In Case You Were Wondering About Who Will Win The Block…

… my daughter is quite happy to share her thoughts on the subject! Awww… 🙂

Celebrating 5 years blogging: a $100 voucher to the Sydney Writers Centre (giveaway)

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…

10 Life Changing Books Of The Past 10 Years

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…