A morning with the people who raise our beef
Trevor Gardner and Todd Barrett spent a morning on a cattle station near Barcaldine. What they learned about the beef that arrives at Gidgee House.
supplier · beef · station
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What the wool buyers left behind
The upstairs room at Gidgee House in Barcaldine was once a wool agent's sample floor. A look at the beams, the skylights and the marks left by the trade.
building · history · upstairs
Megan Patel at the wheel
Meet Megan Patel, croupier at Gidgee House in Barcaldine: how she learned the wheel, why she moved inland and the trick to explaining blackjack in a minute.
croupier · staff · roulette
Along Oak Street: the neighbours we'd miss
A short walk along Oak Street in Barcaldine, past the neighbours who feed, mend and welcome the town, and who keep Gidgee House honest.
neighbours · oak street · town
A Sunday soup lunch at the long table
The friends of the house gathered for their monthly soup lunch at Gidgee House in Barcaldine. Pea and ham, warm damper and a teaching table for newcomers.
club · lunch · friends
Who took the brass cup on Friday night
Last Friday's tournament ladder at Gidgee House ended in a long heads-up duel. A short account of the night, the final table and the chalkboard's newest name.
tournament · poker · ladder
A new card with more camp oven and a better pavlova
Trevor Gardner has reworked the menu at Gidgee House in Barcaldine: more camp-oven cooking, a reworked pavlova and soup that arrives with proper damper.
menu · camp oven · dessert
The cool evenings are back on Oak Street
The first cool evenings bring travellers, soup and a fuller verandah to Gidgee House in Barcaldine. Here is how we get the house ready for the busy months.
season · soup · verandah