My blogging goal for this year was never focused on numbers. It never is, really. I can understand the desire to achieve a certain tally of subscribers or followers or hits or fans and I’ve been told I really should worry about it more if I’m going to be a ‘Serious’ or ‘Professional’ Blogger. [But…
I’m not quite sure how to write about Christmas, now I’m here typing about it. Too often I wonder about pictures and articles that harp on about decorations that seem to worry too much about appearances: it’s like a “my Christmas was way more beautiful and tasteful than yours” competition. Which is funny, if you…
I’ll do a proper Christmas post soon (‘proper’ meaning ‘PRESENTS, PRESENTS, PRESENTS’), but I’ll start the day’s recap with what happened right at the end of yesterday afternoon. For anyone who’s not heard, Melbourne had tremendous storms yesterday; our patch of the city copped bad hail. Observe! This is a view of our back deck…
A couple of hours ago I sent around the email to all the commenters for 2011, thanking you all for your support and contributing to the overall sense of community here at Miscellaneous Mum. If you have commented at some point over the year but didn’t receive the email, it might be an idea to…
Deck the Halls with Boughs of…. la la… whatever… Look at me, I see the irony. Me, rallying against Christmas consumerism when I was born in one of its major mangers – otherwise known as a Bunnings warehouse – on a day when the parents of my maker were shopping for Christmas. I’m a…
It’s going to be a busy blogging day today, so I’ll jump right into the news. First, I have a guest post up over at Problogger called ‘5 Blogging Lessons From NaBloPoMo ‘. This was the post I mentioned I was going to write about #nablopomo and #nanowrimo last month. It seems so long ago…
I made this dessert for our wedding anniversary dinner during the week. Adam and I didn’t exchange presents on the day because we’d already done so earlier. Adam’s was … something I’ll talk about later; mine was a brand new iPhone 4. Yes, I now get to harass Siri and ask her sexually suggestive questions and think…
This weekend is the launch of issue eight called Gambit of the journal dotdotdash. I’m pleased to say that I have a short story included called ‘An Existence in Heat’. I don’t go a lot into the processes involved when it comes to the way I write my offline creative work here on the blog. This…
Edited to add: I’ve made a video with additional details. A recent weekend holiday down at Phillip Island was just what we needed. Here’s some photos and some extra information for people who haven’t been before. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that it was our first trip there. 1. A Maze’N Things Friends advised us…
