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Autumn is here
Hey Readers (if there’s any of you left),
Where have the last three months gone? Autumn is here, winter is coming, and I haven’t updated my blog until now. So here it is, the first entry for 2015. I’ll try not to be so slack with entries in future.
What I’ve Been Doing1. Spending Christmas and New Years Eve in Perth - snuck in a quick trip to ( Read more... ) -
December already
Over the last month, I have been ( Read more... ) -
November Happenings
So I’ve finished reading “The Artist Is A Thief”. It’s the sort of book that would make a better movie than a book. The plot was pretty good - an accountant from Melbourne arrives in a remote indigenous community to investigate the vandalism of an Aboriginal painting. The scenery is described well. There’s even a love story sub plot. But there were ( Read more... ) -
October Country
Another month gone by. Craig and I went up to Newcastle for the recent long weekend, and I attended a couple of Young Writers Festival events. The first was a panel of young editors, talking about their jobs. The second was about the dangers of being a writer and taking on too much. A panellist at the second event said that someone once advised him ( Read more... ) -
Winter Has Gone
Since posting last, I have been:
Travellingto Melbourne and Perth. Spent a weekend in Melbourne with my brother and we took a day trip to Mount Buller. Busier than Perisher and Thredbo, but we went up near the top and the crowds thinned out. The weather was a balmy eight degrees. Hadn’t snowed for a couple of weeks, but the runs were still decent ( Read more... ) -
These last six weeks
How I’ve spent the last six weeks:
1. Wrangling with car salesmen. As stated in my previous entry, I placed an order for a new car. It’s coming from Sydney, they said. Should take 10 days. Fast forward one month, and the new car finally turns up. Only - it’s got a 2013 build date! First World Problem, yes, but it’s one that trips up a lot of ( Read more... ) -
Weekend musings
A good weekend for:
1. Writing success. My story was shortlisted in this month’s Writing Magazine. The theme was “Comeuppance”. I had a good feeling about this story, and was pleased to have cracked the top ten ( Read more... ) -
Book review - "The White Peacock"
“The White Peacock”, published in 1911, is the first novel of D.H. Lawrence. ‘The usual way of constructing a novel,’ the young Lawrence remarked at the time, ‘is to take two couples and to work out their relationship.’ Lawrence certainly achieves this in his novel, through deft description and piercing characterisation ( Read more... ) -
More than a game? Or more than Victoria?
Autumn is here. Footy is back. This weekend is the second half of the first (split) round of the Australian Football League (AFL). For the next six months, 18 teams will compete in the competition. Ten from Victoria. Two each from Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland. As can be seen from these figures, the AFL ( Read more... ) -
Book review - “Over The Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon”.
Last October in the USA, Craig and I spent a day at the Grand Canyon National Park. We rode the shuttle buses around the South Rim, took a plethora of photographs, saw a chipmunk, an elk and a condor, and hiked part of the South Rim trail. Interesting thing about the Grand Canyon: the only safety rails you’ll see are at the main lookouts. Despite ( Read more... )