September 2008

A quickie

September 30, 2008

Say you catch your son dunking toothbrushes into the toilet. Say these are brand new toothbrushes on top of all the other toothbrushes you’ve purchased in the previous months because this is his new hobby. Say the toilet is very clean. Say you hold the brushes in your hand and go, “Okay, do I chuck them again [...]

I get scared

September 29, 2008

I get scared when I watch Enough Rope and see Tim Flannery*on there, close to tears, looking scared shitless because our Government and most Governments of the world aren’t doing enough to combat climate change. What’s possibly worse is that he doesn’t use extensive flowery language, but you can tell in every gesture and in [...]

The Dark Knight, The Joker and the US economic crisis

September 28, 2008

I thought this was rather cleverly done.

Author wars – pretty soon JG Ballard and Helen Garner will be battling it out between our sheets

September 27, 2008

The other night Adam and I played a little game in bed (while we’re reading, dirty people). It was called, “Out of the books we’re reading, which author makes/made more from their writing than the other?” As Adam suggested the game, I immediately launched into a defensive diatribe that it’s not about the money but [...]

The Royal Melbourne Show re-cap

September 25, 2008

We arrived in the car park just on opening time – as did tonnes of other people. We’d barely taken ten steps (remember, we’re still in the car park) before Keira saw her first food stall and asked, “Can I have some fairy floss?” “Keira, it’s only 9.30am.” {Insert blank expression} “Can I have some [...]

Keira’s Brownlow Medal fashions commentary

September 24, 2008

I’m sorry Mrs. Brent Harvey (Shane? Shayne? The papers keep spelling it differently), but Keira, upon seeing this dress, declared it, “A little bit dodgy.” But she did like the black lace belt-cummerbund-thingy. Keira’s best dressed of the night? Ms. Rebecca Twigley She would not deviate from this decision. Photos from The Age

Time for an exciting announcement

September 23, 2008

I am pleased to announce that I have signed a contract with Dennis Jones & Associates for book distribution of Surprise! in both Australia and New Zealand. Remember when I was fretting about this lack of representation and how that may affect my sales? Well, now I can breathe a whole lot easier. To explain to those [...]

Not here today, but am elsewhere

September 22, 2008

Fellow Aussie blogger and all round top lady Lightening interviewed me last week about Surprise! and has posted it up today. Go on over, take a look, and say hi!

And the award for stupidest money EVER spent goes to…

September 21, 2008

…us, for buying Riley a ticket for a movie. Yes, we had hoped that a 2.5 year old could sit through an entire movie. Granted, it was a cool looking movie like WALL-E, but, yeah, DUMB. Our motives – I suppose – were sweet and well-intentioned. Let’s do a family thing! It’ll be their ‘first’ [...]