Red tulips White tulips Yellow tulip Clay cat made at Bendigo Pottery Bendigo Cathedral Cathedral windows Watching a movie in the hotel room Cafe sights Hanging Rock, from the Calder Freeway. Thinking wistfully of our trip there last year. More words to come later.
Setting: A large home-renovators and supplies store. The kids are running around, sitting on all the toilets (thank god they’re past the ‘does this work? shall I use it?’ phase) and asking what a bidet actually does. “I think we need floorboards.” “Bamboo?” “I guess.” “They’re hardest. Except for this wood you can only get…
Yes, PictureShow. You may already have heard of it, or own it, which I suppose makes me a little late to the party. No matter! I like PictureShow because it blends a lot of features that Hipstamatic and ToyCamera both have (plus more) into a more centralised interface. Here is a pretty ordinary, boring, and dark shot of the…
(And I am open to suggestions of a better acronym!)
Chester’s Back by Melanie Watt Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies and James Croft Willy the Champ by Anthony Browne Where Does Thursday Go? by Janeen Brian and Stephen Michael King I Do It by Andrew Daddo and Jonathan Bentley The Prince of Peas by Sylvie Cahusse and Anne Letuffe Doctor Miaows Big Emergency by Sam Lloyd…
The Aussie Bloggers Conference (ABC) website is now live and tickets are available! Early bird prices end soon, so be quick! That’s right, Brenda, Veronica, Nicole, and Tina and I have been busy putting together the ABC. It’s been so exciting and inspiring to see it come together. I can’t wait to meet so many people…
Yes, the time has come when we have double rows (confession: dear internet, my fingers want to type ‘double rainbow’) happening on our bookshelves again. Many of us Gen-X or Gen-Y folk will recognise those ‘Choose Your Own Adventures’ Adam snapped up during the second-hand book sales in the Atrium on the second Saturday of the…
I’m stepping away from the blog for personal reasons. Not sure when I’ll be back. Soon. Ish. Would you please water my pot-plants for me? Thanks. Photo: mao_lini *