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MOTORCYCLES Wanted.Dead or alive. Anythingconsidered. Private retiredevery day rider will travel,collect and pay cash. Anymake, any model, any area.Call Robert, 0418 170 627.If I don’t answer I am on thebike and will call back.

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WANTED: Contacty detailsfor Darul Hooper, son of thelate Max Hooper, formerChief Engineer 3DB, a closecolleague of my fatherRudolph Buring, also anelectronics engineer.- Harry Buring, Reservoir,9470 1373.

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ARCH LEVER Files. Large.Mint Condition. Box of 30.$25. Surrey Hills. 0419538 015.

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PALM TREES. Kentia GreenSeedling. From $15. 2-3Metre with lush green foliage.$40. Burwood. 0401 5321 2 8 .

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MELBOURNE CUP winnerMakybe Diva. Framed. 3’ x2’6”. Mint cond. $30.Ormond. 9578 2134.

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FOWLERS bottling outfit.Electric. 100 jars, lids, clips,books, etc. Free to someonewho lost their’s in fire. Pickup in Eltham. Free. 94395 8 0 5 .

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TV ANTENNA. High gain digitaland analogue. $50. Bun-doora. 9467 4410.

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VIDEO Cassette Recorder.National. GC. $20.Bundoora. 9467 4410.

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Melbourne

PeopleCam Butler launches CD

■ Save My Soul (Symphony No. 3) is the follow upalbum to electric guitarist and composer CamButler's 2008 album, Dark Times (Symphony No.2).

Featuring a true symphonic lineup of a 23-piecestring section (conducted by Benjamin Northey),orchestral harp, timpani and percussion, drums,acoustic guitars and solo electric guitar, the result isthe finest example yet of Cam's orchestral vision tocombine modern electric guitar techniques and soundwith string orchestras.

With a timeless, quasi-modal sound, the musicof Save My Soul is deliberately written in relatedkeys - A minor, A major, D minor - and has a basic 3/4 pulse through each of the five movements or tracks.

Like all of Cam's music, Save My Soul is com-pletely musically unique: deceptively simple, themusic carries many layers of deep emotion and lushbeauty.

Not slipping into any easy categories, Save MySoul exists in its own world between cinematic or-chestral music, modern classical and Australian un-derground guitar music.

Save My Soul is available exclusively at con-certs or online at www.cambutler.com

Save My Soul will be launched at a special multi-media concert with mulitple screens, projections andsurround sound audio at the Northcote UnitingChurch, 251 High St. Northcote, on Saturday, May19.

Another launch concert will be held on Saturday,May 26 at Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, with SethRees.

www.cambutler.comwww.youtube.com/user/cambutlersavemysoul

Ron Blaskett’s 90th party

●●●●● Cam Butler

●●●●● Gerry Gee with Ron Blaskett■ Melbourne entertainer Ron Blaskett, perhapsbest known from his Tarax Show days with GerryGee on Channel 9, celebrated his 90th birthday onFriday. Family members gathered at a Templestowerestaurant on Sunday to celebrate the event.

Blaskett spoke with Philip Brady and SimonOwens on 3AW to mark the special birthday.

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NOMINEES LISTED FOR JAZZ AWARDS■ The 2012 AustralianJazz Bell Awards nomina-tions with winners havebeen announced.

Winners will be an-nounced at a ceremony, tohosted by Tracey Curro,at the Regent TheatreBallroom on Thursday,May 3.

Jazz fans can expect aunique experience on thenight with the presentationof eight award categories,live performances and aspecial presentation to thewinner of this year'sGraeme Bell Hall of Fameinductee.

Featuring some of thebrightest talent in the Aus-tralian jazz scene, thenominees for 2012 Austra-lian Jazz Bell Awards are:

Australian Jazz VocalAlbum

■ Briana Cowlishaw,When Fiction Comes toLife■ Kristin Berardi MeetsThe Jazzgroove Mother-ship Orchestra, KristinBerardi Meets TheJazzgrooveMothership Orchestra■ Lisa Young Quartet,The Eternal Pulse

Most Original Austra-lian Jazz Album

■ Chiri, The Return ofSpring■ Peter Knight, Fish

●●●●● Graeme Bell

Boast of Fishing■ Sandy Evans Sextet,When the Sky Cries Rain-bowsBest Australian Contem-

porary Jazz Album■ Allan Browne, MarcHannaford, Sam Anning,Shreveport Stomp■ Kristin Berardi MeetsThe Jazzgroove Mother-ship Orchestra, KristinBerardi Meets TheJazzgroove MothershipOrchestra■ Nick Haywood Quar-tet, 1234Best Australian Tradi-

tional Jazz Album■ Allan Browne, Col-

lected Works Volume II:Fifty Years of New Or-leans Jazz■ Daniel Weltlinger,Souvenirs■ The Syncopaters,Hook Line and Sinker

Best Australian JazzSong of the Year

■ Kristin Berardi MeetsThe Jazzgroove Mother-ship Orchestra, Mr Jack-son, Kristin Berardi MeetsThe JazzgrooveMothership Orchestra■ Daniel Gassin Sextet,Banff Song, DanielGassin Sextet■ Luke Howard andJanos Bruneel, Spir, Open

RoadBest Australian Jazz

Ensemble■ Andrea Keller Quartet■ Matt Keegan Trio■ Sandy Evans SextetYoung Australian Jazz

Artist of the Year■ Alex Boneham■ Ken Allars■ Sarah McKenzie

The winner of theGraeme Bell Hall of Fame- in recognition of an out-standing career - will beannounced on the night.

The coveted Austra-lian Jazz Bell Awards -better known as 'TheBells' - honour one of thegreats of Australian jazz- Graeme Bell with theHall of Fame award and

was established torecognise and encourageexcellence in the perfor-mance, recording andpresentation of jazz inAustralia.

Albert Dadon, Chair-man of the AustralianJazz Awards, says: 'Thisyear's Jazz Bell Awardshas introduced a newaward category to ensurethat the full variety of jazzartists in Australia can berecognised.''

The annual awards area great opportunity for allartists to be recognised inthe vibrant Australian jazzscene for achievementsacross all categories ofjazz.

www.bellawards.org

RACING HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

London reading for Roland■ Victorian-based writer Roland Rocc-hiccioli is excited about a forthcoming Lon-don reading of his latest work, The GreatestIs Love.

Hugh Bonneville and CatherineLangrishe will perform the staged readingat Theatre Royal, Brighton, UK, as a privatefunraising event for Martlets Hospice.

The reading is being staged by the Am-bassador Theatre Group. Bonneville hasfeatured in Downton Abbey, and Langrishewas seen in Judge John Deed.

The Greatest Is Love follows the love let-ters of one couple, Rupert and Diane, span-ning their lives, including World War II.

ANZACDayConcertat TownHall■ What do you do with the rest of the dayonce you have been to the ANZAC Day DawnService and march?

CHIME (Choral Institute MelbourneInc) Choir suggests you join them at theMelbourne Town Hall at 2.30 pm for a spe-cial ANZAC Day concert on Wednesday,April 25.

This is the second year that CHIME hasperformed an ANZAC Day concert, and asthe inaugural concert was so well attendedthat it proved that modern day Melburnianswant to mark and remember this importantday with music and a community spirit.

Hosted by former ABC 774 personalityDerek Guille, in this year's concert CHIMEis joined by the Exaudi Choir and theMelbourne Villers-Bretonneux Brass En-semble.

Adding to the array of talent on theMelbourne Town Hall stage will be crowdpleasing Melbourne tenor Roy Best andmusic theatre star Silvie Paladino, with Tho-mas Heywood at the famous MelbourneTown Hall organ.

A particularly good reason for buying yourticket to the CHIME ANZAC Day concert isthe fact that proceeds will be shared betweenthe RSL, Legacy, Carry On (Victoria) andCHIME Inc.

Tickets are $35 and $30 concession, andcan be booked at www.chime.org.au/tick-ets. General enquiries: 0404 196 733

- Julie Houghton

●●●●● Roy Best

■ Dual Melbourne Cup winning jockeyJim Cassidy was announced as one of10 inductees into the Australian RacingHall of Fame on Friday.

Affectionately known as ‘Pumper’,Cassidy joins an esteemed list of induct-ees across the categories of jockey,horse, trainer and associate and fittinglyhas been inducted at a ceremony in hishome town of Sydney.

Cassidy joins modern day contempo-raries Damien Oliver and DarrenBeadman in the Hall of Fame as jock-eys who currently still ply their trade to-day and is the only jockey to be inductedstill competing in Australian racing.

The official induction ceremony washeld in the Grand Ballroom of the FourSeasons Hotel in Sydney on Fridayevening and was held in conjunction withthe 2012 Australian Racing Conference.

In the jockey category, Csssidy joinsBernborough’s rider Athol Mulleyamong this year’s inductees while the2012 trainer inductees are MelbourneCup winning trainer Grahame Heagneyand two-time Victorian trainerspremiership winner Theo Lewis.

For the first time since 2005, the Aus-tralian Racing Hall of Fame has inductedfive of the sports equine heroes.

International hero and ‘bargain buy’Takeover Target joins 1991 Caulfield andMelbourne Cup heroine Let’s Elope,ten-time Group 1 champion Octagonal,the Tommy Smith-trained Redcraze andmultiple Group 1 victor High Caste arethe five horse inductees for 2012.

One of the men synonymous with thelegendary Phar Lap, his famous strap-per Aaron Treve ‘Tommy’ Woodcock, isthe inductee in the associate category in2012.

●●●●● Jim Cassidy

Media Flashes■ The stage show, War Horse, iscoming to Melbourne’s ArtsCentre. A media call is beingheld today (Wed.) where Pup-petry Director Finn Caldwell in-troduces the star of the showJoey, a life size horse puppetstrong enough for men to ride,his flanks, hide and sinews builtof steel, leather and aircraftcables.■ Network 10’s first-half profitsunk by 70 per cent.■ Seven West Media has left theAustralian Press Council. Thecompany publishes The WestAustralian.■ Little Big Shots - Mel-bourne’s own international filmfestival for kids - will belaunched for the eighth year onSaturday, June 2. Eighty shortfilms will be featured.

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■ The guidebooks will tell you thatBray, about an hour’s drive west ofLondon, is the archetypal English ru-ral village.

It’s all about little thatched cottages,a cricket ground on which they’vethwacked the leather since 1798, aparish church dating back to 1293, anda pub where King Charles II woulddally with his mistress Nell Gwynnfor whom he had arranged convenientaccommodation in nearby Windsor.

But Bray is anything than your run-of-the-mill English village, and youneed to be more than well-heeled toeven contemplate owning so much asa cottage here, never mind berthingthe boat at the local marina on theRiver Thames.

Expatriate Aussie Rolf Harris livesin Bray, as does former TV talk-showhost Sir Michael Parkinson, EltonJohn lives just upstream and is some-times seen dining in Bray, and so tooNatalie Imbruglia.

And well they might, for Bray hassuddenly found itself the gastronomiccapital of Britain.

Now before you start chortling thatone of the shortest books in the worldis A Treasury of English Cooking, weshould point out that one HestonBlumenthal is the latest to make Brayhis home, and if others can cook up astorm, he can cook up a tornado.

Back in the 1980s Blumenthal, whoactually grew up a stone’s throw fromBray, taught himself to be a chef by

■ We don’t know if many othersmake it, and would be interested tohear of any who do, but LillypillyEstate’s Robert Fiumara has an in-teresting blend that he’s trademarkedas Tramillon – a medium dry whitecreated from Gewurztraminer andSemillon.

He’s been making it since 1982 athis winery at Leeton in the Riverina,and is seeing it enjoy healthy salesboth here and overseas, especially hesays in the UK.

By bringing together the spicy andfragrant Gewurztraminer and thecrisp, dry freshness of Semillon he’scrafted a wine from the 2010 vintagethat’s got a slightly sweet edge to it,rockmelon flavours with subtle limeand a hint of sherbert, and is a mar-vellous match for spicy Asian dishes.

You can order it direct from thewinery at $13.50 (plus freight) onwww.lillypilly.com

And ask also about their 2012Sauvignon Blanc that at $14.50 is oneof those easy-drinking, zippy drywhites that goes ideally with all kindsof casual dining from crab cakes toMexican-style chicken and grilledseafoods.

Pictured■ Slighty sweet Tramillon marvel-lous match with spicy Asian dishes■ Enjoy this one with pork cutletsand an apple and date relish

●●●●● The Fat Duck

studying French cookery books ... justas many of us taught ourselves thebasics of the kitchen with MargaretFulton’s Cook Book.

The difference is that he ended upone of the best chefs in the world, andopened The Fat Duck restaurant inBray in 1995.

Within five years he had won him-self no less than three Michelin stars.

And in 2006, his Fat Duck wasnamed Best Restaurant in the World,beating out El Bulli, a restaurant in aremote village north of Barcelona,while Frommers, the famous travelguide, named The Fat Duck one ofthe world’s “must-visit” food and wineestablishments.

Yet it’s a quite unpretentious build-ing, and inside simply a large squarewith white-walls, wooden beams hold-ing up the ceiling, and a bare floor.

But look more closely outside andit can be almost garlanded with Roll-ers and Jaguars and their uniformedchauffeurs, together with a smatter-ing of Ferraris and Beamers.

It’s the menu, of course, that ac-counts for the fact that you have tobook months in advance, although youcan be excused for wondering howHeston dreamed up some of thedishes on that menu.

And the ‘Tasting Menu’ will putyou back 180 pounds (around AU$275per head) – before you even look atthe wine list or consider the ‘optional’12.5 per cent service charge.

Amongst some of HestonBlumenthal’s creations are aPommery mustard ice cream accom-panied by red cabbage gazpacho,roast foie gras with barberry, braisedkonbu (seaweed harvested off Japanand Korea) and crab biscuit, or hishugely popular snail porridge withIberico Bellota ham and shaved fen-nel…

There’s also a more homely porkloin pot roast that comes with a gratinof truffled macaroni, or how aboutsalmon poached in licorice gel andartichokes, vanilla mayonnaise andgolden trout roe?

Or a saddle of venison withbeetroot soubise and risotto of speltand umbles … yes, umbles, the 14thcentury offal dish that gave its nameto the expression “eating humble pie,”and of which British diarist SamuelPepys wrote in July 1663 “MrsTurner did bring us an Umble-pie hotout of her oven, (it was) extraordinar-ily good.”

But Heston Blumenthal’s successalso brought its problems.

Where to put the many movers andshakers wanting to sample his culi-nary delights, but unable to get intoThe Fat Duck?

His answer was to buy the village’stwo pubs, although to the consterna-tion of many locals.

After all it was at one, The Crownthat King Charles II would dally withNell Gwynn.

This was British heritage he waspossibly interfering with if he changedthe structure of The Crown …

But their fears were soon allayed.Heston made few changes, addedsome of his own creations to the pubs’menus, and maintained such tradi-tional British pub fare as bangers andmash, and fish and chips … with theHeston Blumenthal touch, of course.

One For Lunch■ The Margaret River’s VoyagerEstate had one of their best-evergrowing seasons in 2010, followedby an outstanding vintage for theirred wines, especially their interest-ing Girt by Sea Cabernet Merlotblend.

Manager of Winemaking andViticulture, Steve James says Mar-garet River has been “incrediblylucky” in recent years with a stringof great vintages, the 2010 givingexceptional fruit purity, eleganceand fine silky tannins for reds thathave been some of the region’s bestto date.

The 2010 Girt by Sea CabernetMerlot is only Voyager’s secondsuch blend, and actually includes a1per cent touch of Petit Verdot and1per cent Shiraz to the 60 per centCabernet Sauvignon and 38 percent Merlot.

It’s resulted in a medium-bod-ied wine with delightful summerberry, cherry and plum fruitflavours, together with softer hintsof vanilla, spice and nougat.

Pay $24 and enjoy with pork cut-lets and apple and date relish.


Victoria Pictorial Historic Photo Collection

●●●●● ANZAC parade: Bourke St, Melbourne. 1917.●●●●● ANZAC Memorial Service held at the MCG, 1917.

●●●●● Australian Women’s Army Service members, Melbourne. 1962.

●●●●● First World War veteran carries a banner. Melbourne. Early 1960s ●●●●● ANZAC Day marchers. Prince’s Bridge, Melbourne. 1945.

●●●●● ANZAC Day. Melbourne. 1964. ●●●●● ANZAC Day March. Crossing Flinders St, Melbourne. 1943.

●●●●● War veterans. ANZAC Day march, Melbourne. 1962.

Melbourne Observer. 120418B. April 18, 2012. Part B. Pages 27-36

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