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Migration 6 May 2013 | 04:29 pm
Now that the dust is settling around me, I am taking some time to pause, reflect, and every hour or so remind myself that I have done it. I moved to Melbourne. I live here now! Just over one month ago...
Kind of blue 4 Nov 2012 | 12:19 pm
It has been a long time since I have cooked for pleasure and an even longer time since I have written about it, or engaged at all in the act of artfully arranging words. Distressingly, I have until ve...
Pride, stripped bare 12 Apr 2012 | 11:42 pm
I have lost my muse. At least, I have misplaced her, along with my dignity, self respect and several odd socks. My inability to write over the past weeks has been a genuine source of alarm; for withou...
The house that sanity built 23 Feb 2012 | 10:54 am
I have just awoken from my first sleepover in my new house. After more than two years living with my parents by the riverside, I have flown the nest for the second time to a beautiful historic house o...
A little bit of Holland Down Under 10 Feb 2012 | 10:12 am
In a continuation of the reorganising frenzy that saw me practically catalogue my books according to the Dewey Decimal system, I have lately been tidying up my hard drive. Generally, I use my computer...
A mere trifle 5 Feb 2012 | 12:38 am
As many readers of this blog would be aware, I have faced a long struggle with mental illness and was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder (also known as manic depressive illness). I have always b...
Heroes and Villains (Chapter 1) 8 Jan 2012 | 11:28 pm
Thanks to our recent discovery of a previously unnoticed vermin habitat, I spent a good part of this weekend reorganising my reasonably extensive collection of books, which has lately been stored in m...
2011: the year that almost wasn’t 31 Dec 2011 | 08:39 pm
I am a woman of many words. But words are beginning to fail me as we approach that most arbitrary, hopeful and hollow promise of new beginnings, the hour when one year becomes another. Each of the pas...
Fasterchef 7 Aug 2011 | 06:04 pm
Every year, at about this time, friends and acquaintances begin encouraging me to apply for Masterchef Australia. Aside from the fact that this is largely due to a kind and flattering overestimation o...
Timberrrrrrrrrr! 2 Aug 2011 | 11:51 pm
Sadly my creative juices haven’t been flowing lately; at least, I think I have been expending them on resurrecting my musical talent instead of arranging words in a pleasing fashion. Though I also hav...
