July 2010

Dell Laptop + Security Software Giveaway Competition Ends TODAY!

July 30, 2010

Updated: Winners! Congratulations to comment #6 – Hear Mum Roar - you’ve won the Dell Laptop + Bitdefender Security Software! Congratulations to commenters #24 Peta, #17 Felicity, #4 Nerida, #26 Erin, & #13 my_immortalize – you’ve won a Bitdefender Security Software pack. Thank you all very much for entering. Just a last minute reminder for all Australian readers that [...]

An Education (in Batman)

July 29, 2010

What I’m Reading, Late July

July 28, 2010

Finishing: The Tenth Man, Graham Greene. Borrowed from the library this week: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke The Last Love Story, Rodney Hall Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan Batman: The Ultimate Guide to The Dark Knight*, Scott Beatty *For the kids, but Adam and I have been dipping into it. Fascinating stuff. Riley [...]

Shopping with Children

July 27, 2010

The scene: a lingerie shop. The air is deceptively neutral, but there is a whiff of something else; unworn cotton, perhaps. Newness. Hope. My son steps up and stands beside a woman who has taken a bra off a display of many to touch and inspect. My son copies her, and tugs the straps indifferently. “Mum. This [...]

Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2010 – my session wish-list

July 26, 2010

Like always, there’s so much I want to see, but family commitments being as they are, I won’t get to them all. I’m particularly planning to get to: Joss Whedon’s Keynote Address, Friday 27th August, 9.30pm, Melbourne Town Hall. Tickets already purchased! (Luckily – they’ve sold out) The Amplified Author – Exploring New Business Models For [...]

Saturday Sampler

July 24, 2010

Riley left me a heart-shaped leaf on my bedside table. Cute.

Broken Down

July 23, 2010

Made tinsel by conniving sunlight, the mist sparkles outside but I can only think of the cold. My fingertips tingle discomfort bores through spaces between ball and joint I turn the key in the ignition and for the fiftieth time it fails hope cannot turn over the engine here, alone, with pen and notepad; childless, waiting [...]

Do It Yourself Drawing

July 22, 2010

I think she’s going to take after her daddy*… …and not me! * Adam sat down and painted that in ten-or-so minutes. No pencil sketches first – just from head straight to paper. (Paper stained with god-knows what.)

I write like…

July 21, 2010

I write like Jack London I write like David Foster Wallace I write like H. P. Lovecraft I Write Like has become somewhat of a phenomenon in its short life (less than a month* at time of my writing this!) It already has a Wikipedia page. Like other curious people, I gave it a go this week. [...]