John Lewis

2 weeks ago | sheppnews.com.au | John Lewis

When was the last time you read a book? Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content Not a recipe book, or a How to Change Your Life in Ten Post-It Notes sort of book. I mean, a proper book. A solid 500-page fictional doorstop of a window into another human being’s life, like Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina. Or a five-book epic fantasy like Game of Thrones, even a big Aussie crime drama like The Dry.

3 weeks ago | sheppnews.com.au | John Lewis

Let’s face it, we all make bad decisions once in a while. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content Wrong shirt, stupid socks, lemon car, just one more for the road, wrong wife/husband — these are all what you might call bad personal calls. Then there are the bad collective calls. The Victorian Government made a profoundly bad collective call when it decided to more than double the tax on farmers during a drought.

1 month ago | sheppnews.com.au | John Lewis

He’s finally here, with his bristle beard the colour of dry wood and a threadbare jacket of tumbling leaves. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content Waiting for winter this year has been like expecting an old uncle to arrive any moment with his firewood and warm gloves to tell the party of raging teenagers in T-shirts it’s time to wind things up and go home. Our Indian summer just hung around until it was looking like the new normal.

1 month ago | countrynews.com.au | John Lewis

He’s finally here, with his bristle beard the colour of dry wood and a threadbare jacket of tumbling leaves. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content Waiting for winter this year has been like expecting an old uncle to arrive any moment with his firewood and warm gloves to tell the party of raging teenagers in T-shirts it’s time to wind things up and go home. Our Indian summer just hung around until it was looking like the new normal.

1 month ago | countrynews.com.au | John Lewis

Some things are just so perfect, there’s no point in trying to change them. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content The classic shape of a guitar with its sensuous curves, slender neck and delicate headstock is so beautifully human it resists any kind of alteration or improvement.