Jodi and Dustin (Spog) Sparrow live on a hill overlooking our beautiful countryside around Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula. This pair are successful business owners but always make time for their down-to-earth kids Shannon and Chad. Growing up on a farm myself I know just how good it is for kids to have the freedom and space to make the most of their...

The Longest Table is the Hospital Research Foundation's annual cancer fundraiser. This year Susie Chapman and the staff at the Gawler Ranges Motel held a lunch to raise funds to save lives from cancer. They raised just over $3,000 thanks to those who came and lots of generous donations from people in the district. Apart from raising money for cance...

Sione and Joe, these two crazy cats got married on the side of a hill in outback Burra S.A. Surrounded by their tight-knit community of friends and family they said their vows staring into each others eyes with the most intense real love which resonated in their whole day. For people I'd never met, they sure felt like old friends. Any advice for t...

So now that I'm 40 I feel like I'm finally an adult (just). I wanted to celebrate with a killer party with all my nearest and dearest. We decked out the local Cricket Shed with sequins and fairy lights, lit some fire drums, put a pig on the spit and rocked out to Daniel Eramiha until the wee hours of the morning. The recovery was slow but I had a s...

1918 - 2018 This week my home town of Wudinna celebrated 100 years of football, the heritage of Wudinna United Football Club and associated clubs: Yaninee FC 1918 - 1949; Pygery FC 1923 - 1949; Wudinna FC 1918-1988; United FC 1950 - 1988; Wudinna United FC 1989 - Present. The history of our club began in 1918 when Wudinna and Yaninee football c...