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…
Adam bought me a lemon tree for Valentine’s Day almost three (I think) years ago and look – it’s doing something! Because I rarely – on purpose – grow anything in the garden to this extent, let alone fruit trees which are, I hear, trickier let’s just say I’m a) excited and b) really, really…
As a great many people have been queuing up to buy the latest release iPhone 5s or 5c, or updating to iOS 7, I thought it would be a good time to share some of my favourite apps that I use for blogging. I’ve not upgraded to iOS 7 yet, but Adam has, and the…
Read / September 23rd, 2013
I’m really not sure how best to write this post, so I’m going to plunge straight in and hope that what I type follows some kind of track. My reading slump continues, which isn’t great timing considering I’m trying to model positive reading behaviour, but there you have it. However, I suppose, from another angle…
In an effort to properly finish the posts I mark ‘Saved for Later’ in Feedly, I regularly feature the best, most interesting, weird, disturbing, compelling, important or all of the above to share with you. Please don’t try to turn the Star Trek movies into Deep Space 9 appeared over at io9. Lauren Davis begins:…
The above picture was taken on the day I was re-writing my picture book. I was working off the existing manuscript on my laptop screen and then writing (by hand) on paper the elements I wanted to keep, thus leaving a very different book than it was before. I can only do this with…
This shot was taken during the opening keynote at the Problogger Training Event. During his talk, Darren asked the audience to think about what their biggest challenge or obstacle in blogging currently was. A word popped into my head by complete surprise, and you can imagine my even greater surprise when it flashed up onto…
School holidays are fast approaching. If you’re like me, this means that you will be inundated with questions such as “What can I do?” and “I’m bored”. However, thanks to this giveaway nanoblock, that situation will be resolved. nanoblock has been in Australia for almost three years. If you’ve stepped in a gift or games…
