Welcome to FLM From the FLM team
From our readers
Issue 27 and moving towards 2019 at speed! Here’s hoping 2019 is as surprising, rewarding and enlightening as 2018!
Hi Petra, Thank you so much for taking the time to put together this beautiful editorial. It really reflects the essence of who Greg and I are and how we live our lives. We both love and resonate with the headline ‘Attitude of Gratitude’ as this has been our family motto and one we practise daily.
If you don’t read anything else in this issue (though we urge to to absorb it all), be sure to take in ‘Home’ by Annabel Bowles — especially if you are a Fleurieu local. At just twenty-one this young woman has travelled the world and come back loving where she lives even more. In her story ‘Home’ she reflects on all of her experiences with wisdom well beyond her years. Annabel started out with us as an intern, but has grown in leaps and bounds and has recently been appointed editor of the UniSA student magazine, Verse. Last year our advertising manager Holly Wyatt completed issue one with us as a newcomer to FLM and to publishing. Our summer issue last year was our biggest ever, so Holly went in at the deep end and emerged with the expertise of someone who has been working in the industry for years. As she celebrates one year with the magazine we cannot begin to explain the myriad of ways in which this kind and creative, yet tenacious soul has influenced the magazine. First for her stellar gifts with our clients; I was out the other night and someone said to me; ‘I just love Holly.’ We concur. Holly is a fantastic sales rep, but she is also insightful, caring and committed to everything she puts her heart and her hand to. In her limited spare time while wrangling a toddler, she has even put her hand up to help rejuvenate the languishing Myponga Town Hall. Read about it on page 70. Thanks Holly! Jason, our designer, is still explaining to us the importance of high quality photography and design. It is this eye for detail that makes us proud to be the purveyors of this fine publication. After taking maternity leave and staying at home to care for her growing family, our editor Esther Thorn is also back on board, casting her keen eye over our content. Great to have her back! Esther cares about the magazine and its content a lot and her insights are invaluable. Thanks to Nicola Gage and Kate LeGallez for stepping in, in her absence. This year our publishing editor Petra de Mooy participated in the Fleurieu Future Leaders Program. ‘It is impossible to encapsulate what we learned in a sentence or two, but it was so much more enriching than I could have anticipated,’ she says. Thank you Charles and Janice Manning and the twenty participants. Brave and talented people one and all.
When we met I wasn’t aware that you and Jason are the coowners of the magazine and now knowing this I feel even more privileged that you spent so much time with us. I am definitely in awe of your bravery and commitment to bring your vision to life. FLM is an extremely beautiful, stylish and thoughtful publication that showcases our region at its best — an absolute credit to your professionalism and entrepreneurship. Sharing our story has taken a great deal of courage on my part. It has definitely challenged me as I am (historically) a very private person. This process has required me to expose myself emotionally, to be vulnerable and to relinquish control; to trust. Thank you for the care and respect you, Jason, Marcus and Rob have shown us throughout this process. Regards Jen Each issue we send out a few Q&As to local business owners. Some of that content appears in editorials but here are a few titbits that we couldn’t fit it: Richard Angove — Angove Wines: We often use the term ’seriously relaxed’. We are serious about grape growing and winemaking but at the end of the day when it comes to experience we want our customers to be seriously relaxed. Shana Dunn – Port Burger: The incredible produce and landscape of the Fleurieu is inspiring and the community connections that have been built and respected allow our crew to develop skills and be creative. We love all of South Australia and what it has to offer and have hopefully added a little bit more. Loren Kate – Cooee Arthouse: The word ‘Cooee’ originates from the Dharug people in NSW which means ‘come here’ and that is my vision for Cooee, a community meeting place. A place to enjoy accessible and affordable concerts, films and workshops with like minds.
With all of this to give thanks for we wish you all the best for the summer season and here’s to a top notch 2019! Celebrate with some local wine.
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