Back in June* I took the kids to see the Titanic Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. I was hoping the place would be nice and quiet because it was a school day (except for Keira’s, who were having a pupil-free day). I was wrong. Luckily, we’d booked ahead to go in the earliest (10am) session,…
First published in France in 2008, and then translated into English in 2009, Daddy Lost His Head is a delightfully cheeky book as one might expect from the hands of Quentin Blake and Andre Bouchard (Bouchard is a French cartoonist). I’ve seen one negative online review (and that centered on a perceived sexism in the…
Fact: I feel less impervious to a winter sky when I’m sitting in a car that works – as opposed to one that’s broken down.
An Australian Blogging Conference (ABC?) Really? Yes! It’s looking like it’s really going to happen. Brenda, Veronica, Nicole, and Tina and I are in development stages for organising the above event. Its focus will primarily be for parenting/personal bloggers, but all bloggers – male and female – are welcome. But first we want to gauge what people…
Here is an abridged version of my brief talk about Miscellaneous Voices from the New Voices Festival: This might seem like a simplistic statement to make, but I feel that blogging is fundamentally a celebration of voice. Bloggers are of all types and aspirations and their space is the place where they can find (or rediscover)…
1. Studying Yes, really. I have always been a fan of learning, making progress, discovering something about the world I mightn’t otherwise have discovered. It fires up my brain: just like other muscles, when used, it becomes more efficient and responsive. I took advantage of this and started writing notes for my next picture book….
I protest vehemently whenever the cat comes to sleep at my feet while I read in bed at night, but in truth … I really don’t mind. ****** If you recall what I said the other day about August being a bad month – well, it’s also turning out to be a nexus for things…
Catherine Connors has written for a long time about her nephew Tanner, who has Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy. In a wonderful movement that can only prove what open-heartedness the internet community is capable of, as we saw recently with the support for Ivy, this coming Friday morning New York time (Friday evening here in Australia) many, many people…
… then to be dressed like another*. He’ll be dyeing his hair white-blonde next. I wonder who else does that around here? (Erm. Never mind… {I exit stage right…}) *By my husband. A big kid himself. The jacket is mine, though.
