Don’t forget to pencil the 31st of July in your diaries for the New Voices Literary Festival. It will be great! This coming Sunday is the Run Melbourne Half Marathon. I’ve spent a few days in serious deliberation about whether to line up and run or not. Although I am better this week, I am still congested…
My sister gave Ish to Keira for Christmas and I confess it sat on the shelf for a while before we had a chance to get to it – and when we did I was sorry we hadn’t sooner. Ish is a simple story about celebrating creativity, about letting go of perceptions of ‘perfection’ and…
Do you have a video camera? Then the below project might be for you. When you see a project like this one being mentioned on the news you know it’s getting traction. The YouTube channel has more information, including guidelines. I admit I have had some ideas – whether or not they eventuate is another matter.
Image source: Heather Katsoulis Melbourne is cold and windy; the wind is probing its way through the floor vents and the cracks in the windows as I type. Mum is still here and her help has been invaluable this week – saving my proverbial bacon etc. Did I get my work done? Of course…
This past weekend I watched the documentary ‘The Fog of War’ about former U.S Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara. In the part where he describes how close they came to nuclear engagement during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis it put me in mind of On the Beach, which I’ve recently finished. “It’s – it’s the…
My mother arrived this morning for a visit during these school holidays. Hooray! I was – and hopefully still will – going to use the time to knock over some work I’ve been needing to get done, however there’s only one place for me today. Bed.
I lay diagonally across the bed, sweeping the mattress with my feet, searching for differing pockets of temperature – sometimes hot, sometimes cold. The curtains are open, revealing a crisp, lung-shrinkingly cold winter’s day. When I nap during the day – on the odd occasion I allow myself the luxury – I usually keep the curtains open….
**video language warning** No surprises here: I expected to see Kevin “Otto” Kline, Monty Python, John Malkovich, Al Pacino, Les Grossman (i.e Tom Cruise), and they all appeared. What’s perhaps most interesting is among all the expletives, one of my favourites is still Buzz Lightyear’s, “You’re a sad, strange little man. You have my…
To anyone new to ‘Miscellaneous Mum’ via today’s Sunday Life article about “Mummy Blogging” – welcome! I write about my family life here, books, and whatever else takes my fancy (which is a lot). I enjoy taking photos with my iPhone. I am also an author and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. The Press’s latest book,…
