(I’m informed that calling the Minister for Communications names might get me into trouble so I’ve edited the below blog so that I can continue to post blogs. ) In …
We found the deep curtsey difficult to master in deportment class at school. Most of us toppled over several times, but practice makes perfect, and we retain a certain amount …
The core extras include me, my husband, his friend, his friend’s wife, my brother, his son and daughter, her friend, my sister’s daughter, my two friends, a neighbour, my friend’s …
“Use what you know” – advice to first-time novelists from a teacher at RMIT, 1996. Remain light in your partner’s arms, do not lean. Use what you know; dancing …
All frocked up on the set of ‘The Dressmaker’ To attend the wedding of William Beaumont to Gertrude Pratt we frocked it way up in vintage couture. Labels intact. One …
In my early twenties, I clung to a handsome boy on a motorcycle all the way from San Francisco to Houston, Texas, then to to Buenos Aires … and …
Kate Winslet as Tilly Dunnage on the set of ‘The Dressmaker’ Sometime in 1950, Tilly Dunnage stepped apprehensively into the Dungatar fog from an idling Greyhound Bus – the one …
In costume and on the set of ‘The Dressmaker’ Prior to her return to Dungatar, Tilly Dunnage spent years making couture for elegant customers in European cities. Tilly was vendeuse, …
