Friends, If you’re reading this direct on/from the blog, take one last long look around. If you’re reading via RSS or email, click on through to get that final glimpse. Because all going well, this will be my last update before we push the button on the all-new, snazzy website. My current and traditional (cough…
Life / September 12th, 2019
Writing can feel like a game of totem tennis. Do people still play? I think so. You know what I’m talking about, right? When you stick a pole in the ground and a rope is attached to the top with a tennis ball on the end and you bash that around and around. I’m not…
There are parts of the early days of parenting that can’t be easily forgotten. Take my second born, for example. Riley was an infamously picky eater, and I mentioned this here on the blog on occasion. Cheese, plain pasta, tomato sauce, yoghurt and potatoes (fries) were his five staples. And even then not always. January…
Here we are, halfway through winter. I thought I’d give an update on an experiment – or challenge – I’ve somewhat quietly (until now) kept to myself. Except for newsletter subscribers, they know. (You could get advance news too, if you sign up. No pressure.) As I waited on feedback from manuscripts and competition pieces,…
The latest installment of things I love and want to share! Public Libraries I know, I realise this is slightly cheaty because I’m never quiet about my love of public libraries. But this inclusion is extra special in that my local library just recently announced that it is now completely fine free – meaning that…
I’ve been reading Jason Kottke’s blog for over a decade now and enjoy his occasional series ‘media diet‘. I thought I might take inspiration from this because so far 2019 has been full to the brim with examples of quality television, multi-box office-busting movies and more. (I won’t go into books because I already talk…
Beef stew in Ho Chi Minh City Normally I write a travel post full of written content and the quick video I pop together is there to supplement the material, not making much of a difference if you watch it or not (though of course, I’d never say no to the views!). Today’s case is…
This post is sponsored by amaysim Riley had been asking for a mobile phone for at least the latter half of last year. We heard all the typical pleas for getting one, including the evergreen ‘Everyone else has one except me’, which I also used to throw around as a teenager. But Adam and…
Life / February 18th, 2019
My father passed away on the 19th of February 2009 while I was somewhere up in the sky on a plane, trying to rush home and see him before it was too late. But I was too late. My original plan was to write a new poem to commemorate the occasion. I’m still working on…
