I ducked into the Melbourne Writers’ Festival yesterday and looped my DSLR around my neck in the hopes of getting some nice shots. Early for my session, I spent my time wandering around the NGV Man Style exhibition (one quibble: it was quite small – I wanted more!), the Children’s Literature market, and the David…
As I mentioned on Wednesday, it’s Book Week and I thought it would be a good time to post how Keira went this year in the Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge. (Here’s last year’s list.) Here is the official tally (in random order – as you’ll see!). 1 Rowling, J. K. ~ Harry Potter and the…
These are the only photos I’ve managed to upload of Book Week from when I was in primary school, although there are many others still back at mum’s house. I was proudest most of all of my Dorothy costume from the Wizard of Oz, complete with flashy red shoes (not pictured). From memory, the clown…
I come home to work with an almost gleeful relief on the days Riley has preschool. I can usually tell if I’m feeling a little off or not after I kiss him goodbye and watch him skip off to join the circle of his other friends. If I linger, it’s purely on the chance I…
The last time I had a professional do my makeup was for my author photographs I had done at the beginning of 2008 for the promotional materials I had made up for Surprise! However, they turned out so badly (read: bright and not suited to my skin tone) I converted them to black and white…
… my daughter is quite happy to share her thoughts on the subject! Awww… 🙂
Today is my fifth blogging birthday. Yes it’s hard to believe it’s been five years since I decided to give this thing called blogging a go. I joined Blogspot just as Google was finishing its takeover (some of y’all might remember its ‘Beta’ period. Ah, memories). Communities have risen – and fallen. Some bloggers have…
I was recently re-reading an essay by Peter Porter called ‘The Old Good Books’ where he talks about how our reading is shaped by our formative years and how our recollections of favourite texts are so ingrained because at the time they are competing with other texts (like study materials). He wonders if, as we…
