Starting Saturday and finishing yesterday, Adam and some work colleagues took it in shifts, on their bikes, to ride this red line: That’s from Swan Hill up at the border down to Port Fairy on the coast, all 520kms of it, in aid of the Murray to Moyne fundraiser. 9.30pm last night I’m sure there…
Contributor copies of Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing #1 are now making their way across the country and globe, as are the first of the pre-orders. Some blog posts have been written about those who’ve received them: such as Lead Igloo, Maekitso’s Cafe (you can win his copy if you enter his competition by writing a Ghazal),…
Congratulations to Tiffany and Seraphim who were the numbers #36 & #25 respectively the random number generator just gave back to me – I’ll be in touch with you soon regarding your prizes. My thanks to you all who helped. I’m about to send off the raised amount now. I want to also give a shout…
There is a scene in The Fifth Element when Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) sits down at a computer to learn everything about the human race. The moments, the disasters, flick past her and by the time she’s learned everything there is a look in her eyes of terrified incomprehension, and she falls into Bruce Willis’ arms, spent. Keira came…
After my 10km run in November, I’ve been wondering what my next sporting goal should be. Adam’s got his, the Murray-to-Moyne 24hr bike ride in March. It’s early days yet, but I’ve been thinking of giving this a go: Run Melbourne Website Why? Well for the challenge, obviously, and the exercise. Plus to see if I can…
I went to donate blood two years ago and was told not to. This week I went again and I thought this time would be different. Although my balance has been off lately from the stress of the book and book-related matters, I haven’t had a full Menieres attack since 2007. Tuesday was a lovely…
Hold onto your wallets, it’s getting close to that time of year. Christmas. Before I go into why I’m starting to panic about Christmas (and that can wait for another day), first it’s time to open again my Christmas Card Challenge, following on last year’s successful one. For those of you who don’t know what…
The Spohr family lost their little girl this week. Today is Good Friday. I don’t know what category I fall into anymore, whether I’m religious or non-religious, but from my childhood I still remember that although Easter is about sacrifice and doing what’s best for the greater good and humanity, it is also the day when a…
Jasmin has this project running that began last week, and boy was I excited when I learned a bit more about it. She, along with Incentive House, came up with an idea: that bloggers could earn up to $1000 for the Opportunity International Microfinance Fundraiser. By writing a post on the subject we bloggers could earn a $100 for the…
