NATURE’S WAY

THERE IS A NATURAL theme that runs through all the threads of Harriet Birrell’s life as well as the people and things she loves to have around her. It plays out in her idyllic relaxed country/coastal lifestyle in a tiny shack on the Bellarine Peninsula on the south coast of Victoria that she shares with her partner sustainable building designer Fraser West and their constant companion and blue-eyed rescue dog Fred, a four-year-old koolie border collie cross. Harriet lives by a simple, down-to-earth philosophy that manifests in her affinity with nature, the freedom of the beach where she surfs the waves as often as she can, and in the ethical, healthy choices she