SubscribeI’m just back from a five day trip to Melbourne with PB.
It was largely a good trip – more play than work. It was nice to spend time with PB and have time not to rush. We both love Melbourne, the culture, the conversational opportunities, the coffee and the shopping.
The excuse was the birthday [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
type cast
The end of this piece sounds like a promotional piece. It’s not. No sponsorship is in place.
When I was in primary school I had a simple text-book on touch typing or at least typing efficiently with one hand. It wasn’t really a text-book in the traditional sense; rather a case of 100 typed pages, [...]
An open letter — rant, long — updated
Updated today with the letter that I actually sent this am
An open letter to the
Minister for Transport
the Honourable Mr David Campbell MP
GPO Box 5341
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Dear Sir,
I’m told I tell a great story whether fiction or fact. My education and experiences over many years has reinforced that telling stories is a good way to understand [...]
A box in the mail
Yesterday was fun.
I had a visit from a university friend and her daughters (3 and 9 months). They are gorgeous. It’s strange and pleasing to be able to talk of knowing folks for over 10 (or 20) years. I feel all old but in a good way. AS and her hubby fall into the over [...]
6WS.2
My six words
beautiful day filled with wonderful surprises
The weekend that was
Written after last Valentine’s Day
I’m a girl. Bottom line. For all my protestations about being modern and not “into the Hallmark Days”, yesterday was Valentine’s day.
But this year felt different. PB is a creative and enjoys surprising me and so on the day of St Valentine’s I awoke to recieve this
Well two of them actually [...]
Sleeping centre
Interesting watching the slow waking up on my local “big shops” open.
It’s very deliberate and good for one’s sense of observation. People almost whisper out of reverence for the sleeping giant. Noise makers cast furtive and apologetic glances around, almost willing their necessary noises to be quiet. Seeking to not disturb the meditative [...]
6WS
I was looking through my NetNewsWire collection of blogs and came accross this concept on C Beth’s blog. Six word Saturday. Described more fully here, its basically to describe your life in that moment or a thing in your life in a phrase containing 6 words. During this disciplined blogging exercise I thought I’d try [...]
and then
PB and I were watching You’ve Got Mail tonight, the result of a time limited offer on PB’s behalf (and probably Valentine inspired as well).
Two brief thoughts occur to me.
Firstly I love courtship as one of the old-fashioned polite ways that these two modern charactors exist. I can really relate to that. In fact, [...]
Blogging with Discipline
I like this idea.
I can relate to what Beth talks about. I have tended to be one of these writers;
There are times when my mind is filled with more blog posts than there are days in the week, when everything in my life can be easily put into a witty and/or meaningful bit of writing.
I [...]
oh Mamma Mia!
I’ve been thinking about the National Companion Card program since going to the theatre with a friend where the topic came up more than once, first in the booking process and after the show by a well-meaning mother and daughter duo.
Following up from this, I thought now was a good time to discuss it.
Even to [...]
interesting insight
After reading a couple of writing related books this week including Writing from Start to Finish by Aussie author Kate Granville which advocated structure, I found this an interesting contrast. This is from Khalid Hosseini who has written two books; The Kite Runner (which I haven’t read), and A Thousand Splendid Suns, which was one [...]
