Happy new year
Well, it’s officially 2012 in New Zealand, so happy new year, everyone! To all of you who have read and enjoyed my books, and especially those who have taken the time to send me kind words about them,...
View ArticleYou know you’re Australian if…and other things
I’m not sure how it gets to be 3 weeks without a post, but there you go. I don’t know where the time goes. Apropos of nothing, I bought a new bed. They delivered it today, and I was very much looking...
View ArticleOlympics
Well, London, that was a delightful opening ceremony. LOVED the music montage and the Cauldron, they were absolutely great. The cauldron was really stunning. As someone who’s lived through a home-town...
View ArticleIf only I wouldn’t pay more for postage than I would for the chocolate
This time next week, I will be getting ready to go back to Australia for my birthday. I didn’t go back last year at all, mainly because the universe tried to kill me, and it turns out that spending a...
View ArticleMusic soothes the savage beast
So, it’s been a while, internets. Even longer than what’s normal for me. That’s mainly because life is kicking me in the metaphorical nuts right now, and has been since September. First it knocked me...
View ArticleHappy new year
I think by this point most countries have seen in the new year, so I’d just like to say that I wish everyone health and happiness for 2014. There’s something hopeful about the first few days of...
View ArticleLinks, AKA: the world is a strange and wonderful place
Morning, tiddlywinks. I’m on holidays now, I don’t go back to work for 10 days. I am delighted by this prospect. I have been up since 6.30 am, which is not really what people like to do on the first...
View ArticleSometimes you have to see it with your own eyes
Some could argue that in the age of the internet, with Google Earth, Google street view, Flickr, etc, that you don’t have to visit a place to write about it. I know of authors who have written novels...
View ArticleWhere is the time going?
How it got to be almost April already, I have no idea. I tell myself I’m going to blog regularly, and then life happens, and I just don’t. 2015 is turning out to be a bit of a rollercoaster ride. I...
View ArticleI request a do over…
…of the last 2 months. First, I worked myself into exhaustion and had to take 2 weeks off to recover, and then last week, a good friend and coworker died of breast cancer, after a really sudden...
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