a distant problem in both time and prevalence to human’s existence.

I feel grief for all the wild natural places and creatures I love, now endangered; for the loss of seasons, for my children and grandchildren who will see creatures suffer utter calamity.

Disclaimer: The opinions or views expressed in this column has been researched by the author, not Alive Magazine, and is for general information purposes only.

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Reluctance to move up and down stairs, hesitating to jump up or onto things that was once a breeze and the reduction and intolerance to exercise.

In cats, we commonly will see a reduction in grooming and in dogs an excessive licking of effective joints.

What can you do at home to help?

• W eight Control: This is extremely important when trying to help slow the progression.

• Supplements: Things with glucosamine chondroitin, green-lipped mussel and omega-3 fatty acids.

• Exercise: Maintaining movement is very important as this helps keep joints from seizing up.

• A round the house: Providing non-slip ramps to help get into and out of cars or on and off of their beds. Providing well padded bedding, raised off the cold ground away from cold drafts is not only beneficial for their joints but helps with those unsightly pressure calluses.

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