Month: December 2009
Family / December 15th, 2009 
Tennyson, me, and the problem of ‘self’
Originally posted May 2009 It has been said that my favourite poet would often sit alone as a child and mutter to himself, “Alfred, Alfred, Alfred…” over and over in some sort of attempt to figure out the problem, the complexity, of self. His self. Goodness, don’t we all? We emerge from childhood into a fiery adolescence, then that…
Family / December 14th, 2009
Seven years
This is one of my favourite photos from our wedding day. It is almost certainly the most candid one. We were walking back from having the formal shots being taken up on the headland; it was about a million degrees and I, for one, was looking forward to getting back to the guests, eating, loosening up my…
Read / December 11th, 2009
Interviewed elsewhere today
Sharni asked me some questions about blogging. Here are my answers.
