I get scared when I watch Enough Rope and see Tim Flannery*on there, close to tears, looking scared shitless because our Government and most Governments of the world aren’t doing enough to combat climate change. What’s possibly worse is that he doesn’t use extensive flowery language, but you can tell in every gesture and in […]

The other night Adam and I played a little game in bed (while we’re reading, dirty people). It was called, “Out of the books we’re reading, which author makes/made more from their writing than the other?”
As Adam suggested the game, I immediately launched into a defensive diatribe that it’s not about the money but the […]

No idea how I’ll go with these. Lately I haven’t had the brain capacity to read anything more challenging than a Little Princess book to Keira. And even then I don’t really approve  - that kid can be a brat (the princess, not Keira.)
(Well, it depends on the day!)

As I write this, my son is throwing an almighty tantrum on the floor. This is after a brief intermission of sleep. Before that, he was in the exact same position, limbs flailing.
 Ah, wow, just then he tried to throw my laptop across the room. Right, that’s it, I’d best be off. It’s one thing to […]