In a week’s time I will be heading off to the Gold Coast to attend (and speak at) the Problogger Training Event. Or #PBevent as it’s otherwise known, and hashtagged. As someone who has attended all of these Problogger events so far – this being the fourth year – and as someone who’s attended other…
It was recently National Book Week. Unlike many schools in our area and over Australia, the school the kids’ attend did not have any kind of dress-ups, or parades, or any sort of concerted effort to acknowledge the event – at least, not that was communicated to the parents. I’m not going to turn…
It’s now officially spring! Hooray! Another thing that’s special about September is that it’s almost October – and this October is the fifth anniversary of the release of Surprise! Can you believe it? Five years. Incredible. Over that time, I’ve seen it on bookshelves around the country (and overseas) – in libraries, and in the home. I’ve…
I’ll begin with Night Games by Anna Krien for several reasons. First because I think it is an important book on an important subject. Second is everyone I know who has read it loves it. Third is because I have a crush on Anna; I think she’s terrific. Taken from The Monthly: Krien’s new book,…
As I was driving home from Ballarat late Saturday afternoon, with the sun low in the sky behind me, I crested one of the hills on the highway and beheld a panorama of Melbourne and its surrounds. There in the distance was the city, its skyscrapers reflected white, outlined much like a child’s painting. Closer…
In an effort to read the posts I mark ‘Saved for Later’ in Feedly, in what I hope will turn into a regular feature I’ll be pulling out the best, most interesting, weird, disturbing, compelling, important or all of the above to share with you. Was Rita Hayworth’s picture really stuck to the side of…
1. What you get is proportionate to what you give. Yes, I’m talking in a selfless way here. Many successful bloggers will tell you that their mantra is always to ‘give, give, give’ – or, in other words, be as informative and helpful as possible, packing each post with jaw-dropping content. And I’m the first…
This sight can regularly be found in our kitchen: multiple loaves of bread opened and at various degrees of being eaten. The bread I try to eat – you know the kind, that has the look and consistency of mud crust on the bottom of your shoe, but damn it all it’s HEALTHY – is…
It was this blog’s 7th birthday yesterday. Below is the picture from my first post and another I took on Saturday to put side by side and illustrate just how much has changed over this time. (Saturday’s photo took some pleading to get as Keira is a sick little chook at the moment.) But isn’t…
