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Daniele was born in 1940 during WW2 in the Alsace region of France. “I was very young but I do remember my mother turning the radio down low, shutting the blackout curtains at night and listening to the voice of Churchill on the BBC.”

We gardeners are a friendly lot, and will find any excuse to get together and chat about all things horticultural. And often we learn something as well.

While we take for granted that bird eggs have hard and brittle shells, eggs inside the female bird are soft shelled until shortly before laying, when calcium is added to harden them. Just why this happens is unclear, as plenty of reptiles (for example) lay soft shelled eggs.

In the afternoon of Saturday June 6, an exhibition of paintings and ceramics opened at Stockyard Gallery in Foster. Lynne Muir welcomed the large crowd who attended, many of them visitors to the area no doubt, thanks to the holiday weekend, after which both artists spoke about their work.

The Meeniyan Makers Market is back for its winter edition this King’s Birthday long weekend, filling the Meeniyan Town Hall with handmade treasures and local creative talent on Saturday 6 June from 10am to 2pm.

A new group exhibition inspired by the winemaking process and South Gippsland’s landscapes is opening this June, supported by South Gippsland Shire Council's ArtCube residency program.

She was born into wealth, travelled Europe in style, and ended her days alone in a crumbling mansion slowly being swallowed by the Tarwin Lower swamp. And then, one day in May 1952, she vanished into thin air.