Sorting and Searching Olive’s Kitchen

Robin Boyle General Interest, Miscellaneous, News-Events

New: In May and June we implemented various methods for searching and filtering the Olive’s Kitchen website. Thus, in addition to the main Menu, you can now use Categories, Tags, Sort and Search. These are summarised below. However, please be patient with the loading speed for some of the links as the large photographic content takes a little longer to …

Forty years at Main Ridge Estate

Robin Boyle Melbourne & Victoria, Miscellaneous, News-Events, Recipe, Wine

In 1975, Rosalie and Nat White (Rhonda’s sister and brother-in-law) bought a lemon orchard at Main Ridge, near Red Hill and Arthurs Seat, on the Mornington Peninsula. Their goal was to establish a vineyard and make wine that they hoped would be of exceptional quality. From a risky beginning … With all but one of the lemon trees soon uprooted, …

GST Changes and Fresh Food

Robin Boyle Miscellaneous, News-Events

If the full GST model is implemented, expect fresh food, fruit and vegetables in particular, to increase in price by 15% and expect your ‘cost of living’ to go up by around 10%. Today, Friday 11 December 2015, the Australian Federal Government will be meeting with the state governments at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to discuss tax reform, …