Collingwood, Melbourne for Ladies
Melbourne is the world’s fourth most liveable city of 2025, partly because of its charming shops for women. Collingwood is full of them. Here are six essential shops in Collingwood to visit.
Bills Famous Bondi Beach Breakfast
Bill Granger’s Bloody Mary, Scrambled Eggs, Ricotta Hotcakes and Sweetcorn Fritters for breakfast. Too much? Jennifer Johnson thinks not…
Brigitte Bardot’s Repetto Classics
Bardot’s ballet shoes worn with Capri pants, fishnet tights or carried in her hand – are still the favourite luxury brand of many French women. Many have copied, but few come close…
Chanel’s Paris Tea Room
Chanel’s Paris Tea Room by Jennifer Johnson Angelina is known primarily for its hot chocolate and Mont Blanc super-cake – but also for being Chanel’s Paris tea room of choice – and where Vivienne Westwood launched herself. There’s More to Angelina… Before 2021, the most controversial thing that had ever happened at Angelina in Paris […]
Second-hand Hermes Scarf Secrets by Jennifer Johnson
It takes 37 km of silk, spun by Bombyx Mori worms, to produce enough for one Hermes scarf. That’s one of the reasons they are so costly. Buy secondhand and you can reduce the cost by one half, to one third. What are the secrets to know, though?
The YouTube Healer People Love
Sara Raymond is a hypnotherapist and YouTube healer with a lot of praise from people whose pain, anxiety, insomnia and panic attacks she has fixed. All free. All on video.
Fabulous French Dressing Past Fifty
French women don’t date (and don’t grow old) the way everyone else does. Jennifer Johnson looks at the rules commonly followed by Ines and other French style icons.
Stay In Welsh Poet & Writer Dylan Thomas’ Houses
For the first 23 years of his life, Dylan Thomas lived in Swansea in a sweet home you can now rent for a holiday. You can also stay in the home he lived in with his wife in Laugharne, and from September 2024 The Dylan Thomas Boathouse will also open its doors.
Melbourne’s Beach Bar for Dogs
A bar for dogs with great open-air dining for their owners, near a dog-friendly beach is hard to find. But The Dog’s Bar in Melbourne has it all, perfect for pooches and their human friends.
Ros Reines Essential Ingredients for a Bondi Beach Picnic
Guest Goddess Ros Reines heads out to tests every patch of grass from Bondi Beach to Bronte to deliver the perfect picnic plan, for groups big and small.
Tied By More Than Thread by Lily Gutierrez
Continuing to share clothes with my lost friend is my reminder of everything invisible we shared between the clothes. Lily Gutierrez remembers her friend, Venus.
Holiday Goddess Fashion Faux Pas Confessions by Ros Reines
I wore a screamingly bright, multi-coloured, sequin scattered Camilla jumpsuit to lunch at the legendary Club 55 in St Tropez. It seems I had not received the memo – the entire dining room was in white with the only deviation, a light blue trim.