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The one where I wave a bottle of squeezy honey at my husband in a slightly unhinged fashion

July 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 am » Comments (10)

This seemingly innocuous bottle of honey caused quite the stir in our marriage last week.
You see, I despise these cleaning-disasters-in-wait; my husband on the other hand thinks that because it is a supposed ‘innovation’ in the way we spread this condiment over our bread that it must - nay, it is - even better than […]


Barricades and Brickwalls

July 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 am » Comments (5)

[*no, I’m not talking about Kasey Chambers. Catchy title, though, so I’m going to borrow it.]
Yesterday:
The Good: An expression of interest was made in pre-ordering my book; this will end up being a number somewhere over 50 copies, which is wonderful.
The Bad: I received a letter in the mail from a book distributor who I […]


The Melbourne Writers’ Festival program is out - yes, I’m still pinching myself

July 18th, 2008 at 5:18 am » Comments (13)

Update: The entire program can be found in today’s The Age newspaper. My session is in there, but my author profile didn’t make it (although I think they did warn me that might happen). Now I just have to try and decide what other sessions I’d like to go to. Anyone else going? Who are you […]


Observations on World Youth Day from a youth

July 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm » Comments (2)

Sydney is whipped up in a vibrant, Catholic* frenzy this week on account of the Pope being in town and World Youth Day.
A news report was just on giving an update on the fesitivities. The footage showed lots of kids running around, waving flags and banners and such.
“Look mummy, it’s a great big circus!” exclaimed my […]