Special offer for RB Sellars customers

October 1st, 2013

At present there is a special book-purchase related offer available for RB Sellars customers.  Details of the offer are on a flyer mailed out with RB Sellars Spring-Summer clothing orders. RB Sellars is based in Collingwood (Victoria).  The photographs for last year’s Spring/Summer catalogue were taken in and around Townsville.  The company makes a great range […]

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Home again

September 28th, 2013

Home at long last!  Fabulous 4 weeks visiting farms in Ireland then Scotland and England; followed by 3 days in France. The job of sorting the several thousand photographs begins this coming week…and yes some will be appearing online!

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Agricultural Travel to Ireland, Scotland, Wales & England

August 27th, 2013

*UPDATE* The July-August 2018 ‘Paddock to Plate’ farm (& photography) tour of Ireland & the UK details can be found on this blog page. 2013 tour details: Kerry Moss and I are taking a Quadrant Agricultural Tour to the British Isles in late August, until late September.  We’ll be zig-zagging over farms and memorable sites in […]

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Ideal gifts for Father’s Day – Sunday 1st September

August 1st, 2013

The coffee-table style outback books “A Million Acre Masterpiece” and “Life as an Australian Horseman” are ideal gifts for parents, who are typically hard to buy for.  And the older they become, the harder it is to find memorable gifts! There are many comments from happy (and often very relieved!) book purchasers on the Testimonials page. Father’s Day is […]

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Ordering Christmas gifts

December 16th, 2012

There IS still time to order books and have them delivered to you or the gift recipient before Christmas, within Australia, but only just! The books ‘A Million Acre Masterpiece’ and ‘Life as an Australian Horseman’ are ideal gifts for anyone interested in the Australian outback, bush, vast cattle stations, horses, chopper mustering, roadtrains etc.  […]

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ABC radio interview with Jacquie Mackay

May 29th, 2012

Jacquie Mackay, from ABC Capricornia (Rockhampton), interviewed me at Beef Week this year.  Many people must have heard the interview on air because so many mentioned it when coming past my stand – but if you missed it, the radio interview can be heard online on the ABC Capricornia website. I’ve been fortunate to have […]

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Rocky’s Beef Week, May 2012

April 6th, 2012

Only a month to go until Rockhampton’s triennial Beef Week Exposition, running from 7th to the 12th of May, 2012. I’ll be there again this year, in the Walter Pearce Pavilion at tradefair stand number 45.  This year, not far from the restaurant – so I’ll be able to smell food, even though I won’t […]

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Phone problems & the NBN

March 23rd, 2012

Please note that our phone has not been working properly since Saturday 17th March (we can ring out, most of the time, but callers trying to ring us either get just a dial tone, crackling or other sounds – it doesn’t even go to Messagebank, which is a first). Telstra says the deadline for repair […]

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AACo – Corella Lake on Brunette Downs

March 17th, 2012

It was nice to open up the Townsville Bulletin today and see David Farley, CEO of the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo).  Because he is standing in front of one of my aerial photographs of Corella Lake, one of the large freshwater lakes on the AAco’s blue-ribbon cattle station in the Northern Territory, Brunette Downs. The […]

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Fiona Lake on Twitter – FionaLakeAus

March 6th, 2012

Despite not posting any Twitter messages I started collecting Twitter followers, so thought I’d better send out the occasional tweet.  Follow my occasional twitter messages @ FionaLakeAus (the world is full of people called Fiona Lake). What inspired this sudden enthusiasm?  One of my LinkedIn contacts sent a tweet about a possum that broke into […]

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