Don’t forget to pencil the 31st of July in your diaries for the New Voices Literary Festival. It will be great! This coming Sunday is the Run Melbourne Half Marathon. I’ve spent a few days in serious deliberation about whether to line up and run or not. Although I am better this week, I am still congested…
Do you have a video camera? Then the below project might be for you. When you see a project like this one being mentioned on the news you know it’s getting traction. The YouTube channel has more information, including guidelines. I admit I have had some ideas – whether or not they eventuate is another matter.
Image source: Heather Katsoulis Melbourne is cold and windy; the wind is probing its way through the floor vents and the cracks in the windows as I type. Mum is still here and her help has been invaluable this week – saving my proverbial bacon etc. Did I get my work done? Of course…
My mother arrived this morning for a visit during these school holidays. Hooray! I was – and hopefully still will – going to use the time to knock over some work I’ve been needing to get done, however there’s only one place for me today. Bed.
I lay diagonally across the bed, sweeping the mattress with my feet, searching for differing pockets of temperature – sometimes hot, sometimes cold. The curtains are open, revealing a crisp, lung-shrinkingly cold winter’s day. When I nap during the day – on the odd occasion I allow myself the luxury – I usually keep the curtains open….
**video language warning** No surprises here: I expected to see Kevin “Otto” Kline, Monty Python, John Malkovich, Al Pacino, Les Grossman (i.e Tom Cruise), and they all appeared. What’s perhaps most interesting is among all the expletives, one of my favourites is still Buzz Lightyear’s, “You’re a sad, strange little man. You have my…
Updated: Competition has now closed! Winners will be announced later today. Thanks to BitDefender, I have one Dell Mini 10 netbook (RRP $449) to give away for parents or carer-givers who can tell us the best way to protect children on the internet. Loaded with the latest BitDefender Total Security 2010 security suite, the lucky…
If an award existed for ‘Toughest Mother-Effing Dandelion on Earth’ then this one would win hands down. It took Riley at least half a dozen blows to even start dislodging the seeds to the wind.
George: Well Kevin and Julia, as you know we’re at the pointy end of the competition. Today is make or break time. As you know, whoever first answers an ingredient incorrectly will be eliminated. The winner will go on to be Australia’s Next Prime Minister. Already you’ve identified most of the ingredients of today’s dish…
