Cakes, wombats and wonders
CAKES The oven is full of five Christmas cakes, with another five waiting on the bench; the big boiler on top of the stove has one large...
Wonderful visit to Blackheath Public School
Four hours talk without stopping at Blackheath Public School with other local schools too and it was WONDERFUL. Fantastic kids, brilliant...
The Moral Omnivore - Why I eat meat
I don’t feel guilty killing (some, and a very very few) chooks to eat. I do feel guilty eating a battery hen or other animals killed in a...
Six Ways Not to Read a Book … or the Six Great Literary Myths
Anyone who is reading this probably assumes they can read a book. But have you been doing it wrong? (Bad grammar intentional. Words and I...
Save Trove
Trove is the National Library's online data base. It gives us the past, stretching back from yesterday. It gives us the future, too....
The Stories Women Tell
Grandma, Mum and a baby, Great Grandma and Great Great Aunt Nin or possibly Great Great Aunt Emily This month is Women's History Month:...
Bologna Book Fair
Eight Principessas and one Laundrette are off to the International Book Fair and Laureate Summit in Bologna. The Principessas, all major...
Tardis, anyone?
I need a TARDIS. Just a small one. Even a time-share TARDIS would do. A way to get to three conferences and four schools in a day, and...
Wombat weather forecast?
Phil was such a sweet little wombat, survivor of many operations on his leg, bashed up by the other wombats… how could we not give him...
