Pop on your gumboots take a trip around the farm of Blueprint's resident chef, Annie Smithers… because we're finding some treats for Santa and his reindeers. Then, we'll hop in the ute and head over to meet a new addition to the rudimental family, award-winning garden designer Paul Bangay.

Glenda, Julie, Angela, Leesa and Paul generously agreed to join Blueprint for their next worldwide exclusive media appearance, and share a new recipe for Blak Christmas

An odyssey of loukamades, fir trees and feasts for a Patron Saint

It's certainly easy to dismiss the huge showrooms that dot our suburban retail parks as nothing more than sheds but in America in 1972, one company decided to change that.

Writer, critic and poet Gail McConnell takes us to the place of her childhood in East Belfast. Her latest poetry collection, The Sun Is Open, rifles through a box of artefacts related to the life and death of her father, who was murdered by the Irish Republican Army outside their home in 1984.

Their new book, Country: Future Fire, Future Farming, examines Indigenous Australian land management and why its implementation is crucial to bringing down the intensity of fires, and the realisation of a more sustainable world.

In the aftermath of long lockdowns — particularly in Australia's east — hospitality businesses are having trouble sourcing and retaining staff. But for journalist Dani Valent, the pandemic isn't entirely to blame, as a cocktail of wage-theft, long working hours, and an oft-undervalued profession are inflecting the recovery.

It's a global tourist mecca, drawing in visitors to its Wes Anderson-like dreamscape of pastel-coloured row houses, quaint lemon yellow trams, and cobblestone streets cascading down to a glittering river mouth. But dig a little deeper, and you'll find the darker histories beneath Lisbon's bright veneer.