Life / January 17th, 2014
We had family come and stay with us between Christmas and New Year. Such visits always demand a flurried and frenzied cleanup, and this occasion was no different. My regular cleaning habits are lax – to say the least – so when I went to open the washing tub door in the laundry, where we…
Here’s my garden, as of 12.30pm this afternoon, utterly toasted. Boo. In all honesty, though, it wasn’t much of a magnificent sight before this heat wave rolled through the state. Feast or famine, they’re the two ways my tomatoes tend to grow, and I’ve not had a feast since 2010 and this in 2008: (I’ll interrupt…
I sat down recently and did some calculations to work out in what areas I made my money blogging last year, then to break that down statistically to get a ‘bigger picture’ perspective. It was a personal exercise, done out of curiosity more than any other reason, however once the numbers were in front of…
Read / January 10th, 2014
Oh, boy, Melbourne has been dealing out some fickle weather lately, but I’ve been trying to take that into my stride when it comes to finding opportunities to read. Want to sit under a blanket with a book? Sure! Want to stretch out in the hammock under the sun? Sure! So, to the reading pile….
I can list several indictors as proof of this post’s importance: I’ve been drafting it in my head for days, and then in a Word document (as opposed to straight into the WordPress dashboard), which I’ve kept revisiting, sitting down and looking over these words. Towards the end of last year, and I’ve touched on…
As we all sat together at the dinner table just before the new year, I pulled out a sheet of paper and a pen and asked if anyone had anything they wanted to accomplish in 2014. Usually this kind of request is met with tremendous protest, slumping in chairs and quick excuses to leave the…
The season one program for 2014 at Writers Victoria has been released. You can see it here and here’s the course that I’ll be teaching: Blogging 1.0 – Getting Started Here’s the blurb: “Just started your blog or want to take it to the next level? This two-day course will show you how to get established, plan…
How are you all feeling today? Ruined and indelicate? Or chipper and full of joie de vivre? Tell me your resolutions for the year! Or is ‘resolutions’ a dirty, impractical, ill-fitting word? (Do you prefer ‘goals’?) Do you need a kick along? A cheer squad? Let me know – happy to do what I can! x…
Remember my goals for 2013? It’s okay if you don’t – truth be told, I had to go back and refresh my memory as to what they were. Luckily, I put them in a handy (albeit scratchily drawn) infographic, so here they are again. Looking at these now the first feeling I get is of…
