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‘scape perspective What we’re reading... Ten things you didn’t know about Daisy Chains & Desert Boots co-organiser Jacqui Stewart LEGENDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME Bruce Eva, Peter Ryan and Nick Bowen 10Q Slattery Media Group, rrp $39.95 ASMANIAN football Tfans are delighted Who inspires you? serious illness didn’t exist so everyone that the state currently would get their chance to live their has provided three of the 1 The people I work with at Wet dreams. 24 AFL Hall of Fame Hairdressing. They make doing what I legends — Darrel love so much easier just by being there. Do you have a favourite place? Baldock, Peter Hudson and Ian Stewart. But What are you reading and how do 7Rome, as soon as we arrived I instantly knew it was a place I could live. there is another, 2 you like to relax and wind down perhaps better known It’s such a beautiful city, with at the weekend? identity, who probably breathtaking scenery. Among many, many other women right earned his place now, I’ve just finished reading 50 Shades Most embarrassing moment? because of his remarkable coaching exploits. The great Roy ‘‘Up There’’ Cazaly was an outstanding of Grey. I like to wind down by eating out 8 Getting petrol and only realising or catching up with family and friends. player with St Kilda and South Melbourne but made afterwards I left my wallet at home. a huge impact on Tasmanian football. This is one of the intriguing facts brought to light by the What thing couldn’t you live What has been a defining recently published Legends of the Australian 3 without and what are your three 9moment in your life? favourite things? Football Hall of Fame. Written by journalists Bruce To look back now and see what Eva, Peter Ryan and Nick Bowen and edited by I could not live without summer and the I have achieved so far with Geoff Slattery, the book brings to life many of the fun that it brings. Shopping, holidaying, my hairdressing greats, such as Ted Whitten, Bob Skilton, Dick festivities. qualification, travel Reynolds, Ron Barassi, Jock McHale and Leigh Matthews. However, there was one disappointment If you could invite anyone to and the all the people I’ve for this reader. Eagerly looking for some of the on- 4 dinner, who would it be and what field deeds of Jack ‘‘Captain Blood’’ Dyer, he was would you eat? been able to meet along disappointed that the accent was on his football I would definitely have to say my rellies in the way. commentating. America, it’s been way too long since I’ve PETER LYONS seen them and I would eat anything my What Aunt is willing to cook me. 10do you 1001 AUSSIE CRACK-UPS daydream about? Scholastic, rrp $9.99 What do you know now that you Being back in 5 wish you had known before? Santorini, HAT’S the difference Setting life goals earlier, so you know relaxing at the Wbetween brussels what you’re working towards. beach without sprouts and snot? No kid If you had a magic wand, what a worry in will eat brussels sprouts. 6 would you wish for? the world. How does Santa stop his A place where medical conditions and sleigh? He just pulls on the reins, deer. Which Australian poet was highly strung? Banjo Paterson. This regular Aussie joke book uses funds raised to support Camp Quality, so it is really worth buying Aussie gem sparkles and having a bit of old-fashioned clean-joke fun. There are loads of dad jokes and plenty of specialty Aussie corkers, some as old as the hills and some a bit newer. Even if you groan at the same time, THE SAPPHIRES Naturally funny, O’Dowd also you’ll probably still laugh, which the book’s Director: Wayne Blair gets a chance to stretch his foreword tells us can be as good as 15 minutes of Stars: , drama chops and, with Gail, jogging if we do it 100 times a day. . creates a love story that CHLOE HOPE Rating: PG doesn’t feel cheesy or forced. MONG the hundreds of The Sapphires focuses on the SHEEP ON A BEACH films released each year, girls’ personal lives — their P Crumble and Danielle McDonald Aevery once in a while you bickering, dreams and falling in Scholastic Australia, rrp $13.99 happen upon a gem. love — instead of the politics The Sapphires, true to its of the time, which are OLLOW fun- name, is one of them. referenced, but don’t take Floving Sheep as centre stage. Inspired by a true story, it’s he goes on an also a proudly Australian story It’s based on a stage adventure to the and follows four young production written by Tony beach. This Aboriginal women, who in Briggs, whose mother was one colourful children’s 1968 are flown to the war- of the women who inspired the book, written by zones of South Vietnam to story and who co-wrote the P Crumble and perform for American troops. screenplay with Keith illustrated by Directed by Wayne Blair, it’s the cheeky Cynthia (Miranda beautiful regardless of whether Thompson. Danielle filled with an infectious energy Tapsell) and lead singer Julie you understand the language McDonald, takes The soundtrack is a pumping and soul classics that will (pop star Jessica Mauboy, or not. the reader step by step through the sheep’s day in collection of soul classics like make you want to buy the showing off some stunning the sun. It slowly builds the story with rhyming text However none of the four What A Man, I Can’t Help soundtrack. vocals). and lively and engaging illustrations. From the first outshine any of the others. Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey page, ‘‘Sheep. Sheep on a beach’’, the young Unlike many musicals that are Making up the fourth vital They all sparkle just as bright Bunch) and a gorgeous reader is drawn in by the simple and repetitive over-the-top and camp (not ingredient of The Sapphires is alongside Bridesmaids’ Chris rendition of Who’s Loving You, storyline and what a day at the beach can entail. necessarily in a bad way), The the girls’ fair-skinned cousin O’Dowd as Dave Lovelace, a as well as an original toe- Sapphires feels more realistic. It’s a good look at Australian culture and our love Kay (). down-on-his-luck Irish tapping single by Mauboy for the sand between our toes and then dipping While its authenticity brings to She delivers some of the film’s musician with a passion for called Gotcha. them in the cool water. It even has a reference to light issues like war and more powerful moments — soul music who discovers the Heartfelt and feel-good, it’s today’s techy times — ‘‘Ewes all come down to the racism, the overall tone taking over singing from a girls. hard not to get caught up in beach. Tweet!’’ The book ends with the sheep remains irrepressibly upbeat distraught Julie in a war O’Dowd’s charming soul man the story of The Sapphires,so asleep under a tree, dreaming about a beach. It’s and celebratory. hospital, defending her cousins has a great scene explaining to here’s hoping Australia will a cute book that will draw your little person in from Perfectly cast, it stars Deborah before armed Vietnamese them why, ‘‘90% of recorded embrace this very special film. the first page. Mailman (TV’s Offspring)as locals and taking part in an music is shite. The other 10% Gail, the bossy older sister to indigenous ceremony that’s is soul’’. CARIS BIZZACA ANGELA SUTTON

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