Because my hair is falling out I have been thinking about just chopping it all off. Pixie cut style. (or, possibly, ‘MUM STYLE’)

I’ve never had short hair before though. I don’t know if… I would like it. If I could maintain it. If it would end up sticking up all angles like weird cat bum fluff.

My celeb hair doppelganger (sadly, just the hair) - is ( Read more... )

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It’s MID MAY already! Argh! So here are my likes & dislikes for the month:


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First three books for 2012! >


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The sound of wind at night is one I find comforting. (As long as the windows have cardboard wedged in between window & frame to stop them rattling.) Although I hate wind during the day - it enrages me in this general I-hate-the-world kind of way. It spoils daytimes but enriches nightimes.

I wonder if the comfort comes from being born in Wellington ( Read more... )

I keep reading about how dystopian stories are big in YA at the moment - a trend (re)kick-started by The Hunger Games, as these sort of stories aren’t exactly new to this segment. The latest is this article from The Australian:

End of the world as we know it - “You may have missed it, in the face of the apparently inexhaustible appetite for ( Read more... )

 

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Over the last few months, I’ve learned a few things about having a Good Swim. The kind when you walk home afterward with legs like jelly, flushed with endorphins, feeling great because you’ve just had an epic session in the pool. Here’s what I do to get that swimmer’s high:

• Eat 1 hour beforehand. Something substantial enough to sustain but not ( Read more... )

I’m back from holiday with a stack of updates to make. Hope you all had a great festive season like I did! First up I will finish with my 2010 reading list updates.

30th book in 2010 was:


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I’m up to page 66 in this editing business. There are a total of 180 pages right now. Although it’s nice to THINK I’m a third of the way through, I don’t think I actually am since there are so many holes to fill later on.

I’m doing a very half-assed pass through. Sometimes I lie in bed at night and realise things that I should’ve picked up and ( Read more... )

The A-Team (or, “That movie that starts with A that has those people in it” as I kept calling it) - Ridiculous. But you figured that would be the case going in. You knew that was the case when they flew a helicopter upside down. Don’t expect anything and you won’t be disappointed.


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