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Sunday, October 10Country Music HoedownErnie Johns and the Avalanche BandGoldenHillsMotel,145MarongRoad.Entry$5,mealsfrom6pm.Details:54431333

Sunday, October 10 Big Band MusicClose of Seniors Festival2-4pm GoldenSquareUnitingChurchCornerLaurelandPantonstreets,GoldenSquare.Details:54423934.

Sunday, October 10 Girgarre Farmers Produce and Craft Market and chook auction8.30amtonoon.Seasonalfruitandvegetables.CornerWinterandStationStreet.Liveentertainment.Freeteaandcoffee.Details:58572270.

Sunday, October 10Australiana entertainmentNewmarketHotel,cornerNolanStreetandCharlestonRoad,Bendigo.1.30pmto4.30pm.Freeentry.Mealsavailablenoonto2pm.Details:54415121

Sunday, October 10Eat Pray Love - Soroptimist FundraiserBendigoCinema-QueenStreetFilmstartsat2pmTickets$15Followedbyafternoontea.

Monday, October 11 Bendigo Writers’ CouncilOctober Writers Explore Character Development Workshop7to9pm,BestEmployment26-28StAndrewsAve,BendigoCost:$5,Membership:$10annuallyDetails:54433469.

Tuesday, October 12Mature Age Persons Meet and Greet2pmeveryTuesdayattheNewmarketHotel.Nocost.Details:54462189.

Tuesday, October 12Rotate-a-date Dinner for 50+ singlesWildMint7pmDetails:0405592500.Tuesday, October 12Janome Sewing Machine – Horizon Demonstration Day.StatewideSewingSuperstore,12HighStreet,Bendigo.11am.Details:54412553.

Tuesday, October 12Travel in Style TheZontaClubandAlmarkerandImageQuestpresent.ProceedstoYWCAencoreprogramforwomenwhohaveexperiencedbreastcancer.7pmfor7.30pm.TheConservatoryAllSeasons,Bendigo.McIvorHighway,BendigoTickets$50includewelcomedrinkandsupper.Details:54394325. Tuesday, October 12Bendigo Parkinson Support group meeting.Withguestspeaker.Lunchatnoon.Meeting1pmUmpiresassociationrooms,WeeroonaOval,NapierStreet,Bendigo.Details:54473668.

Wednesday, October 13Speed Dating for 25-40 singlesWildMint,7pmDetails:0405592500. Wednesday, October 13Galicia, Spain, The Forgotten Celtic RegionPresentedbyJohnClancy,CelticStudiesConference,UniversityofSydney.4.30pm.LatrobeVisualArtsCentre,ViewStreet,Bendigo.Noneedtobookandnocharge.Details:54426649.

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1. Daylight saving 2. Blues and Roots fundraiser at The Newy

3. The Bill - goodbye old friend

4. Guy Sebastian ‘blowing it’ on X-Factor

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BEFORE even glimpsing Julian Day’s exhibition, you hear it, whining away in the distance as you make your way down Allans Walk. A plaintive drone gradually meets your ears, the ‘sound equivalent’ of grief felt by the many who did their time inside HM Bendigo Prison before it was decommissioned in 2006.

Tight Spaces is an art show completely inspired by – and immersed in – the spaces inside the omi-nous brick walls of Bendigo Prison. Best-known as a broadcaster on ABC Radio’s Classic FM, Julian is charismatic fellow with a unique take on Australian life. Sydney-based, Julian was born in Bendigo with family still here. On visits home he became fascinated with the prison’s dark history and architectural symbolism. He wound up spending his own ‘time inside’ over 18 months, after gaining access to this significant Bendigo location, post-closure.

Julian took tons of photos of the spaces and places in which generations of prisoners spent their time. He also made on-site field recordings, later manipulated into a haunting soundtrack to accompany video images.

The result is a photographic exhibition (four panels of 5x5 A4 colour photos), and a twin sound/video installa-tion. Weeds between concrete; white painted circles on which inmates stood, and blue sky with white clouds slowly crawling over it, are just some of the images that greet you when you walk inside the gallery. A prisoner’s eye-and-ear-view so to speak…

This abstract study on ‘life inside’ makes a simple point about Bendigo’s complex, glorious goldrush past - and perhaps the price any town pays for progress. That all that glitters is not gold, with crime and wealth co-dependent bedfellows. And that some must suffer in order to find liberation…

It’s a beautifully-considered, poetic exhibition, from a young artist ahead of his time. Catch Tight Spaces now, in its last days.

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EQUITANA Melbourne is the one event that brings together every aspect of the equine community to one venue. Four days of prominent educators, international trainers, top riders, specialist clinics, multitudes of shopping possibilities, elite competition, endless entertainment and hundreds of beautiful horses all combine to create the most action packed event seen in Australia.These amazing horsemen will be presenting a number of educational sessions alongside their specialist Dressage, Horsemanship and Eventing Clinics. A not to be missed opportunity to learn from proven masters of their sports.

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skip the dinner, until he bumps into Barry (Steve Carell) - an IRS employee who devotes his spare time to building elaborate taxidermy mouse dioramas - and quickly realizes he’s struck idiot gold. Tim can’t resist, and invites Barry, whose blundering good intentions soon sends Tim’s life into a frenzied downward spiral and a series of comic misadventures, threatening a major business deal, bringing crazy stalker ex-girlfriend, Darla, back into Tim’s life and driving Julie (or so Tim thinks) into the arms of another man.

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THE inaugural Bendigo Blues and Roots Music Festival takes another ma-jor step tomorrow afternoon, towards its eventual debut in November next year.

That strong advocate of live music, The Newmarket Hotel, will hold the jam-packed fundraiser which boasts 18 live and mainly local acts on the bill.

Pencilled in to perform are Mel-bourne‘s Andrew Higgs and Kyneton’s own Tully Sumner, together with local performers Damien Neil, Michelle Mee-han and Urban Creatures.

With the backing of government grants, local council and corporate sponsorship, the support of you, the lo-cal punter, is essential.

“It’s a great opportunity for local punt-ers to show a sign of good faith to our potential backers and to demonstrate

that the local music scene in Bendigo is alive and well,” festival director Colin Thompson said.

For a quality preview of just a selection of the awesome talent to be found in the region, entry is a mere $15.

“This is a pittance, disproportionately small compared to the array of talent you’ll be able to enjoy for the afternoon and evening,” Thompson said.

This festival is off and running, after a strongly attended street-side launch last month outside The Base-ment Bar.

A main feature of next year’s festival will be a concert in Rosalind Park.

The fundraiser kicks off at midday, at The Newmarket Hotel.

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EVERYBODY needs a mentor, to help us strive for greater things.

It’s no different in music.For 14-year-old Heathcote musician Cassie

Ward, her rise to the big stage tomorrow at the FReezA Battle of the Bands regional finals, has been guided by not only a mentor, but a close friend, fellow Heathcote muso, Bianca Mayes.

A singer from a young age, Ward’s recent development has been fostered closely under Mayes’ tuition.

Tomorrow, they will share the stage, when they represent the region.

A music teacher in her home town, with 16 budding musicians on her books, Ward was one of Mayes’ first ever pupils.

“I’m a little bit nervous, but I can’t wait to get up on stage,” Ward said.

Mayes is no stranger to the big stage herselfOne half of sister act, Preston Perche, the

band have played a number of big name ven-ues, like the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda.

She returned to Heathcote permanently ear-

lier this year to run her music school and find inspiration away from the city.

“I love Heathcote, it will always be my home,” she said.

Mayes will take a backing role tomorrow, however.

And that suits her fine, allowing her protege to shine in her own right.

“Cassie has an amazing voice, she demands your attention,” Bianca said.

“She has a great stage feel.”It was Mayes’ encouragement that helped

Ward both enter, and win, the Bendigo leg of the battle, performing a selection of her origi-nals.

“I thought she was good enough, and ready enough, to enter with her own original mate-rial,” Mayes said.

“She has this uniqueness about her, I would say the X Factor, but that probably doesn’t sound suitable anymore.”

While Ward’s vocal skills and guitar work have impressed, it’s her songwriting which sets her apart.

“She could take any subject matter and turn it into a song,” Mayes said.

“She is an amazing songwriter. “She could do anything with her talent.“It’s all in front of her.”

The FReeZA Battle of the Bands Regional Finals is on tomorrow at the Kangaroo Flat Leisure Centre from 4pm. Entry $15. Head-lining the event is Melbourne three-piece band, Calling All Cars.

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DUCK is a small book packed with maximum appeal. Presentation, ver-satility and soul – the volume has it all. Crafted for tiny hands and gentle hearts, it speaks of companionship, reunion and the beauty nurtured by a special, but unlikely friend. Exquisitely illustrated, Duck is literature to live by, literature to teach, and literature to enjoy – especially for those still fresh from heaven – and those given the honour of helping them grow.

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AS an actor Will Ferrell can be a very good performer and, equally, he can produce bad performances that are usually script driven. In The Other Guys he is good at being very annoying when he plays Detective Allen Gamble who is a nerdy desk-bound officer concentrating on forensic accounting. Whereas Ferrell’s character is atypical of a NY law enforcement officer, he is partnered with detective, Terry Hoitz (played by Mark Wahlberg), who is more of what one expects from a New York plain clothes cop.

The movie’s dynamic centres on the opposites of

the two characters, and Ferrell’s performance is so convincing that the audience empathises with Hoitz’s frustration at dealing with such a jerk.

The laughs range from the ridiculous to slap stick while the action shots are clever and exciting.

Ferrell and Wahlberg are backed up by three other notable performances. Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson play two over-the-top hero detectives who solve the glamour jobs and get all the attention.

Michael Keaton plays the initially fairly straight role of everyone’s boss, captain Gene Mauch, and gets a chance to expand the role when his character is filmed in his second job as a retail sales manager.

The ensemble cast is also backed up by Eva Mendes’ good work as Gamble’s very attractive wife Dr Sheila Ramos Gamble, and Steve Coogan who plays a bumbling swindler, Sir David Ershon.

Marketers have been close to ruining all the fun of The Other Guys by including too many of the film’s gags in a variety of trailers that have been used heav-ily in all media to promote this flick.

Rated: M Genre: Action | Comedy Director: Adam McKayMain Cast: Will Ferrell

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The Sword – Warp Riders

Album: Warp RidersArtist: The SwordLabel: ShockReviewer: Jeff ElseJeff’s Rating: 8/10

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Reviewer: Robert GibsonRating: 7 1/2 out of 10

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net BEST PARENTS EVER!!! (Chainsaw Wakeup) A video getting some attention this week features a couple of kids who stayed up late watching scary mov-ies so to punish them, rather than grounding them, the dad gets a chainsaw and a clown mask and goes to town. www.youtube.com

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READY your ears for the most recent of awesome in the form of a metal / stoner / hard rock outfit hailing from Austin, Texas. I present to you The Sword. Warp Riders is their third album and first concept album (sci-fi inspired by 1980s comics and TV) and dishes up a healthy serving of classic tunes.

This album successfully mixes traditional elements of old-school metal and hard rock. Think mid 1980s Metallica jammed with Black Sabbath, Mastodon, Motorhead, ZZ Top and Clutch. That’s right, mix them all together and see what

you get, as I bet you would get The Sword performing Warp

Riders. With a running time of 48 plus minutes and consist-ing of 10 songs broken into two parts, Warp Riders features moments of metal melody that seamlessly builds to almost thrash and then back again, creating epic moments. I’m sure it will have its knockers that could say that it is nothing new, and unoriginal, but the first thing I did when the album was over was hit repeat. The Sword – Warp Riders deserves a solid 8/10 horned metal salutes. A group to keep an eye on.

ANDREW Günsberg is a man who needs very little introduction. A popular Australian TV and radio personality, “G” has been a host on Channel [V], Australian Idol, an ambassador of the Optus Sound Scribe program and is back in Australia for his photography exhibit, documenting a year in his very full-on life. I was lucky enough to secure an interview with Andrew last week... This last week has been pretty crazy for you mate, what’s it like being the inter-viewee rather than the interviewer?

It’s an interesting vibe being the focus of an in-terview, while also being there to push something else. I, like you, am really excited about the Optus Sound Scribe program, I can’t believe you got a gig (at the Bendigo Weekly) that’s awesome!

Cheers, it’s been a lot of fun, a great program all round. Tell us a bit about your 365 days photo gallery, what was the inspiration behind that one?

There’s an online photo streaming website called flickr, which has a bunch of different groups of people that are like ‘here are photos of flowers’ or ‘here are photos of planes landing’. Then there’s a group of about 19,000 people in a group called 365 days, where you take a self-portrait every day for a year. I’d noticed other people’s photography had improved immensely while doing this proj-ect. So I thought ‘I’ll do that, and push myself to be creative while documenting a year of my life’. I never shot it with the idea of exhibiting it, but then about two thirds of the way through it I got invited to come exhibit it.

Good to hear. Looking back on any of the photos did you ever � nd yourself thinking ‘What the hell was I doing that day?’

No actually, it was quite emotional hanging them all up to be honest, because I could tell by the look in my eye what I was feeling each day. That got pretty intense sometimes, in any year not every day is going to be an awesome day. Some days I didn’t feel like doing it, so yeah it was a bit emo-tional going through all the photos.

Your radio show in LA is going well mate?

I couldn’t have dreamed of a better start after fin-ishing up on Idol. Going straight into this brand new radio project never before attempted and live for another country - every week for Australia and 75 stations around the country. Amazing! It’s been an incredible 10 months.

That’s crazy, what would you say the big-gest differences between Australian and American radio are? The big difference between Australian and Amer-ican radio is that Australian radio is a lot more personal. American radio tends to just get out of the way...they only do one of two things: they’re either a personality-based station like your Ryan Seacrest show, or your Howard Stern Show...or they’re just all music, and that’s it. They don’t re-ally mix the two up.

So onto Optus Sound Scribe now mate, what are your thoughts on the program?

I really like the Optus Sound Scribe initiative because it’s helping young people from regional Australia to get a start in music journalism, which is a tricky industry to get a start in anyway. But in doing so, it is also helping young people in re-gional areas to get behind each other, so it’s sup-porting a community aspect.

But there’s also the fact that we have these 40 people writing about their local music scene, so therefore there’s all these bands that are getting exposure that haven’t gotten a lot of attention in the past.

So you’re a bass player mate? Yeah definitely, I probably play a little more six

string and piano these days though because a bass player without a band is a very lonely man.

I started playing guitar when I was eight, and moved to bass when I was 14.

I played in bands for the next 10 years, until I got a full time job in radio announcing and the band I was in kind of fizzled out. There’s only so often you can drive up and down the east coast of Queensland in a Toyota HiAce that smells like stale beer and roadside food farts before you think ‘you know what, I’d rather be home with my girl-friend’ [laughs].

Who were some of your favourite bassists at the time?

If I wanted to be any bass player, I’d have wanted to be Les Claypool. Because he was a little bit of Bootsy and a little bit of Flea, and I liked how weird he was. I was really into Claypool for a long time, still am.

I saw Primus back in the day, my favourite T-shirt got destroyed at that gig, but it didn’t mat-ter because Les stripped down to his underpants, and played the whole show in the weirdest pair of Y-fronts you ever did see! He pulled out the six-string custom and we all got very excited, and I was a very nerdy bass guitar guy, still am really!

Who are some of your favourite artists at the moment?

At the moment I can’t get enough of Rihanna and Lady Gaga. I love Lady Gaga because she’s a performance artist, but her art happens to be pop music. She’s not a pop musician. It’s amazing what she’s doing.

If the world were to follow you now where would you lead them?

I would lead the world to a place where good intention and benefit of the doubt are recognised as the most rewarding things a human being can experience, and to the realisation that we all live on a very, very small piece of rock floating in an enormously large expanse of space, and the soon-er that we get over our differences and figure out a way that we can get it all on together, the sooner we turn into giant green/blue Mardi Gras funball floating through space – I’d like to thank Henry Rolins for that last line.

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10.15am Healthy Eating with Brian Hosking, Vibrant Garden

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10.30am Refashioning your clothes with Nin Couts-Slate

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Tim is the owner/manager of The Dispensary Enoteca in Chancery Lane – bringing a bit of that Melbourne laneway culture to Bendigo. He has worked in restaurants since 1988 and moved here with his wife Anita. They now have two beauti-ful daughters and have been highly commended in the latest Age Good Food Guide with a score of 14/20 – just one point off getting a hat.

What’s most important thing in regard to food:Freshness and quality. I believe in ‘fresh is best’ and ‘quality over quantity’ and being able to enjoy a wide range of cuisines.

Where’s your favourite places to eat out and what do you love about it? Locally – The Whirrakee – they really care about foodLa Terazza – great laid back, family run business with unpretentious comfort food. Annie Smithers – superb produce cooked simplyYum Cha at The Golden Dragon Museum – great authentic Asian flavours.

Anywhere – The markets in Paris or Beijing, Ladro in Melbourne (my daughters favourite restaurant) and Victoria St. Richmond (we miss Vietnamese food!)

Describe your happiest food moment. Anytime cooking with my eight-year-old daughter Stellina. Her youthful enthusiasm and innocence make cooking a delight every single time.

What can’t you do without in your kitchen and why?Stellina for obvious reasons – irreplaceable, at least until my two year old daughter Amelita is old enough to take over.

What would your last meal be?The crab at Num Fong- the best meal in Melbourne ever! (Restaurant now closed – what a tease!)

If you could invite anybody for dinner who would it be..and why? My family, Alan Border, Keith Richards, Heather McKay, Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Paul Keating, Don Chipp, Helen Clark, Lalou Bize-Leroy and Tom Ford.

What would you cook?With that many people, it has to be a barbecue.

Which is your favourite foodie shop?Locally? Bendigo Wholefoods and Quinn’s Bluebird

Anywhere? Queen Victoria Market.

Have you a favourite chef or cookbook?Simple French Food by Richard Olney. Simple, achievable home meals.

What do you make of all the cooking shows currently on TV?Great. I hope they teach children and adults the importance and beauty of food and quality cooking, NOT fast food.

What does your favourite breakfast entail?Caviar and Blini’s at the European in Spring Street. Melbourne.

Where’s your favourite butcher?Erindale Farm and Flora Hill Meats. Good service,honest and reliable. The both have the ability to source excellent, high quality produce.

What’s your favourite cut of meat?Veal and crayfish. Subtle, testural and engagingand yabbies as they’re uniquely Australian.

What about your favourite vegetable? Leek – the gentleman’s onion.

Is there anything you won’t eat and why?I struggle to eat brains.

Are you a sweet tooth or savoury? Savoury. Salt is the greatest ingredient ever.

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With that many people, it has to be a barbecue.

Have you a favourite chef or cookbook?

What does your favourite breakfast entail?

Erindale Farm and Flora Hill Meats. Good service,

Veal and crayfish. Subtle, testural and engaging

What about your favourite vegetable?

Is there anything you won’t eat and why?

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BEN CAMERON asksALL good things must come to an end, and one of Australia’s most enduring comic duos have hung up their boots. After 20 years in the game, Rusty and John, better known as the Scared Weird Little Guys, are moving onto greener pastures. And after two decades on the comedy circuit, they depart with their funny bones very much intact...

Twenty years in the entertainment game is a long stretch. What’s the secret?JOHN: The � rst two years was � ne, but after then it became clear it was never going to last. But we realised we had a good thing going so we decided to keep plugging away.RUSTY: The year we formed was in 1990 when Collingwood won the � ag so we thought let’s give it a go until the Pies were in with another big chance again. RUSTY: There comes a time in every comedy duo’s life where you have to ask yourself “have we lasted longer than Lano and Woodley?” Then you say “yes, we can now close this chapter”.

Where do your ideas come from?RUSTY: We bounce ideas off each other all the time, making the whole process easier, if one might not be feeling the best, the other can pick up the slack.

What was the big break for you guys?Expo 88 was a landmark for us, it gave six days a week, four shows a day. It was the big kick for us.

You’ve worked with some big names, who has been a favourite?JOHN: We did some tours with Jason Alexander from Seinfeld and we got to sing a few songs with him. He was lovely, a good singer and good generous bloke. So are you guys like Hamish and Andy, best of mates?JOHN: It’s like a marriage. You wouldn’t say we were friends.

You guys are also good mates with Lano and Woodley. Is there a sharing of intellectual property?RUSTY: Yeah we have known those guys since about 1988 before we got our start and we were actually in a band with them called Plop where we would get together for Christmas comedy shows in Melbourne when our mantra was “always say yes to bad ideas”.

Would that be your advice to up and coming co-medians – try anything? Within reason of course.RUSTY: We did the theatre restaurant circuit for many years, you’ve just go to play as many gigs as you can. Doing eight shows a week for weeks on end, that’s how you hone your craft. You can’t buy those sort of skills. Eventually you get to a stage where there is no performing situation you are frightenend of.

Has that lack of fear � ltered into your own life?RUSTY: Very true, very good observation. If there’s an intruder in my house at 3am I don’t feel fazed

by that.

You could charm him out the door I guess. So what’s been the highlight of your career.RUSTY: So many. We have done shows with symphony orchestras, eight piece rock bands, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, toured North America.

What about when you warmed the crowd (95,000 people) up at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne for 45 minutes? RUSTY: That was amazing. We were given instructions to teach the crowd three dance moves. Unfortunately the Macadamia wasn’t one. The lights were turned off so we decided to get the crowd to do a camera � ash bulb Mexican wave.

That’s so cool.RUSTY: Yeah you can check it out on You Tube. It went for about a minute and it went the entire way around the MCG. We also got the northern stand and the southern stand to compete in a game of ping pong where the crowd had to go ‘pop’ with their mouth.Luckily the opportunity came to us after Lano and Woodley said no. They were a bit frightened of it but we were like “bring it on”.

Clever. What’s been the secret of your success? RUSTY: The musical element of our shows has kept us in good stead in many comedy situations, whether it’s performing to 95,000 people at the MCG or seven at a dinner party.

Which would you prefer? A grand performance or something more intimate?JOHN: The perfect size would be about 700 to 1000 people. We did some shows at the comedy festival back in 1997 and did three shows of about 1400 and there was a lovely wash of laughter. With the MCG performance though, I really couldn’t hear the audience as we had these little earphones and all we could hear was our-selves, our guitars and a guy saying “okay guys, you’ve got 17 minutes to go”.

Although I guess the good thing is you couldn’t hear any hecklers although I’m tipping a collective boo would do more to knock your con� dence.RUSTY: Yeah we were lucky there was no rehearsed chanting going on.

Is it hard work being funny? Is there constant pressure to be always tickling the funny bone?People often come up to you on the street and say “hey you’re that guy, say something funny”. So I usually just say “Uranus”.

This is your farewell tour. What happens after that?RUSTY: I’m going to start a Powerdinger cover band called Talcum Digit because I see an opening there. JOHN: I’m going to go into children’s entertaining actually like High Five, except it’ll be called High One and do children’s songs, basically I’ll be high.

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week 6. Bendigo’s Biggest Winner

Michele has a problem with the fact that I got her into doing this Biggest Winner thing. She’s not a big one on detail so when I said, “Hey, we should do this thing together” I appar-ently sounded really excit-ed and she promptly said “Yes” without realising what it was. Now she’s dug her heels in and is convinced that the 3kg that I lost, she has found and added it to her own frame……and it’s all my fault of course. So, my choice of Cyndi’s tip for the week is perhaps one that you’ll enjoy Michele:

KEN Duell and Lisa Mahon have been farming in Dunolly for more than 10 years and have been certi� ed organic A grade the whole time. The property has never had sprays on it and is a commercial permaculture farm. 

They started farming because they loved growing plants and the farm was a great place to bring up their two boys. They are part of willing workers on organic farms and have people from all over the world come and stay with them to learn about farming with nature.

They grow lettuce, snow peas, beans and garlic. They also supply Southern Light Herbs in Maldon with their nettle, passion� ower, lemon thyme, Melissa and rosemary. 

Ken and Lisa are passionate about producing the best quality gourmet crops and believe that healthy food shouldn’t just be good for you, it should be great for the environment too.

Extract from Cyndi O’Meara’s latest book Healthy Habits Healthy Life; Creating a Life of Health and Vitality one habit at a time. For more information go to www.changinghabits.com.au

Tip of the week. Eat good chocolate

Chocolate can be good for you but if you’re going to eat chocolate make sure you eat the best. Here are my rules for keeping chocolate in your diet:

• Eat chocolate without additives – look for the basic ingredients of cocoa, cocoa butter, organic cane juice and milk.

• Buy small single chocolates… not blocks.

• Savour the chocolate in your mouth and make it last! No chewing.

• Look for high-quality organic chocolate that’s good for you and good for the planet.

Producer Profi leBromley Organics

Location: Dunolly

Distance from GPO: 60kms

Began operation: 1998

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Friday 8 The Pub Angry Anderson and Alan Barnes (Classic Aussie Rock Show) 7pm | $25 The Hibernian Itchy Bits (covers) | 8pm | Free Shamrock Hotel Kyneton Taylor Sheridan (Acoustic Covers) 9pm | Free Old Hepburn Hotel Borne Idol (Pop/Rock Covers) | 11pm Newmarket Hotel Coralee w/Dan Walker & Liz Stringer | 9pm | $5 Basement Bar Taylah Hocking (Pop/Rock) w/support | 9pm | Free Pugg Mahones Farren Jones (Pop/Rock Covers) | 11pm Capital Theatre Jon English - The Rock Show

Saturday 9 Newmarket Hotel Bendigo Blues and Roots Festival Fundraiser 18 acts inc Urban Creatures, Andrew Higgs, Michelle Meehan, Chris Meek | 12pm | $15 The Hibernian Fat Bastards (covers) | 8pm | Free Basement Bar Kyle Taylor (Original Acoustic) w/support |9pm | Free Tyson’s Reef Hotel Graematta (Country/Rock) | 7.30pm | Free Daylesford Inn Venessa Craven ( Acoustic Folk) | 7.00pm | Free Old Hepburn Hotel Remedy (Acoustic Covers) | 9pm | Free The Palais The Paradise Motel $23 show / $58 dinner and show Pugg Mahones Contraband (Pop/Rock Covers | 11pm Kangaroo Flat Leisure Centre Freeza Battle of the Bands | 4 to 8pm | $15

Thursday 14 The Golden Vine Hotel Kurt Reifler w/support | 9pm | Free New Market Hotel Jam Session | From 9.30pm | Free

October

Friday 15 Newmarket Hotel Live Music (see venue for details) Basement Bar Kinimatic|9pm | Free The Hibernian Urban Creatures (Blues/Jazz/Country)| 8 to 11pm | Free Prince of Wales Showgrounds Powderfinger | 5pm | See Venue Daylesford Inn Open Mic/Folk w/ Feature Performer David Mandara 7pm | Free Old Hepburn Hotel Tommy B (Pop/Rock Covers) | 9pm | Free Pugg Mahones Creedance Clearwater Recycled | 11pm | $10

The Hibernian Chris DeAraugo (Pop/Rock Covers) | 1 to 4pm | Free Basement on View Live music Sunday feat. Old Buzzard Medicine

Show | 2pm | Free Basement Bar Open Mic Sunday Session | 4pm | Free Marong Family Hotel McAlpines Fusiliers (Celtic Rock) | 12.30 to 4pm | Free Old Hepburn Hotel Shades of Blue | 4pm | Free Tyson’s Reef Hotel Malibu & Friends Jam Session (Blues/Country/Rock | 3pm | Free

Sunday 10 Saturday 16 Newmarket Hotel Mystery Bets (Acoustic covers/original) |9.30pm | $5 Basement Bar The Adventure Spirit (Soul/Folk/Funk)|9pm | Free The Hibernian Old Buzzard Medicine Show (Blues/Country/Roots)| 8-11pm | Free Daylesford Inn Venessa Craven (Acoustic Folk) | 7pm | Free Shamrock Hotel Kyneton Trigger Men | 9pm | Free Old Hepburn Hotel Live Music (see venue for details) Theatre Royal Mojo JuJu and The Jitterbug Club | 8pm | $22.50 Old Fire Station Undue Noise Experimental Music and Film | 8pm | Free

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Tuesday 12

The Golden Vine Hotel Jam Session| 8.30pm | Free

Wednesday 13 Capital Theatre Kasey Chambers (see venue for details)

The Central Club Richmond Abreact| Found and Out Battle of the Bands|Support a local Bendigo band | 8pm | $15

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