We’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip back to NSW to visit Adam’s family and attend his hometown’s 150th birthday celebrations. As is the way, I got sick with some demon tonsillitis thing on the way up and was either sleeping or sweating (or pouting, see photo) for a few days while I tried to shake…
Two or so years after letting my subscription to The New Yorker lapse – and enduring the paper campaign that ensued, pleading for my return – I recently re-subscribed: thanks, in part, to the prompting by Twitter pals Anna Spargo-Ryan and Mamabook, but mostly because I plain missed it. The picture above is the first…
We are four out of twenty-three million*, called down to the sports oval by a dancing wind, the open sky and a slow-baked April sun. Degrees are just numbers though, as are population statistics, I thought, as we tossed the basketball to each other. Playing schoolyard games, diving for a catch – this is how…
Products from top right, clockwise: White Document Drawer With Inbox, White Martha Stewart Pen Cup, Blue Pocket Wall Organiser, Stack and Fit Stackable Inbox, White Magazine File, White Desktop Organiser, White Small Item holder With Lid Hello, how is your Friday going? It just got a lot better. I’m sure this giveaway will be…
At a wonderfully attended and entertaining launch last Wednesday night, the 2013 Emerging Writers’ Festival program was revealed to all (with immediate ticket sales, which is always nice). It’s been an intense period, getting it ready to go online and behind-the-scenes, but it’s worth it. Last night, as I was tucking Keira into bed, she asked…
‘To Do’ No, it should actually read ‘What I Want to Do When I Have the Chance to Do It, at an Unspecified Time in the Future, which Isn’t – In Fact – Important Enough for Me to Get Started on Right Now’. So, I should really say ‘Wish List’? Well, that doesn’t inspire a…
It’s approaching that time in Australia – Mother’s Day. I know, the hell, right? It’s almost May. In order to help assist present buying, might I suggest the below? I’ve got Crying in the Car available with no postage and free gift wrapping from now until Mother’s Day. Since putting up notice on the sidebar…
The television shows I’ve generally connected with best, those which inspired immediate interest and engagement, have been those I’ve been able to sit down and watch in great gluts of time: usually long after they’re first aired, then syndicated and run in perpetuity. This is how we discovered Buffy, back when we had Foxtel; ‘raging’…
We escaped last week, before Easter. Just for a night, down to the Bellarine Peninsula. Played for half a day at the Adventure Park, before the storms came over, and we abandoned the cold water for even colder winds, running for the car. I insisted on escaping, because I needed to, and the cat can…
