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25.01.2022 You don’t have to be a church goer to be a bellringer. Hilary Fawcett started because she fancied one of her older brother’s friends who happened to be a bellringer. No romance eventuated, but she did fall in love with bellringing and has been doing it ever since. Learn more about Australia’s oldest bells and the people ringing them in Pen Tayler’s article Traditional music at www.fortysouth.com.au/the-arts/traditional-music

23.01.2022 I was in New York during the polar vortex a few years ago. I’d been seeing everyone in Australia having a great summer and I had to go swimming. The pool was frozen so we went to the beach, which was frozen. My hair froze in icicles and my bathing suit froze solid as I got out of the water. You have to be keen, but my friend Alex McKeand explains that, for her, Not being able to swim, is like not being able to go outside. Read the full article from our latest Tasmanian Voice, Fraser Johnston at www.fortysouth.com.au/wild-swimming-an-introduction

22.01.2022 The story of pastoral Britain meeting the bush of Tasmania is a complex one. Ratho Farm, near Bothwell in Tasmania’s Central Highlands, typifies a time in which many European plants and animals were introduced all around Australia. While some were for agriculture, many were for comfort, the Europeans wanting this new land to look, feel and sound like home. Follow Peter Grant as he ponders our imposition on the Tasmanian native landscape in his article, Belonging: Thoughts from Ratho Farm, at www.fortysouth.com.au/wilderness/belonging

22.01.2022 WOMBAT WATCH DEPARTMENT

21.01.2022 TASMANIAN VOICES is a new series of columns offering opinions and perspectives on a range of themes. Our Voices celebrate what makes us different and what makes us one. Today we invite you to listen to the voice of STEPHANIE JACK. Driven by a desire to bridge cultural divides, Stephanie's Tasmanian Voices column explores multiculturalism in Tasmania. "Kitchen of dreams" is the first of a series of compelling stories about unity in difference. Read the full story at bit.ly/StephanieJack

21.01.2022 Liberated chickens, Tasmanian’s changing landscapes and 1950s India. Read more about Forty South’s latest books at bit.ly/newbooksfs Julia Miller Author The Oyster Girl Animals Australia Dr. Gajinder Oberoi #books #tasmanianbooks #tasmania

18.01.2022 Farmgate Festival is thought to be the only event of its kind in Tasmania and possibly Australia. Every November, a handful of farms in West Tamar open for one weekend and the owners host on-farm tours. This gives those growers and producers a chance to tell their stories directly. And visitors get to see where some of their food comes from, and to understand what living the dream on a small productive property is really like. Read Fiona Stocker's article at www.fortysouth.com.au/travel--tourism/behind-the-gate

18.01.2022 In Richmond’s St John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, a conventional-looking stained glass window reads, To the memory of Sister H.V. O’GRADY Died on Active Service Aug 12th 1915. Learn why self-proclaimed professional history nerd, Nick Brodie, calls this window one of the rarest things in Tasmania. Full article at bit.ly/WindowGleaner

18.01.2022 I’m not Aboriginal, but I feel a strong connection to the landscape and all living things, particularly the lobster. As an ex-Catholic atheist scientist, this feeling of oneness is as close to spirituality as I get these days. I firmly believe the world would be a better place if we respected this way of knowing, handed down from the Old People. Black or white, we all live on country and we’re part of country. We cannot be anything else. ~ Terry Mulhern Literary lobsters is the latest addition to Dr Mulhern’s Forty South column, Lobster Tales. Read about the freshwater crayfish lurking beneath the surface of Tasmanian literature: www.fortysouth.com.au/lobster-tales/literary-lobsters

17.01.2022 We’re not the only ones spreading the word about Germline, the post-covid apocalyptic thriller written before covid. In its review of the book, The Examiner has called its author, Julia Miller , an uncanny forecaster. See what The Examiner said below. The book is available through the Forty South Bookshop at https://bit.ly/GermlineJuliaMiller

17.01.2022 It is very satisfying to have a well-defined and valuable project keeping us busy in retirement. Some properties can be managed with little effort but ours needs active management with a fire regime required to maintain the priority plant species on our property. More than 10 years ago, Phil Collier and Robin Garnett were the first to buy land under the Tasmanian Land Conservancy revolving property fund, a system through which the TLC buys high conservation-value land, protects the habitat for threatened fauna or flora with covenants, then resells to conservation-minded buyers. Read the full article at www.fortysouth.com.au/environment/panatana-keeping-the-peace

16.01.2022 In 1949, American forest ecologist Aldo Leopold wrote, A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Leopold called this a land ethic. In his latest The Patch column, Peter Grant looks to the past for wisdom to solve a modern conflict between hiker and mountain biker. Read more at www.fortysouth.com.au/the-patch/the-lessons-of-leopold

15.01.2022 Tasmania’s rugged coastline produces a lot of big waves, which in turn attract a lot of daredevil big-wave rides. The biggest big-wave name in Tasmania is Shipstern Bluff, and one of the biggest daredevil regulars there is Sam Lennox. He recently rode one wave that was so spectacular he entered video of the ride in an international big wave riding competition, and now has a chance of winning the $30,000 first prize. Grab a chair, and a seatbelt, and watch Sam’s epic ride at www.fortysouth.com.au/people/shipstern-bluff-thrillseeker If you survived the spectacle, you can go to bit.ly/SamLennox to vote for Sam in the competition. Thanks to Talon Clemow (One Palm Media) and Cam Green for the video and the thrill.

15.01.2022 VERY PUNNY DEPARTMENT

14.01.2022 One evening in mid-August, 2020, Hobart’s new artistic precinct, The Hedberg, opened to the public for one of the first times since its completion. The occasion was the launch of this website. The photographic record of the event was captured by the remarkable local photographer Ivi Dodd. Our record of that glittering evening was first published in Issue 98 of Forty South magazine. The launch, and Ivi Dodds’ images, are worth re-celebrating. Join us to do so here: www.fortysouth.com.au/forty-south/the-night-we-went-digital

14.01.2022 I have spent many months on research vessels in the waters around Antarctica. For much of that time I was surrounded by ice: blue ice, green ice, brown ice, yellow ice, blindingly white ice, even pink ice... Perhaps the most prized sightings, because of their rarity, are the jade bergs. Gem-like icebergs of the Antarctic, captured by Stephen Nicol in his article Southern Emeralds’. Read more at www.fortysouth.com.au/southern-emeralds #tasmania #antarctica #icebergs

13.01.2022 Poetry, photography, children’s fiction Read about some of Forty South’s latest book releases at www.fortysouth.com.au/books--wri/new-books-from-forty-south

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12.01.2022 Birdwatching has been a pastime since time unwritten. Isabel Howard's article, "When pastimes fly", celebrates Tasmania's dedicated birdwatching community through the eyes of bird nerd Peter Vaughan. Read it at www.fortysouth.com.au/environment/when-pastimes-fly

12.01.2022 Dr Katherine Johnson has joined Forty South as a Tasmanian Voice, writing on the theme Shifting recollections of nature’s normal. This is a poetic way of saying historical narratives and scientific perspectives on our changing environment. Katherine Johnson wears two large literary hats, one marked Novelist and one marked Science writer. She has written four novels, the latest, Paris Savages, being released in mid-2020. As a science writer, she has published in The Conversation, Good Weekend (Sydney Morning Herald) and CSIRO’s ECOS magazine. And now Forty South Tasmania. Please join Katherine Johnson as she joins Nicolas Baudin on a voyage of discovery www.fortysouth.com.au/science/a-leaf-out-of-baudins-journal

09.01.2022 "Perhaps it’s true to say that the dual food cultures of Italy and Tasmania have an affinity. Although our island’s food scene is a trembling young stem of a thing in comparison to Italy’s flourishing, deeply rooted plant, both cultures are grounded in respect for fresh and seasonal ingredients, and reach deep into our instincts for tradition, conviviality and family." Learn more about the Prodigal son, Massimo Mele, in Fiona Stocker's latest contribution to Forty South at www.fortysouth.com.au/travel--tourism/prodigal-son

08.01.2022 In America, letter boxes must conform to rules. Letter box dimensions, designs and construction materials must be approved by the Department of the Postmaster General. There, in the land of the free, there is no freedom when it comes to letter boxes. But not in Australia. Here, chaos reigns. Don Defenderfer has lived with both letter box cultures, and he firmly supports Australia’s laissez-faire attitude. Read his whimsical tribute to Tasmania’s unruly letter boxes: Island letter boxes: How to change the world at www.fortysouth.com.au//island-letter-boxes-how-to-change-t

07.01.2022 What is super kelp? Since the 1960s, it is estimated that 95 per cent of giant kelp along Tasmania’s east coast has died, largely due to warming seas. By Super kelp, or kelp that have developed the ability to withstand warmer waters through natural selection and variability, may provide environmental and even commercial benefits. Read Restoring the giants of the sea by Katherine Johnson at www.fortysouth.com.au/scien/restoring-the-giants-of-the-sea

03.01.2022 BOOK GIVEAWAY This weekend we’re giving away a copy of Forty South’s latest fiction novel, "Germline", by Julia Miller . To enter: Like this post, tag a friend and answer the question "What countries can you trace your family back to?" in the comments section below.... Entries close 5pm AEST, Monday, November 16. Entrants must be residents of Australia. The winner will be chosen by random selection. From the blurb: AMDAT Tower casts long shadows across Melbourne streets. Bougainvillea weaves its thorny tentacles around the columns and into the crevices of its steel and glass facade. From the penthouse, scientists Daniel Grant and Vaughn Lambert observe the 2074 intake of medical students. Below them, bats breed in plastic caves while researchers conduct experiments and analyse the data from billions of implanted health chips. In this post-pandemic world people have been eager to exchange their right to privacy for premium health care. Science, history, romance and mystery merge together in this thriller, Germline set in a world that Charles Darwin could never have imagined when he popularised the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’.

02.01.2022 The 2020 Forty South Short Story Anthology, featuring the 11 best stories submitted for this year’s Tasmanian Writers’ Prize, is now available. Great reading, great value. Learn more at https://bit.ly/ShortStoryAnthology2020 #shortstories #tasmania

01.01.2022 Congratulations to our prize winner, Donna Robinson, on winning a free copy of our latest fiction novel, GERMLINE by Julia Miller . Find your own copy by visiting https://bit.ly/Germline .