Before Adam and I moved to Melbourne from Sydney, we were looking at buying on the central coast. After moving, it took us a while to really get our bearings in this new city. While other friends and peers were using their early twenties to travel overseas, we were the first couple to buy a…
Today is a day of spooks and thrills, donning the garb and physicality of many creatures one would not ordinarily want to meet. It is a thinning of the veil between worlds, a mark of respect to the dead and celebration of the fact we are not yet among their number. To the kids, it’s…
{I know I’m on a blog break at the moment but I think this is cool so thought I’d post about it. Also, I wrote 1700 words today, so I’m happy about that and considering this a reward.} I saw this being advertised on the television on the weekend. Air New Zealand have partnered with…
Okay, so here’s the situation. (Not that it’s really a ‘situation’, a term loaded with spy-like urgency, implying something is more dire than what first appear.) Following on from my post on Wednesday, I’m going to step away from the blog for a tiny while. Let’s call it a spring break. One week, possibly two,…
On a return flight to Melbourne from Sydney yesterday I was seated next to a woman who, as it became abundantly clear once the plane began to accelerate up the runway, had a very big problem flying. She was next to the window and as the plane took off over that beautiful city, bathed in…
In reverse order: 6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone It goes to show the bounty and generosity of Rowling’s imagination (not to mention skill) that she can make room in her epic fantastical world for the Hogwarts annual Hallowe’en Feast, such as she does in this book (and a couple of the others). If…
Look, I’m just going to admit straight away, hands up, I surrender, that I have compulsive tendencies. Thanks, anxiety. You’re swell. I might tell myself the iron is turned off 99 times, but I won’t believe it until that 100th go. And only then that’s because I went and checked the damn thing. So how…
It was the NSW launch of Crying in the Car last night. I’ve put my speech below for those of you who are interested. I need to thank the incredible hospitality and warmth of Maclean’s Booksellers who were just marvellous. Also, my family and friends for coming, and for spending up huge at the cash…
As I’ve previously written, we’ve just bought new couches. This purchase was over a decade in the works and so it might be understandable that I’ve been pondering a certain feeling that we might now be ‘proper’ adults. This feeling lasts for about three minutes, until I spy our beanbags in the corner, their…
