I’m home, everyone. What a weekend. I don’t think I slept more than a few consecutive hours each night. I’ll write about it in stages over this week, as I am quite tired.

It was an exciting Friday afternoon. Some of you may know that central Melbourne was partially evacuated due to a chemical leak.

That was me.

Behold what I saw when I looked out my hotel window mid-afternoon:

The beginning

Uh. That looks a little funny…

The plot thickens...

(Several minutes later)
That’s looking pretty serious. I wonder what’s going on?

Masks on - they're going in!

Um. He’s going in! WITH A FULL MASK ON. I think I’ll get out of here for a while…

So I left my hotel as I was getting a bit suspicious (also: PARANOID) When I came back three-quarters of an hour later, I couldn’t get back in!

Big block-off

(See that yellow motel sign? Yep, that was me. Turned out if I had stayed they would’ve come up and thrown me out anyway.)

I didn’t get back inside for another 90 minutes. That didn’t matter – I went and met Adele in the meantime!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post – my host’s introduction speech to ‘The Revolution will be Downloaded’ panel, which went smashingly well, thanks.

karen andrews

Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity