Read / October 19th, 2020
I’m sitting down to write this on the morning our lockdown restrictions in Melbourne have considerably eased, such as an increased movement radius and many others. I was jubilant during the press conference yesterday; I punched the air when it was announced that hairdressers would reopen. But I’ve woken up tired this morning, as most of…
Read / September 21st, 2020
Hello, friends. Is combining two reading months into one post cheating? Perhaps it is. And there’s nothing I’d like more than time to write a few long, rambly posts about life and what’s been happening – I mean, really, has anyone computed it yet!? – but it feels late. I’m late. Our COVID numbers in Victoria…
The monthly reading recaps get further and further delayed as the year progresses. I apologise. I blink and days pass. Melbourne has entered stage four lockdown, from which – hopefully – we’ll emerge next month. And then we’ll have passed into another season. That feels weird to type. I still have coupons on my fridge…
I blink and we’re already well into another month – and I’m late, again. First, a tiny bit of writing news. Recently, I was a shortlistee in the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing (NPCW) in both the local nonfiction and local fiction categories. The winners can be viewed here, as can a pdf of the…
Here we are another (late) monthly update and 2020 continues in its… 2020 fashion. I’m finding it hard to come up with adjectives anymore. I’ve finished my first intense session at university and I escaped into books this month, too. As you’ll discover. I’ll start with science fiction classic Dune by Frank Herbert, one of my…
I was going to write this post yesterday, but I’d reached a point in an essay draft where I could see the end was closer than I realised and not some far off wish. With some crafty paragraph rearranging and a few stitch-together sentences, maybe I could get it finished. (And I did. Yay!) Also,…
I tipped the last of my day moisturiser onto the palm of my hand yesterday morning. Smearing this SPF 15 cream into my face has been routine for almost two decades, part of whatever you could say constitutes a brief ‘beauty regime’. I thought to myself, oh no, as my skin was still quite dry. Then I…
Read / February 28th, 2020
I blink and another month is over. I was planning on writing a separate, longer post to explain this absence, but also there’s no time like now. It’s also related to my reading (I feel like everything about me feeds back into that point!). While I’m only featuring three titles on this list, I’ve barely…
Read / January 31st, 2020
Hello and welcome back for 2020! Earlier I waved my children back to school and then I got to thinking about the day and date and realised – oh! I’d better do my reading check-in here on the blog! There is a fair bit to cover – and these titles are just a selection of…