I’ve always been open and transparent about my dealings with brands here on the blog. You’ll find a pretty frank Disclosure policy over on my About page (if you haven’t seen it already) that outlines certain things – like how I handle third-party sponsored content, for example. I enjoy dealing with PR firms, by and…
In a scene in The Matrix, Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith has Keanu Reeves’ Neo down on the subway tracks; as they’re fighting a train’s approach becomes obvious and Agent Smith says, “That is the sound of inevitability”. Around here, the sound of inevitability is that of a blowing nose and intermittent complaining – mine. I’ve…
Let’s start with jonquils. I bought them on Saturday, after escaping from the house to do the grocery shopping – a chore I loathe, but hey I got to go alone. Forty-five minutes away from sickness (Adam is crook now), trying to ignore the sore, heavy feeling in my arms, that insatiable hunger that comes…
This is going to be a quick update today – it occurred to me that I’ve not said I’m a guest of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival in a couple of weeks. On Saturday 24th August I’ll be over in Ballarat at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E), which has just opened and by all…
I officially finished up at the Emerging Writers’ Festival yesterday. I wrote about how I feel about that over on their blog, so if you’d like to pop over, by all means. I’ll wait here until you get back. Anyway, so in the weeks leading up to my departure I kept getting asked if I…
The Joker’s obsession (at least in the 1989 Batman film) with creating/curating, such as you see in the scene above, resonates with me at a time when I have not had the time to do anything similar, such is the nature of blogging in certain respects. He is interested in a specific kind of aesthetic…
I took this photo just moments before the audience were asked to return to their seats ahead of a panel I was speaking on this past Saturday called ‘How to find and refine your voice’. The panel convenor was Wendy Tuohy and my co-panellists were Kate Forster and Lou Pardi; they are all fabulous, talented…
Towards the end of April we got a bowl of olives from the massive – and gorgeous – tree that borders our property and our neighbour’s. Those of you who follow me on Instagram will have already seen how they were prepared. This was the week when they were supposed to ready to eat. As the…
I’m quite embarrassed to admit this, but I still haven’t made a Will. I’ve mentioned this point a few times over the years and you’d think this might’ve been enough to spur me into action. Alas, no. It appears I’m not alone in this situation: statistics show that 55 per cent of Australian parents with…
