Category Archives: 62 Mile Radius

We all know the countryside is a patchwork of colour at this time of year but a barn near Duranillin has a particularly bright story. For 15 years Heather Jefferies has been hosting patchwork retreats for creative souls from the north and south of WA but here in this barn Heather also makes quilts for orphaned children in...

Was it love at first teapot when Barlee and Robyn Jones drank from a double-spouted teapot covered in red hearts? Well, since that day, the Jones’s have collected 5500 teapots and they have a story to go with every one of them. They have animal teapots, gold plated teapots, teapots about different song’s, fairytales, era’s, cultures. The mind boggles....

  Friendly Service, Great Coffee, Homemade Food. Quirky and Intimate. Located on a street named Burrowes. These are some of things that were considered when Pam and Wayne Stockley decided to name their cafe Rarebits on Burrowes. This charming rural cafe is a real a gem. Filled to the brim with books, ornaments, retro home wares, art, photography, stuffed...

Sitting quietly in a paddock 10km’s outside Darkan on the road to Quindanning is Six Mile Cottage, the fascinating tworoom slab house built in the 1900’s by sleeper cutter Dick Strange.                         Six Mile Cottage is beautifully restored and offers a fascinating insight into a way of...