Thanks for the best wishes, folks. Amanda and I are back from our first anniversary extravaganza, and the results of the tests are in ( Read more... )

Today is a very good day. It's our first wedding anniversary, and we're heading for the hills tonight, as we did exactly 52 weeks ago, to enjoy some quiet time. We'll also party like it's 1932 by taking this most timely quiz:


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After my surprise second-place in the now-legendary Daikaiju limerick contest, I barely dreamed the day could get any better.

Then Amanda handed me this welcome home present, and my life was complete!


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The wonderful Amanda has a new book out.

In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier hit the shelves last week.

What's it about? The misadventures of my evil great-great-uncle, for one ( Read more... )

Holidays are impossible to sum up, but I'd like to give it a whirl because we had a particularly good trip and the attempt will help me remember it ( Read more... )

Well, the wedding went off without a hitch, so I don't have to worry about jinxing it now. :-)


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The 2006 Aurealis Awards have been announced and the news is good for some, not so good for others, but excellent for everyone involved. Hurrah ( Read more... )

It's been a good one. One of the best, I reckon, and not just because of the amazing Amanda (who is now an Associate Professor, belying her uni homepage). Some pretty powerful stars must have been in alignment because it's hard to find a low-point.

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The wonderful Amanda Nettelbeck and colleague Rob Foster are just about to release their latest book, Writing William Willshire: Race, Nationalism and Frontier Violence in Late Colonial Australia, due out any day now from Wakefield Press. It's an account of one of Australia's most notorious colonial figures, one of only two white policemen ( Read more... )