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23.01.2022 We'll forgive the response, simply because people react in different ways to being provoked. But please remember that Fraser Anning being egged in Melbourne is very small beer compared with 49 innocent people being killed in Christchurch.
22.01.2022 Brenden and Paula O'Roberts and staff at the Molong Bakery Café, St Patricks Day 2019.
21.01.2022 IT'S GOOD TO BE GREEN: 17 MARCH 2019 | To be sure, to be sure Brenden and Paula O'Roberts and their staff at the Molong Bakery Café certainly got into the spirit of St Patricks Day this morning and donned some appropriate green garb.
21.01.2022 DESTINATION: Sydney | By JOHN ROZENTALS | TRAVEL: 19 MARCH 2019 | JOHN ROZENTALS finds four reasons to stay at the Tank Stream, right in the heart of Sydney. I reckon that a quartet is every bit as sexy as a trio or a quintet just ask The Beatles, the Sydney String Quartet or the Benny Goodman Quartet so I have no qualms about listing four reasons why I’d choose to stay in the Tank Stream ahead of most inner-Sydney properties. First, its location, on the corner of Pitt St...reet and Curtin Place, puts it right amid the many Sydney attractions I wish to access places such as the Opera House, Circular Quay and, for getting to and from the place, Wynyard Station. Second, its people, seem to genuinely care. Where else, for instance, does the guy behind the desk remember you by first name a good two years after your first stay in the property and that you had a red car which they kindly parked at the end of their drive? Third, it doesn’t try to be a five-and-a-half-star city hotel and charge accordingly. You can stay there from about $200 per night instead of twice that, and though the free non-alcoholic welcome bar is only worth a relative tuppence, it sure makes you feel that you’re not experiencing a vision into the future and paying tomorrow’s prices for today’s drinks. Fourth, its on-site restaurant, Le Petit Flot French for ‘little stream’, aka the early NSW colony’s life-giving Tank Stream represents a good mixing pot of French cuisine and Australian ingredients. And, as a devoted fork-and-stomach person, the fourth point is very important to me. The French onion soup is a tour de force a standout dish made all the heartier by loads of perfectly cooked onion and delectable strands of cheese. Vive Le France! Chef Colin Yee has also created masterpieces from entrées such as prawn-and-avocado salad and sweet prawns with angel-hair pasta, and main courses such as grilled Ebony angus steak. These creations are all to kill for. Not that the culinary delights at the Tank Stream are confined to Le Petit Flot. I had a very pleasant lunch with the hotel’s general manager, Klaus Kinateder, in its atrium bar, and he introduced me to the new menu there. It’s quite limited but offers excellent value in terms of dishes such as sliced wagyu steak and char-grilled salmon. They provide a great introduction to the delights on offer in Le Petit Flot, while the bar provides a terrific venue that fully captures the buzz of Sydney. Rooms at the Tank Stream are certainly comfortably set up and beautifully maintained. The complimentary wi-fi is a breeze to use and it really is fast, so feel quite at ease about bringing your work or your relaxation with you. IF YOU GO The Tank Stream Hotel, 97 Pitt St, Sydney; phone (02) 8222 1200; visit www.stgileshotels.com. Disclosure: John Rozentals was a guest of the Tank Stream Hotel.
19.01.2022 JOHN'S MOLONG BLOG: 19 March 2019 | What happened on this day in the Molong of yesteryear? And what's happening today and in the near future. From Molong on 19 March 1915, The Molong Argus reported: "The drought still has a tight grip of this district. The situation is fast becoming serious, and feed is almost as scarce as in the 1902 drought. The scarcity of water is the chief trouble, as stock cannot hold out much longer." PIC: NSW Sheep Dog Workers State Trials The Rec, ...Continue reading
14.01.2022 WHAT'S IN A NAME: 17 MARCH 2019 | Jubilee Way, Molong Few residents of Molong would realise that the town’s Edward St, between Bank St and Hill St, was once known as Jubilee Way and that the rather grand avenue of trees lining the block was planted to mark the 1938 Silver Jubilee of King George V. These days the plaque, atop an ordinary concrete mile peg near the corner of Edward St and Hill St, and commemorating the occasion, is totally obliterated. It could still be read ...a few years ago and states that it was laid in 1997 by the following Molong Central School students Michael Orr, Jayden Yuille, Andrew Harris, Leanne McKenzie, Amber Bailey, Ricki Featon, Briana Pallier and Alex Brown. It represents a bit of Molong’s history and a case could certainly be made for Cabonne Council restoring it.
13.01.2022 Remember, they're our neighbours being killed by shipwrecked minds ... well said Stan Grant ...
12.01.2022 WORKING DOGS: 18 MARCH 2019 | A real treat awaits this week at the Molong Rec Head for the Molong Rec this week for a free look at one of the town’s great annual events. The NSW Sheep Dog Workers State Championship Trials will be held there from tomorrow (Tuesday 19 March) until the finals and presentation on Saturday 23 March.... Molong Online’s prediction is that the organization will be terrific (largely due to Andrew Heath and Janelle Fessey), that the canteen will be serving a treat, that the ground will look fantastic, and that the dogs will be wonderful and thoroughly tested by some hornery sheep released by Frank Bollinger and his team. The attached pix were taken last year by Molong Online.
12.01.2022 JOHN'S MOLONG BLOG: 17 March 2019 | What happened on this day in the Molong of yesteryear? And what's happening today and in the near future. From Molong on 17 March 1911, The Molong Argus reported: "A sensational bolt occurred at the Manildra recreation ground last Tuesday. A horse beonging to Mr Ruben Gosper, of Red Hill, made off and jumped the fence of the ground. It smashed the top rail. but got the vehicle clean over the wires. When re-captured it was found neither hors...Continue reading
11.01.2022 By JOHN ROZENTALS | WINE: 19 MARCH 2019 | JOHN ROZENTALS agrees with McLaren Vale’s Martin Lightfoot that Australian consumers have been denied some great wine experiences. PIC: How sweet it as. Xanadu’s Chief Winemaker, Glenn Goodall, enjoys some of his winning 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon from the Jimmy Watson Trophy at this year’s Melbourne Wine Show presentation. When the English established their colony in South Africa they planted grape varieties that they were familiar with.... As a result, for production of table wines, mostly French varieties were planted. The pattern was set and emulated in South Australia, with cuttings acquired in Europe and Capetown on the way to Australia. This foundation set the scene well into the future, and it is only relatively recently that Italian and Iberian Peninsula varieties have found their feet in Australia. Two new wines from McLaren Vale’s Hastwell and Lightfoot, who are championing these varieties, include the 2017 Hastwell & Lightfoot Tempranillo and 2017 Hastwell & Lightfoot Montepulciano. Grapegrowers have looked at the relative latitudes of where these varieties grow best and questioned why we are not growing these wines which are eminently more compatible with our region, explained owner and vigneron, Martin Lightfoot. Wine drinkers have missed out on these fabulous varieties that are arguably more suitable to our climate, especially here in McLaren Vale. We have planted a range of emerging varieties including montepulciano, tempranillo, fiano, garnacha, vermentino and barbera. I can only agree with Martin’s sentiments. Many of our viticultural areas have much more in common with Italy and Spain that they do with northern France. Any grape variety that thrives and makes good wine in Italy and Spain should do the same in similar Australian areas. WINE REVIEWS Hastwell & Lightfoot 2017 Tempranillo ($25): Tempranillo is highly regarded and widely planted in Spain and has these days become quite well established in Australia. This is quite an elegant, full-flavoured dry red with some similarities to cabernet sauvignon from McLaren Vale. This wine is filled out with a touch of grenache. Hastwell & Lightfoot 2017 Montepulciano ($25): Montepulciano is Italy’s second-most-planted grape variety after sangiovese but it is only just finding its feet in Australia. This is a rather old-fashioned and rustic full-flavoured dry red which contains a small quantity of shiraz, and would I think go very well with a bowl of freshly cooked pasta and a red-sauced topping. WINE OF THE WEEK Xanadu 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon ($39): Not due for release until 15 April, but this year’s Jimmy-Watson-Trophy-winner is certainly worth writing about right now. This features Margaret River elegance, balance and flavour at their best, and is filled to bursting with black-currant aromas and tastes of dark forest fruits. Reserve for the finest lamb you can find or squirrel away for at least a decade.
10.01.2022 JOHN'S MOLONG BLOG: 18 March 2019 | What happened on this day in the Molong of yesteryear? And what's happening today and in the near future. From Molong on 18 March 1910, The Molong Argus reported: "Constable McKechnie who has been away in Sydney on strike duty for the past couple of months, returned to Molong on Wednesday morning." PIC: NSW Sheep Dog Workers State Trials The Rec, Molong, from tomorrow, Tuesday, 19 March, until finals on Saturday 23 March Janelle Fessey ...Continue reading
05.01.2022 JOHN'S MOLONG BLOG: 16 March 2019 | What happened on this day in the Molong of yesteryear? And what's happening today and in the near future. From Molong on 16 March 1917, The Molong Argus reported: "On Sunday last a team representing the Federal Tennis Club, made a trip to Orange and played a match against Bernasconl's private club. The Molong team proved victorious. PIC: Cargo Village Markets 10am-2pm, today, Saturday, 16 March, Cargo Village Green 6364 3207....Continue reading
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03.01.2022 READING FOR TRAVELLERS: 18 MARCH 2019 | One for the carry-on bag DETAILS | Mark MacKenzie (ed), Curiosities and Splendour | Lonely Planet, 312pp hardback, $29.99 I’m sure that this volume will find its way into many travellers’ suitcases. I know it shall mine.... Edited by Mark MacKenzie and published this March, Curiosities and Splendour is Lonely Planet’s collection of classic travel literature from 29 great authors and adventurers. Lonely Planet journeys back in time with this anthology of celebrated travel writing. The selected tales illuminate an array of extraordinary experiences over land and sea that continue to captivate contemporary audiences. The best travel writing evokes not just a sense of place, or of wonder, but relates its story with a distinctive voice, writes the book’s Editor, Mark MacKenzie, in his Introduction to the book. Perhaps all that needs to be said is that the very finest travel writing elevates the everyday to the sublime. Curiosities and Splendour includes tales from Mary Anne Barker (Station Life in New Zealand), Robert Byron (The Road to Oxiana), James Cook (Voyages) Charles Dickens (American Notes), Ernest Shackleton (South), Mark Twain (Life on the Mississippi), Edith Wharton (In Morocco), and more. Based on media release issue by Lonely Planet.
