I posted at some length on this here http://flindersfreer.blogspot.com/

Should be up in an hour or so :-). Nice talking to the guys.

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On the good (for certain values of good) news - Tasmania stands in with a good chance of winning its first Man-Booker Prize. This http://www.wst.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/74951/owner_builder_kit.pdfRead more... )

I've been trying to make a habit of looking at Australian papers. One the things that attracted us in the first place was the lack of normal SA-type news. Or the headline-searing way the commonplace here (rape, murder, robbery, corruption at anything but multi-million stakes), gets into the news there. And the fact that any country that has Paris ( Read more... )

o'Mike: "I was thinking about non-fiction. What about you writing about moving to Australia ( Read more... )

My Grandmother's Shame ( Read more... )

Buttons is not giving us a lot sleep - like we needed that to add to equation. Anyway, not sure what is wrong with her - she's 17 and theory dead already. Might be something basic like constipation. She was drinking a lot. I so do not need vet bills right now, especially as I suspect it will be nothing much can be done. She doesn't appear in any ( Read more... )

My flu seems to have come back. One of the places I regarded as possible on Flinders is up for auction, but we'll never get there in time, and never have the money in time, even if - because it was at auction, it went cheap :-( And the writing has been crap today, and Save the Dragons http ( Read more... )

One of my net-friends asked recently what my playlist was. Now I am not very musically talented. And I have to have quiet to focus when I write. But then, when I stop (and I have to have written 200 words to do that) I listen to a track, clear my mind out and play exactly one game of free-cell (I refuse to put any other game on my computer. I am ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say a huge thank you (woof, purr) to everyone who has come and supported the project. And please, I do understand we're in the middle of a recession and times are hard. The one thing really would appreciate, even if the funds are not available for chipping in on this, is posting links to Read more... )