…is the fact I’m sitting here, after last night. Nothing dire, just throw in some blinding pain (mine) and a troublesome child (Keira). Ah – I see Riley’s just pulled out his willy from inside his nappy to wee all over the kitchen floor. Nice. Maybe I spoke too hastily yesterday? I will be back…
Yesterday, at Riley’s two year check up with the Maternal Health Nurse, she asked me if he had shown any signs of interest in toilet training yet? I tell ya, I’m still laughing over that one.
I am very happy to announce that I will be speaking at the 2008 Emerging Writers Festival in early May. The program isn’t finalised yet, but I will post a link as soon as it is available (April 10th). At the moment I am pencilled in to be first session on Sunday 11th. It will…
If you have a spare five minutes or so, come on over and read my published short story over at Parenting Express.
Update: Go on over to Kim’s for the next Surprise! feature! ****** To the boy who can sit at a table for an hour and push a grain of rice around the edge of a bowl, pushing, pushing, with no objective in mind, only to watch. To the boy whose dimple when you smile melts…
As I’ve been saying over this past week, we’re having a big clean-up. The other day I came across our old VHS collection hidden at the back of the cupboard. So the question is: do we chuck these out or keep them? I personally don’t like buying DVD replacements when there’s a perfectly functional video lying…
Stupid I’d say it is surprising a girl like me can clean a chook unbog a truck fight a fire lay out the dead make the bread deliver babies write a poem move a man to tears rear the kids and keep on acting stupid Kate Llewellyn The first book launch I ever…
I did the math the other night and worked out that with the exception of my childhood home, we’ve lived in this house for longer than any other I’ve ever lived in. You’d think that six-plus years would tie you to a place more than it has, and two/four/six months ago I would’ve agreed with…
I have, at last count, at least ten such notebooks like you see above. They all date from various years of my life. The smaller one at the top is (one) of the notebooks I wrote my second fantasy novel in in longhand. Yes, the coffee cup stain tells you about my working habits. The one…
