A Package Tour - For Hampers And Suitcases

I SPENT four days in Queensland last week. My suitcase spent three. Food hampers of exotic Christmassy goodies, intended as gifts for our rural friends from the glittering city of Sydney, didn't make it. I concentrated on the dwindling number of suitcases that were sniffed and trampled by exuberant dogs before being paraded round on the carousel. When no baggage or beagles remained, a fellow bagless passenger jumped onto the conveyor belt to peer through the hole in the wall that had given birth ...

Snappy Hampers

The best springtime picnics do not call for hundreds of Victorian comestibles spread as far as the eye can see. They are meant to be easy, both to prepare and to devour. Take what you feel like eating and leave the rest at home where it belongs: no little jars of condiments, no containers of this and that, no mucking around with fiddly little bits and no decisions to make.

Feed The Baby, Fuel The Future

Long after Bob Hawke's 1990 target, many Australian children still live in poverty, Peter Jensen writes.

Pampering Mums An Unhampered Delivery

JULIE Sutherland does not forget the new mothers when she makes up attractive bundles for her growing business Hunter Hampers. Included among the nappies, powders and lots of other useful bits and pieces for bub is a nightie and some beauty cream products for mum. `The idea is to give somethin

Summer Picnic Hampers

PICNICS are the perfect way of showing you care for someone in a practical way. For lovers, a picnic of favourite foods eaten in a beautiful location is the ultimate in romance. For families, picnics are a great way to get everyone out-of-doors, away from the television and computer games, t

Picnic Where A Bear's A Necessity

There were teddy bears of all colours and sizes - pink, white, yellow, brown, big and small - and they came from all over Sydney for the 11th Annual Sun-Herald Teddy Bears Picnic. They perched on people's hats, poked their heads out of prams and picnic hampers, and sunned themselves on th