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...locals are still suffering the painful effects of hours fighting the fire without goggles. But donations of food and clothing are flooding in, as are offers from interstate of help with huge tasks like repairing fences. And every day there have been 20 local residents gathered on the Holmans' verandah, offering to help clean up the still-smoldering farm...
Sitting on the front verandah of his modest weatherboard cottage in the sun, looking out over a blaze of daffodils, describing in his even, unhurried voice the eating habits of crows and the swallows' nests under the eaves, Bob Brown is in his element. After buying this spectacularly beautiful piece of land at Liffey, in central Tasmania, in 1973, Brown lived here for a decade, choosing to do without phone or hot water, cooking in pots on the open fire, and cycling 100 km every weekend to work shifts as a general practitioner in Launceston...
...protest against the visit of an American nuclear warship, Brown had a growing profile in Tasmania as a slightly eccentric, shy but deeply earnest young man. At Liffey he tried to write philosophy and "put forward ideas for a better world," but spent many days on this same verandah, in his overcoat as the snow fell around the cottage, despairing "that it was all too much...
...this mix of political canniness with a lack of political slickness that helps explain the extraordinary pulling power of this 59-year-old, softly spoken former school captain, who puts on a brown cardigan as the sun starts lowering over the verandah. He is regarded as a hero by many of the Greens' mainly young members, and, by an increasing number of other voters in an electorate largely cynical about their leaders, as principled and consistent...
...French-American chef, who recently left Napa Valley's French Laundry restaurant in California, closed off the garden seating section of his year-old eatery, due as much to the decreased number of visitors as to the start of the rainy season. Instead, guests dine on a breezy verandah overlooking a lush forest of banana trees, palms, orchids and ginger flowers. Ceiling fans and geckos on the hunt lend an equatorial air, but the fine linens, crystal stemware and impeccable service could be straight out of a Michelin-starred Parisian gem. The six-course tasting menu ($26)?starting with...