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RIGHT TURN FREO’S HAPPY HANG-OUT MAGAZINE Bree plus » The former superhero BEACH is flying high once more. ROS BUDDIES, Maddox MODEL THOMAS MOVES & The Perth hotelier is SUPER ‘I’ve never SEMILLON understood the eagerly awaiting her SOUGHT-AFTER CONSUMERS relationship between baby’s arrival. But her joy man and lawn.’ is tinged with sorrow. plus » GLORIOUS GREVILLEAS, SUPER SAVVY, SUMMER STYLE & ANIMAL STORIES Sophisticated, smart, family-minded and socially aware, your magazine embodies the best and brightest in intelligent pleasure. Whether feature your passion is food or fashion, HEN HE WAS SEVEN , or After years in the wilderness, Michael Keaton is back on maybe eight, Michael Keaton discovered that showing o6 top of the Hollywood heap. The former caped crusader could save his skin. During a tells Robbie Collin why he was happy to play a has-been. whether you’re a gardener or a slow afternoon at his Catholic school in Pennsylvania, Keaton was whispering to the boy next to him. “Whatever it was, I guess I Hollywood actor who is directing and starring in about it today in Fortune magazine.” was getting in a little bit of trouble,” he says. “And a Broadway play of his own devising in one last, His father’s family emigrated to the US from the the nun called me on it. She said ‘Stand up’. So I midlife-crisis-triggered swing at respectability. Scottish Borders in the 19th century, and his real stood up. And she said ‘Do you want to share what During a disastrous preview, Riggan slips outside surname, which he doesn’t use professionally for you’re talking about with the rest of the class?’ for a cigarette but the stage door snaps shut, obvious reasons, is Douglas. He once told Michael reader, whether you want to find And I said ‘Not really’. And she replied ‘Well, if snagging his dressing gown, along with the last Parkinson that by the time he went pro the name you’re so keen on being entertaining, why don’t remaining scraps of his dignity. The only way back Michael Douglas had already been registered with you sing a song?’” on stage is through the streets. Equity twice over. “One of them I hear is doing Now 63, Keaton still remembers feeling Keaton really did march through Times Square quite well, and the other is making cheap porn trapped by the spotlight. “Weirdly, for someone in his underpants for the scene, which was shot movies,” he said. “Like Basic Instinct.” who wanted to be funny, I didn’t like a lot of about 2am, when the crowds were more navigable: Throughout our chats, Keaton is in talk-show out more about interesting Western attention. I remember standing there and my face aside from extras lining his route, the shocked mode, gags and anecdotes at the ready. Only one turning beetroot red.” Then suddenly, he Mgured faces and ]ashing phone cameras are real. It is an word I say brings him to a stop: comeback. I ask it out. “I realised she thought by telling me to sing electriMed, daredevil sequence, particularly for him if he thinks this Mlm feels like one. “No,” he that she’d got me, and the only way to beat her an actor whose recent roles often have felt like replies. “But it’s OK if you do.” He explains this was to do it and enjoy it. So I didn’t just sing Baa, “remember me” cameos. Compared with the rest doesn’t qualify because, even though it has been Baa, Black Sheep. I totally committed to it.” of Birdman, though, it doesn’t feel unusually bold. more than Mve years since his last lead role, he has Australians or international achievers The classroom went into uproar. The young The whole Mlm is a streak in public. been keeping busy. “Very small moves, a jab here, Keaton sat down, grinning from ear to ear, and That is because the character Keaton plays a punch there. Just setting up the opponent.” a strange thought occurred that has stayed with is the former star of an enormously successful Eclectic is probably the best word for these him ever since. When all eyes are trained on you, superhero movie franchise called Birdman: 20 Mlms. To continue the boxing metaphor, two vulnerability can be the best form of protection. years ago Riggan Thomson quit after Mlm number were real haymakers: Toy Story 3 and The Other He pauses and thinks, biting the lower of those three, and his career foundered and never picked Guys, a cop comedy with Will Ferrell and Mark famous Cupid’s-bow lips. “David Letterman used up. Birdman himself was invented by Inarritu, Wahlberg in which Keaton steals every scene he Weirdly, for someone or whether you’re after just a bit of to say ‘I wasn’t the class clown but I wrote for him’ although for anyone who has seen Keaton in Tim is in. But the others are not what you would call and that’s exactly it,” he continues. “You want to Burton’s two Batman movies, the gru6 voice, CV toppers, and Keaton hasn’t watched a frame who wanted to be be known to be funny without having it pointed black cape and beaky mask may ring a bell. of them. He has watched Birdman all the way out. I don’t think twice about taking my clothes Birdman is emphatically not a Keaton biopic — through, though, and is about to watch it again. funny, I didn’t like a o6 and running through Times Square but I don’t for one thing, Riggan has telekinetic powers and I ask if it stung his pride to have a respected want people knowing anything about me.” starts the Mlm cross-legged and levitating three Mlmmaker approach him with a script about a lot of attention. fun or a more in-depth article, we’ve Keaton’s comment on public nudity in the feet o6 the ]oor of his dressing room. But it clacks middle-aged has-been giving it one last shot. centre of New York City isn’t a Mgure of speech. the lives of its star and protagonist together like “No, no,” he says. “I didn’t take it personally In fact, it is the centrepiece of Birdman, the new jumper leads, just for the spark-]ying fun of it. because it wasn’t pitched to me that way at all.” Mlm from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (21 Grams), And in this bizarre, complex role, Keaton is better A brief pause. “Although I have to admit I’m an in which Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a fading than he has ever been. actor and I was in Batman, and this thing’s called I speak with Keaton twice: once in person, on Birdman and it’s about an actor, and a bird is like the day before Birdman’s world premiere at the a bat. But I’m sure if he had any sense at all, he got you covered. Venice Film Festival, and three months later by thought about Mve or six di6erent guys for the telephone from Toronto, where he is shooting role.” Another pause. “I mean, I would’ve.” Spotlight with Rachel McAdams and Mark Ru6alo. Except, of course, Inarritu didn’t. “There was no In Venice, we meet on the beach terrace of the other option,” he tells me later. “He was the one.” Hotel Excelsior. He is followed by a cluster of Inarritu recalls sending Keaton the script with photograph takers and autograph hunters, who his heart in his throat, and arranging a dinner so are kept o6 the terrace by the hotel sta6. they could discuss it. “I was absolutely honest with Keaton starts ricng straight away, not about him,” Inarritu says. “I told him ‘I can count on my Birdman, but about the Scottish independence Mngers the number of guys who have worn that Delivered with WA’s leading referendum, then due to take place in just under a cape, and you are the pioneer. Only you have the Hot seat Michael month’s time. “My God,” one of the Mlm’s PRs told ability to do the drama and comedy that I need Keaton is back me earlier, “he’s obsessed. He was watching last for this Mlm. Only you have that authority’. And he in the winner’s circle. PICTURE night’s debate on the news and has been reading said yes that night.” h TAYLOR JEWEL/ newspaper The Weekend West , INVISION/AP 17.01.15 westweekend 11 10 17.01.15 westweekend WEST WEEKEND magazine enables advertisers to connect with an exclusive and involved audience in a unique lifestyle environment. WEST WEEKEND magazine is one of the most kept and read sections in The Weekend West %-'f] The Weekend West readers say their household retains and reads WEST WEEKEND over the weekend and/or during the following week.*

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ROS THOMAS ‘Nan called it luncheon meat Letter of the week and marvelled at its durability.’ WIN DECEMBER 6(7 2014 I hope Rob Broad, eld doesn’t take any with what he says or his recommendations The writer of the ROBERT DREWE of the negative comments to heart (Your but that is my own opinion. Here’s a hint to your ‘The children were much letter judged the cleverer than DISCERNING Take your pick the adults.’ Say, 6/12). It is obvious from the number all those who dislike his writing: don’t read best in January say of people writing in that his column is it. Keep up the great work Rob. I’m sure wins a dinner for OUTSIDE SABRINA HAHN widely read and enjoyed by many. I know you will be getting plenty of hate mail in four with Vasse FESTIVE I’m going to probably get a bunch of hate the weeks and months to come. People are Felix wines at FEVER mail just for writing this but I thoroughly always quick to criticise, so don’t take it to Mosman’s, to the Get in the spirit with fabulous plus » frocks and great gift ideas. LAST-MINUTE MAKEOVERS, GOOD WILL & value of $700. SUPER SPARKLES enjoy his section. I may not always agree heart. Scott Banister-Jones, Nedlands There’s a glorious grevillea for every garden. Overlooking the Swan River, Grevilleas would have to be one of the select a wider variety because di9 erent Jeez, people, would you give Rob Broadfi eld I always read I Love This Photo but I found Ros Thomas’ article really struck a chord this beautiful most versatile plant groups in Australia. characteristics of selected species have a break? I love his witty summary of the this one particularly touching. Rosemarie with my husband and me. Although I grew restaurant With more than 340 di9 erent species and been crossed and some ripper plants patrons, decor and ambience — and the Williams, we have so much in common. Like up in England and he in rural WA, our specialises in countless cultivars, they range from small have been created. The folks at Kings Park spicier the better! In fact, I only read his you, I was born in 1951. My father migrated memories of luncheon meat/polony are superb seafood AUDIENCE ground covers to tall rainforest trees. Many Botanic Gardens are doing amazing work column for that bit and tend to skim over from Britain as a young man in the 1920s. similar. After the war, especially in England, and is open of them are short lived — up to 20 years — with our grevilleas and I can’t wait to see the the review of the food. His sharp, pithy take He met my mother, the daughter of a British food was scarce and Fray Bentos luncheon for lunch and but they pack a mighty punch while they’re hybrids that come out of that research. on a restaurant is delightful and funny. I look immigrant farmer, in Queensland during meat was considered something of a luxury. dinner. See here. Grevilleas are an important food source at the score fi rst and if it’s really low, I know World War II when he was serving in the It came in an oblong tin with a little key that mosmans. Grevilleas belong to the Proteaceae group for small marsupials and birds that feed it is going to be particularly biting. Love AIF. During an impoverished childhood on you wound around the top to open it, which com.au. of plants, which includes banksias, hakeas, on the nectar. Most grevilleas need free- your work, Rob — don’t change a thing. a dairy farm in Queensland, I remember often went crooked and broke o[ at the last dryandras and many South African plants. draining soil and full sun. The fi ner-leafed Lynette Bartley, Bunbury the annual show as a special treat. turn. Stephanie Holthouse, Cookernup This means they have the ability to extract spider fl owering types are usually hardier The wonderful I Love This Photo of the Bobbie Oliver, North Perth Ros’ eating habits were pretty much on a the very small amounts of phosphorus in 1950s family (6/12) was a treat, especially My mum found the ultimate gourmet par with mine when polony knobs, plastic Australian soils, important to know when as we baby boomers are thriving on a wave luncheon meat in garlic parizer — looked cheese and French onion dip were the you are growing them in your garden. PLANT NOW Feverfew, echinacea, of nostalgia. Equally compelling was Ros the same but aahhh, the taste! Hacked o[ order of the day. But my most vivid (and There are three main fl oral forms of Thomas’ Bite Your Tongue. I was transported in big fat wedges and sandwiched between worst) memory is of tinned camp pie with grevillea — spider, brush and toothbrush. impatiens, calendula, dahlia, back to 1959 and the Monday lunch queue spongy white sliced bread with lashings of its mushy “meat” and who knows what There is such an array of colour schemes outside the church hall opposite Bicton butter and a scrape of hot English mustard else, bound together with thick, gluggy Winner judged from boronia, corea, hakea and scaevola. Primary School. Aproned volunteers at current entries and now, and each year more new hybrids or fruit chutney was to die for. We weren’t gelatine. The only way I got it down was by notified by phone. appear, so you will easily fi nd one to suit trestle tables served horseshoe bread allowed the plastic cheese. Mum said it was swamping it in tomato sauce. Next time I’m Employees of The West rolls with a choice of polony and tomato Australian and their your soil type, height and colour. for the WA climate, apart from the larger Petite is a small spreading made from bits o[ the fl oor in the cheese at the supermarket I must see if it’s still on immediate families sauce or polony and salad. To my profound factory. Jill Ilott, Scarborough the shelves. K. Fisher, Karrinyup are ineligible to enter. PEOPLE WA has an amazing number of species toothbrush and brush species that grow up shrub with soft-pink-turning- Entrants’ details will be disappointment, the polony and sauce in all three fl owering types to suit every in the Kimberley and inland. white fl owers from early autumn to late Spoilt for We would love to hear from you. used for marketing. See choice Pick a was sold out but, to my fi ve-year-old WAN privacy policy condition. The most important factor to A couple of newer grevilleas that will spring. Growing to only 20cm in height, Please send letters to the editorto westweekend @wanews.com.au or Letters, West Weekend, Newspaper House, at thewest.com.au/ grevillea that amazement, my longed-for roll tasted even consider is where it grows naturally. Many make an appearance this month are GPO Box D162, Perth WA 6840. Letters should be 200 words or less and must contain writer’s full name, home privacypolicy. it is ideal for the smaller garden or verge. suits your better with salad! Alison Vigne, Denmark address and day phone number. They may be edited for purposes of clarity or space. of the Kimberley and desert species will Grevillea Tucker Time Peach Blush and G. The foliage is an attractive soft, grey-green patch. struggle in Perth. The same can be said for lavandulacea Pinky Petite. Peach Blush is a colour. This hybrid originates from coastal the tropical Eastern States species. compact small shrub to 20cm, with peach/ South Australia and is well suited to WA WEST WEEKEND has a strong focus Hybridising has helped gardeners red/yellow spider-shaped fl owers. Pinky conditions.

What Q This plant is this sprang up in a ask sabrina PLANT? pot. I have since on people – people who aren’t simply planted it into the Q Where can I buy garden worms? I have A The bad news is that your hubby needs ground as it seemed turned an aquarium into a 7 ower box to get a long-handled spade and saw to cut to be growing rapidly. It is as my whole area is paved. I < rst put in the plant out. Once you get a really bad about 65cm tall, grown in just 22cm of potting mix, followed with a layer infestation of scale it is almost impossible a year. Is it a tree or a shrub? of fresh green leaves, then more potting to get rid of and can spread to the rest of Pam Standen, Boddington mix on top. I need to put in some worms. the garden. The scale will be attached famous for being famous, but who A This is a seed-grown Albert Van Leeuwen, Perth to the root system. Dig it out, get fresh Grevillea robusta from the A I have never seen garden worms for compost to put in the holes and leave subtropics of Queensland. It sale, only composting worms. These the spot dormant for a few weeks, then grows to 15=20m with large would be suitable for a converted replant with something diG erent. orange @ owers. It is used as aquarium. It is important to provide Q Six years ago I planted a Eureka lemon a rootstock for many of the drainage so that you don’t harbour tree on our street verge and it’s grown Q I saw this plant in a friend’s garden and have something to say. From those standard grevilleas but the bacterial diseases — the base of the vigorously. However, the lemons seem thought it was alstroemeria — so I planted seed can travel far. If you aquarium should be lined with pebbles or to take much longer to ripen. It’s well a few bulbs in my garden. However, it has don’t have room for such a the hydroponic clay pebbles. I would add mulched and watered, manured and fed taken oQ faster than a weed. Can you tell large tree I would remove it vermiculite rather than leaf material and trace elements twice yearly but it’s a bit me what it is and if it’s worth keeping? now. They are beautiful but make your potting mix more cocopeat exposed to our prevailing westerlies which Pat Dunn, Floreat than soil. There are plenty of composting suit being grown in a forest or could carry some salt. Alistair, Albany A This is an Alstroemeria psittacina and worm suppliers — if you Google among many trees. A The summer heat has been very slow in is regarded as an environmental weed in making a splash in the local arts and “composting worms Perth” you will C nd coming, which may account for the slow NSW, Victoria and WA. It has become a your nearest supplier. ripening period of lemons. There is not problem in the South-West, growing along Q We have a jolly “mongrel” scale that much we can do other than be patient. creek beds and damp areas in jarrah is taking a lot of time and patience to I would also hose down the foliage of the forests. It will run thoughout the garden eradicate. We have tried white oil, eco-oil, tree fortnightly to get the salt crystals oG and I would remove it as soon as possible. Malathion and < nally bit the bullet and the leaf tissue — citrus have very little salt The new hybrids do not have weed business communities, to rising sports cut it right back, and once again sprayed. tolerance. potential and are quite safe to plant. We live in Broome, hence trying to do Send your questions to Sabrina at [email protected]. these jobs while down in Perth at present. Due to the volume of questions, answers may take many weeks and not all questions will be answered. 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heartbeat (tachycardia), and you can be clear caffeine of posing any major health Kicking the habit sure it’s because they’ve been drinking too risk when taken in moderation. However, if much caffeine. Nervousness, irritability and consumed in excess, health risks certainly Most caffeine junkies don’t realise they are physically dependent on caffeine until they try anxiety (“coffee jitters”) are other telltale rise. One of the difficulties with caffeine to go without. If you go cold turkey for a day side effects of excess caffeine. studies is that it’s hard to isolate caffeine or two, you may find yourself with a headache Some people never notice any side from other problem-causing habits. Studies that is sometimes accompanied by nausea. You effects — that is, until they have to go repeatedly find that many heavy coffee may feel a little nervous or shaky and you may QUALITY without. For some, going camping or drinkers are also heavy smokers, drink more be tired, yawning and unable to concentrate. fasting for a blood test is all they need to than a moderate amount of alcohol and Symptoms are the worst on the first two days. They usually subside four to seven days after get hit by caffeine withdrawal. You get have high levels of stress. stopping, but are often bad enough to prompt the massive headache that doesn’t go heavy caffeine users to return to drinking their away and incredible tiredness, and while Brittle bones favourite caffeine-containing brew. The best this might only last for a couple of days, High intakes of caffeine promote the loss way to reduce your caffeine intake is to cut back it’s bad enough to send you screaming of calcium by “dragging” calcium out of the gradually and allow your body to adapt without for a coffee fix (which works quickly and body via the urine. If you continually overdo going into withdrawal. effectively). Other people get warning signs caffeine, your bones will eventually suffer, STEP 1 from caffeine habituation, which is what which may predispose you to osteoporosis Start on a weekend or on holiday when you the experts call that addictive quality of in later life. The results of several studies won’t be under pressure. EDITORIAL caffeine — they don’t go so far as to use reveal, however, that this applies when STEP 2 the word “addiction”. calcium intake is already low; coffee Begin by replacing one or two cups a day with For me, two coffees in a row is enough posed no increased threat to women who tea, herbal tea, coffee substitute (made from caffeine to get my heart seriously beating, consumed at least one glass of milk a day. roasted barley, chicory or dandelion root), or decaffeinated coffee. In particular, replace the and make my stomach unhappy. I just don’t coffee you’d normally have in the late afternoon go there anymore. Ulcers or evening that could interfere with your sleep. Caffeine increases the amount of acid Alternatively, switch to tea instead of coffee Heart problems produced by the stomach, which can irritate as this will approximately halve your caffeine Anyone with a pre-existing heart condition the stomach lining or worsen any existing intake. should be very cautious about consuming ulcers. Cutting back is a good idea here. STEP 3

TOBY WILKINSON TOBY too much caffeine. In 1999, a 25-year-old Drink more water. woman died from caffeine-induced cardiac STEP 4 arrhythmia after consuming a “natural Keep cutting back FOR A energy” guarana health drink containing a each day until you high concentration of caffeine. This is an edited drink no more ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION extract from than four cups of Birth defects Catherine Saxelby’s instant coffee or Complete Food and one cappuccino until 2004, its use was wide enough for one cup is enough to keep them awake at Researchers are divided on the dangers of Some people Nutrition Companion (espresso) a day. the International Olympic Committee to night, or even set them on edge. consuming caffeine during pregnancy; the (Hardie Grant, $45), hit &miss studies are not conclusive and most reports out on June 18 never notice routinely test for caffeine on the basis that During pregnancy, it’s probably wise any side excessive intake is considered an artificial to limit caffeine to the equivalent of one That caffeine high can come enhancement. Caffeine also triggers the or two cups of instant coffee (about 150 effects — release of fatty acids into the bloodstream, milligrams) a day. Reports of caffeine at a cost, writes nutritionist that is, until which provides an alternative fuel to causing miscarriages or low birth weight DISCERNING glycogen and partially explains its ability to in babies have not been supported with Catherine Saxelby. they have to quieten hunger. moderate consumption levels, but may go without. Caffeine is absorbed into the occur if the intake of caffeine is high. CAFFEINE IS A NATURAL STIMULANT bloodstream within an hour of These days, it’s not just coffee and tea found in varying amounts in coffee, guarana, consumption, and metabolised within you need to watch. Caffeine turns up in tea, cocoa and chocolate. It is also added three to seven hours. It is not stored by some surprising places, including energy to cola soft drinks, energy drinks and many the body, but passes out via the urine. The drinks like Red Bull or V, and chocolate anti-sleep tablets. coffee you have at an afternoon break is bars or corn chips with guarana (the Chemically, caffeine is a methylxanthine unlikely to keep you awake at night, but chief ingredient being caffeine, despite compound that acts on the central nervous drinking one just before bed probably will. being marketed as “natural caffeine” and system, speeding up the heartbeat and rate supposedly “safe”). AUDIENCE of breathing, dilating blood vessels (except Your daily fix in the brain) and relaxing smooth muscles. On a daily basis, most people can handle Don’t overdo it It boosts alertness and concentration and 300 milligrams of caffeine without Those who drink coffee all day may well overcomes the perception of fatigue — all experiencing any significant health be suffering caffeine overload, but a key reasons for its enduring popularity in our problems (this is equivalent to four cups of tolerance to caffeine can build up over time fast-paced world. instant coffee or three shots of espresso — and many people are able to ingest large Caffeine postpones exhaustion and a standard latte, short black or cappuccino amounts without noticing problems. But enhances physical performance effectively, has one shot). However, some people are others will complain of things like insomnia, and is commonly used by athletes. Up very sensitive to caffeine and find that just an upset stomach, heartburn and a rapid

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THIS re wind MONTH QUALITY Animal nous IN 1961 Ready for take-o, THE OTHER SIDE ROBERT DREWE The youngest US president , John F. FOOD ROB BROADFIELD Kennedy, takes o- ce, later delivering these famous words at the fi rst live televised AS SOMEONE WHO LIKES to live in Paul Buompadre, “This opens the way presidential press conference. “Let every nation know, A PREDICTION: 2015 will be the year backs when one can cop a look at oneself a natural beige — well salted, whipped and species harmony with our animal friends not only for other Great Apes, but also whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any Australia reaches Peak Beard. Hipsters will many, many times a night and think “My lightly irrigated on the plate with a bright, — give or take brown snakes on the for other sentient beings who are unfairly price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support shave facial hair and start wearing socks. God, that product is so holding my man fruity olive oil. Good bread had been veranda — I’ve been greatly impressed by and arbitrarily deprived of their liberty in any friend or oppose any foe in order to assure the They’ll put their fi xie in the garage and take bun just right.” charred on the grill. the current drive towards closer human zoos, circuses, water parks and scientifi c survival and success of liberty. This much we pledge the car. Even the hipsters’ close cousin, the There are a lots of beards at Propeller in Mussels, clams, sherry, ham did what and wildlife rapport. laboratories.” and more.” He is assassinated two years later. lumbersexual — an inner-urban chap with North Fremantle. But as far as we can tell it said on the tin and its description was Take the recent attempts to have I’m not sure where a 27-year-old a beard bushy enough to hide his adze in, they’re more hetero-scruJ y than hipster anarchically brief — just four nouns. Five EDITORIAL chimpanzees and orang-utans legally self-claimed environmentalist named THE KING REIGNS the wistful gaze of a misunderstood poet, because there are no bare ankles or cooler- years ago that dish would have read recognised as people. A US animal rights Paul Rosolie stands on this question, but strong workboots, a taste for craft beer than-thou vibes in the venue. Propeller something like “Hand-dived, southern group claimed that a chimp named there’s no doubt he wants greater human and sporting lumberjack plaid — will take is cool but nice, too. Friendly, buzzy, fun. fresh Rockingham mussels with Cloudy Tommy was “unlawfully imprisoned” contact with anacondas — to the extent OVER THE CHARTS the razor to his chops. They do, however, make ironic jaR es for Bay clams, Spanish-style Kurobuta ham, in a private zoo. Tommy’s attorney of being eaten alive by one. As predictions go, it’s pretty fl imsy — breakfast. Hmmmm. tossed though a sherry and organic stock The King of Rock'n'Roll argued that Tommy and three other Rosolie headed into the Amazon more wishful thinking than trend spotting. As is the way these days with bars that reduction”. starts the year the jungle with a team of environmentalists chimps, having shown “self-awareness, same way he ends the But dude, now that every winsome private sell food, the menu is short and untroubled The produce was good, the bivalves just intelligence and empathy”, were close and a Discovery Channel fi lm crew where previous one — on schoolboy with dreams of being an by trick cookery. The dishes are simple. The cooked. Flavours were muted to bland: it enough kin to humans to deserve human they trapped an anaconda in the river, top. Recorded in April internationally famous indie fi lmmaker has produce is good. The results are mostly needed more seasoning, perhaps a slug of rights. dragged it ashore, and induced the six- 1960 (with B-side I fashionable facial hair, surely Peak Beard OK. The kitchen is run by the hardworking sherry vinegar. It was $24. Rejecting the bid by attorney Steven metre snake to swallow him whole. Gotta Know), Elvis can’t be too far oJ . Surely. chef’s chef Kurt Sampson, latterly of Pata The $22 chicken skewers were generous Wise to expand the defi nition of “legal In preparation, Rosolie donned a Presley’s famous Hipster/lumbersexuals are over- Negra. and robustly fl avoured from both the person” to chimpanzees, a New full-body carbon-fi bre suit, complete rendition of Are You represented in the hospitality sector. Grilled bread, whipped mullet roe, $12, chargrill and a marinade that included York Appeals Court found with a three-hour supply of oxygen, to Lonesome Tonight? Perhaps it’s the attraction of mirrored bar was a real-deal tarama — not lurid pink, but dates and pistachios. Again, the kitchen got FOR A that no matter how great protect him from the powerful acid that the timing spot-on — the chicken chunks conquers America before Great Apes were, they allows anacondas to digest their food. storming up the Aussie charts on Christmas Eve. were just cooked but nicely charred. Amanda didn’t take part in the He also covered himself with pigs’ blood The song, written in 1926, stays at the top until “Quail pie”, $27, was straight out of the “societal bargains that and crawled about like an animal to February when Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra North African playbook: meat in brik pastry has guaranteed human encourage it to swallow him. Which it did. send him oT with Wonderland by Night. cooked on the grill and anointed with icing conversed rights”. Once entirely consumed, he was then sugar. Sounds weird eh? Not so fast. It’s While the dragged out again — more’s the pity, sweet/meat/fruit riJ is confronting if your lately with court found that some might say. BUSHFIRES rip only experience of icing sugar is on the top chimpanzees were He said he wanted to do something through Dwellingup of a cupcake, but it is classic bisteeya and a snake. autonomous beings that shocking enough to reach new TV and surrounding areas, well made, if a little dry. shared much with humans audiences. “Environmentalists love to trapping terrifi ed residents. The kitchen loves the sweet-sour thing. DISCERNING and were not just simple preach to the choir. I’m trying to bring Started by lightning during One of their pizzas is like a slice of Sicily, objects like chairs or tables, in a bunch of people who wouldn’t a heatwave, the fi res engulf topped with sardines and the classic Justice Karen Peters said that, unlike know what’s going on in the Amazon. more than 130 homes, agrodolce combo of currants, pine nuts and humans, apes couldn’t contribute to Desperate times, desperate measures,” destroy stock and wildlife, sweet-sour onions on a base of thinly sliced society or suT er the legal consequences Rosolie said, adding that he ensured and blacken forests. potatoes and herbs. Superb, and $14 for a of their actions. the suit was smooth so as not to hurt Remarkably, however, no small single-serve pizza is terrifi c value. Tommy’s owner, Patrick Lavery, the snake. “The anaconda’s OK. Other The star dishes include cuttlefi sh with one is killed. agreed, saying he found the idea of giving environmentalists are coming out against minted peas and almonds, $22, quinoa, Tommy human rights “ridiculous”. Tommy me, but I’m the guy that’s been down walnut falafel and tahini, $16, and all of the had “an excellent home” with TV, several there in the jungle trying to protect these pizzas. rooms and outdoor enclosures. “He’s things.” On the occasions we visited for the happy there.” He found Wise’s lawsuit I’d love to hear Amanda De Warren’s QUIZ Test your knowledge purposes of this review, Propeller went AUDIENCE mystifying. “He’s got other species on his view on the anaconda’s mindset. The from low key to massive hit as word spread list. I understand that after he frees the author of Woman’s Day’s Animal 1 In which decade capital city to Uluru? quickly of its compelling formula: casual, chimps he’s gonna go after the elephants Whisperer column, she’s an animal The menu Propeller outdoors, village-y, smart and welcoming of the 19th century 6 In 1983, which golfer 222 Queen Victoria Street, and make them human.” psychic who talks to animals both here on — everything you want in a neighbourhood was the WAFL walked into the spinning is short and North Fremantle, If Tommy didn’t qualify as quite human Earth and on the “other side”. eatery. It’s a joyful place to be. founded? propeller of a Cessna 9335 9366 enough to have to pay his lawyer’s Amanda has conversed lately with The best of Propeller is what the owners 2 Which 70s/80s band aeroplane at Sydney untroubled propellernorthfreo.com.au fees, an orang-utan named Sandra had a snake named Jessie and a crocodile have created in such a short time. They had the hits, Wide Open Airport? OPEN more luck. In November, animal rights named Crunch (both alive) and found by trick bang on about “community” and the venue Road and Bury Me Deep 7 Breakfast/lunch/dinner, campaigners fi led a habeas corpus that their hearts were full of love for Who wrote the classic song “being a local, neighbourhood hang” and in Love? Blue Suede Shoes? cookery. Wednesday-Sunday petition — a document more typically humankind. PRICES they’ve created just that — a friendly, local, 3 Kenny Lowe replaced 8 used to challenge the legality of a She also recently chatted to a The Scream is a series of Nibbles ...... $6-$12 neighbourly place with a few well-priced which person as person’s detention or imprisonment — on dead cockatoo named Chiko who paintings and prints by House-cured meats...... $18 wines, simple food, a rollcall of bar-style/ coach of Perth behalf of Sandra, a 29-year-old Sumatran informed her she was in regular which 19th/20th century Pizza ...... $14-$24 dude-style small and share plates and Glory in artist? Ocean/Earth/Land .....$16-$35 orang-utan at the Buenos Aires zoo. contact on the other side with December 2013? smart, slightly frantic service. The food is In a landmark ruling, the Association her old owner’s (human) 9 What are the only THE BUZZ on-trend but there’s nothing revolutionary 4 In which 2014 FAMILY & WELLBEING of Ob cials and Lawyers for Animal father and that things mammals naturally capable Superb local gem. Modern about it. Not that there’s anything wrong movie did Rights argued that Sandra had sub cient were going really well of true and sustained T ight? design, great-value food with that: the best restaurants in the world Naomi Watts cognitive functions not to be treated as over there. Picasso and 10 Who is credited with made simple. Short but well- are simple and pleasing and smart without play the formed wine list. Licensed an object. The court agreed that Sandra, Blacky, dead cats, and being the U rst European to being too clever. character from 5pm. Fun in the sun and Chopper, a dead dog, set foot on the western born in captivity, deserved basic human Daka a great vibe. 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Cranky greenkeeper out the back, in the smallest of a chore can be elevated to a hobby if it and hot, I haphazardly squirted the grass, silky pyjama shorts, inspecting his Sir Walter requires a trip to Bunnings and the purchase yanking on the hose and cursing the kinks. d\dfip`e@Cfm\K_`jG_fkf#fli JB bu? alo. Hands on hips, he meanders back of a power tool.) More often than not, I heard the sound of the I left Busselton when I was about 17. But it was an and forth tracing grid patterns in his turf, He fl exes his biceps and leans down to kitchen window being wrenched open and amazing place to grow up. One thing I remember is we engrossed in the grass at his feet. The swell grasp the pull cord. With a single powerful Mum’s voice shouting: “And if you break that always got our dogs from the pound. There was never of his New Year’s tummy throws a soft round jerk, his periwinkle-blue Victa Vantage hose, young lady, you’ll be watering till April!” any question about it; we just always did it and so that’s shadow on his beloved lawn. coughs, then screams to life. Thirty years later, I live with a man who

what I grew up knowing. And that kind of fl owed into PICTURE DUNCAN ROBERT I lean against the kitchen bench and “And that’s how it’s done,” he calls over has joined that great confraternity of lawn PetRescue later on. admire his XL silhouette through the glass his shoulder to seven-year-old son. Small devotees. How green is it? How lush is it? popular regular sections are a great the pets we wanted. One day, I was going up to see my My professional background is primarily IT-based. doors. Something catches his eye. He drops boy bolts inside, hands clapped to his ears. How neat and clipped and weed-free is it? I’ve worked in all kinds of areas — banking, insurance, I grandparents in Perth and I was devastated because I to one knee and prospects in the grass with As his father marches the mower across the These are the questions that try men’s souls. worked for Alcoa for a few years. I lived and worked in wasn’t allowed to take my pets with me. They were dung a stick. I predict a lone dandelion weed, or lawn, small daughter pinches her I asked the local lawnmower man, Selwyn, with both Melbourne and Perth, and while I love Melbourne, beetles. They lived in a tin, and I loved them. But I guess take some marauding clover or — quelle horreur! nose, choked by the smell of petrol. about his philosophy of lawns. “Mowing my grandparents, being really urban people, would have comedian These Perth’s my home now: my family’s here, my wife is from — a lumbering black beetle. I remind myself to appreciate the grass is therapeutic,” he explained. “It’s thought it was the craziest thing they had ever seen. FIVE Simon here and her family’s here, too. Watching him worship his lawn, I feel a sight of man and machine in perfect about power and control: crisp lines, clean Eventually I moved to Perth and then Melbourne, Taylor are the way to share some magic moments. When I was living in Melbourne, I adopted a dog and surge of jealousy. Why is he yet to descend congruence. edges. A perfect result in a crappy world.” where JB and I met Vickie. We realised we all had this that was fantastic. It was also where, about 11 years ago on bended knee before me, the saintly questions The lawns of my childhood were That made sense. At 78, my mum still cuts passion for helping animals — I was working I LOVE . . . ripping cones. now, I caught up with Michelle and Vickie, the two other mother of his children? I brush aside my swathes of spongy bu? alo needing her own lawn with a hand mower. as a volunteer in a shelter and Vickie was Is that how you use that that try founders of PetRescue. It was Michelle who came up Virgin Queen fantasies as he rises and greets constant nurturing. In the early “I do my best thinking when I’m mowing,” a behavioural dog trainer there. There expression? Anyway, eating with the original concept, which became almost an me with a smile. He points triumphantly men’s souls. mornings, our street thrummed with Mum says. “In any case, a lawn should refl ect online dating agency for people looking for pets. seemed to be this gaping need in the ice-cream is awesome. to the leafy weed he has snu? ed from the the tic-tic-tic of sprinklers, calling nicely on a house.” Nobody else in Australia was doing it, as far as industry for a large-scale advertising I HATE . . . When one the “i” before grass. Such devotion to his turf! to each other like birds. I practised my Arriving home yesterday, I discovered We also ask prominent people about we knew. Now, about 98 per cent of pet rescue of pets. So many other products got “e” except after “c” rule. It Our lawn spreads from the back veranda handstands and cartwheels on the front lawn my lawn lover face down on the verge. He’d groups in Australia are members of PetRescue: is weak, better promotion than these animals doesn’t work when you run a like a viridescent carpet. It’s eye-calmingly only to be rewarded with a patchwork of hacked up a square foot of grass and was they list all their animals for adoption on our and they really do deserve a second feisty heist on a weird beige the other is green but has become inexplicably brindled grass cuts that stung like blazes. elbow deep in dirt, swearing over a retic pipe website, which means people have one easy- chance. And that’s what inspired foreign neighbour. PetRescue, and the idea of telling with two brown patches along the south In the summer holidays, it was my job I’d driven over. I sat beside him and gently to-use place to fi nd your pet. strong. I WILL . . . the story of each animal, giving them open the fridge, fence. By day’s end, I’ll fi nd my man to shepherd our beagle on his morning suggested his lawn fetish was becoming We want to make the process a joyful one. see that there is nothing that Owning a pet is awesome, and we wanted the a digital footprint and a visibility they crouched beside one circle of yellowed constitutional. We’d sni? our way around the obsessive. town to tell us what they’re doing in hadn’t had previously. I want, then come back 10 thatch, hose in hand, lovingly coaxing four golf course. Even at 6.30am, I could smell “Honey,” I asked. “What’s that process of pet acquisition to be the same. We’re A pound is run by the local council. A minutes later to see if my small green shoots to proliferate. the heat riding in on the easterly. Then the relationship in nature when one organism always hearing stories of families gathering around the standards have dropped. computer to look at all the animals — dogs, cats, rabbits, rescue group is an animal welfare charity, which focuses In summer, the soundtrack to my weekend greenkeeper would climb aboard his ride-on lives o? another? I WON’T . . . guinea pigs, ponies, goats, the full spectrum of domestic on keeping animals out of cages and in homes, through confront people becomes the absonant roar of his mower. mower and saturate the air with the humid “You mean marriage?” pets — on the website. Last year was our 10th anniversary fostering and, hopefully, eventual rehoming. So a lot I am upset with but I will He emerges from the house in a Panama hat sweetness of cut grass. I warily skirted the “No,” I bristled. “I meant symbiosis. But and we’re just shy of 250,000 pet re-homes. It’s pretty of our work is with the rescue groups, building up their win all the arguments I have and shorts, printed with a vivid pattern of par-four fairway, where the giant sprinklers feel free to sleep out with your lawn Culture Vulture and compose some amazing. profi le so they don’t have to pay for advertising. WA with them in my head. interlocking elephants. The garden shed is spun around on their tripod legs, trying to tonight.” Michelle and I knew each other growing up in has the most successful rescue groups in the country, I WISH . . . I didn’t just emptied of trimmer, edger, whipper snipper, blast me with machine-gun jets of water. [email protected] Busselton, so it’s been a long friendship. We share a deep actually, like SAFE, which started around the same spend 10 minutes looking for love of ... beer (laughs) and our fi rst half dozen AGMs for time we did. There is no obstacle these people can’t my phone while I was talking PetRescue were held at a pub. I think our key diY erence overcome. They’re amazing. on my phone. is I thrive on pressure — if I’m not busy, I’m not happy — JB is like my third brother, and he’s great because this but Michelle is more chilled out. I get a bit too revved up is the kind of industry where you need lots of support Simon Taylor performs the I love this photo . . . words of wisdom for their teenage sometimes, but I’m learning where to draw the line now. around you as it’s heartbreaking sometimes. When one WA premiere of his show of us is weak, the other is strong, and we tend to bounce Funny at Fringe World Also, a lot of the stuY I do, and how my brain works, is Festival in the Circus Theatre, back and forth. So in that sense we really do complement Tony White love this 1967 photograph, as it shows a time when Aussie kids roamed free. analytical and mathematical. If you want some stats on Perth Cultural Centre, 6pm, remembers Pictured are myself (top right), my brother, sister and cousins at Lake Monger. how many cats were re-homed in far north Queensland each other. And hey, we’ve even got matching tattoos! January 29-February 3, tickets The important thing is working in this industry can be through fringeworld.com.au. carefree IIt was a time when you had lunch at home at noon, then on your bike and you on a certain week in 2012 then I could tell you. I really really emotional, and to be able to support each other days when didn’t get back until dark, all in bare feet. A time before we convinced ourselves like those concrete fi gures, where everything is sharply there is a child abductor hiding behind every bush. A time when swings and — this goes for our whole team, actually — means being kids could defi ned and black and white. Michelle is more into the playgrounds were not ergonomically designed to protect children from every self in Dear Me. Readers can also test able to turn that emotion into something useful and research and welfare side, and mining the data from roam free. positive. We’ve all done campaigns which have got under conceivable type of accident. You learnt to look after yourself because kids did pounds. occasionally fall and break a bone. You learnt these things and nobody our skin but having the team there encourages you to I have to admit there have been hard times over the 10 sued anyone when it did happen. Kids roamed free without parental come up with a solution, no matter what. years of PetRescue’s operation. But we have a good team supervision, not being watched by someone G lming them somewhere I know 10 years is not a long time in the business working with us; there are around 760 rescue groups that on CCTV, nor carrying mobile phones so parents can track them world. But JB and Vickie and I were in our early 20s when use our services; and there are the thousands of people with GPS locators. If something bad did happen or someone got hurt, we started PetRescue, and that gap between 20 and 30 their general knowledge with our who have adopted from us. It’s much bigger than all of us the Lord of the Flies took over and our small child-like society solved can see quite a signifi cant evolution in your life. When and we’re better than we’ve ever been before and that’s the problem somehow with out an app on a phone to look up. I love we started out we were naive and had all these grand pretty exciting. this photo of a time before everything gave you cancer, a time before What’s your favourite photo? Send a high- plans. Now we’ve got families, which has been quite a anything pronounced as bad was banned by someone, a time before resolution image to [email protected]. big personal change for us. But we’ve stuck by each au and tell us in no more than 300 words why Michelle the press became the morality police. A time when Aussie kids did roam other through everything, and we’re looking forward to you love it. Please note, this is a very popular The best thing about growing up in the country was free, maybe not only in their movements but in their hearts and minds. section, so publication may take many months. you were able to have animals and build empathy with whatever challenges the next 10 years bring. quiz and win some great prizes with them as children. We had an eight-acre (3.2ha) hobby petrescue.com.au farm with enough room to run farm animals and have all William Yeoman

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