It has been a very strange start to the year so far. Not least due to a certain serpent’s sad addiction to stalking on Twitter but because a whole bunch of goal posts have been moved in such a very short time ( Read more... )

Izzie never ever imagined that it would be necessary to turn on the heater during October. This is Oz after all and we are supposed to be sizzling and certainly not snuggling up, toasting our toes and listening to the howling wind and the rain lashing the window panes ( Read more... )

Izzie didn't get invited to the birthday party of the century so instead it was an opportunity to catch up on some tasty Radio National morsels

Brainsssss!It turns out that the writer of the very freaky tale "The Girl with all the Gifts" had already been out there gathering lots of creepy cordyceps fungi and producing all sorts of amazing ( Read more... )

It is said that the depressed are obsessed with the past while the more anxious sorts fear the future. So maybe it is a good sign that a certain serpent has been so busy with mundane matters of the present that she has not even observed a whole bunch of significant anniversaries.
( An ancient serpent reminisces )

Good Friday is always an interesting day to go slinking about in the city as the place is pretty much a ghost town. There’s the usual hordes of tourists looking like stunned mullets when they discover that the only places open are the churches and McDonalds ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a most magical and pretty productive day. The weather forecast predicted a rather cold morning which would mean a crisp and crunchy day with sunshine. This seemed most unlikely indeed after yesterday’s drizzly misery. But it turned out to be true ( Read more... )

Strange days in Serpent Land. It has been a long long day. First the six hour stint at the mad house starting at 7am and resisting the temptation to spend this rainiest of days curled up in the serpent sack, slinked off to downtown Dursleyville followed by the favorite haunt of Freo ( Read more... )

Izzie is pottering around procrastinating and doing bugger all really. Yesterday's grand plans for some serious gardening turned into a snooze fest and today was not much different. Did manage to plant the five or six baby banksias bought about a week ago ( Read more... )

Today the serpent awoke to the grating whining "I'm the toughest princess ever" tones of our very own Queen of Swords - Julia Gillard ( Read more... )

Not been squiggling much lately online. Too busy either snoozing, coffee drinking or pottering around looking at fireworks ( Read more... )