Okay, here we go. I said before Christmas that I admire Anna Funder and wanted to read Stasiland – well, now I have. And all the hype is justified – it’s terrific. I remember when the Berlin Wall fell – it was a month short of my eleventh birthday. As I looked at the news, with the…
Technically, this isn’t a tutorial so much as a walk through of the latest construction the kids are building together. They play off the server hosted on Adam’s computer which Keira then logs into via the LAN and it is surprising how productive they can be in a short period of time. I have more to say…
I come from an extended family that is naturally curious and genuinely interested about the world. Case in point, my mother has been giving to my grandfather the same present at Christmas for years: a subscription to both Australian Geographic and National Geographic – while treating herself to the same, for good measure. If you…
My Writers vs Bloggers post last year was extremely popular and as a way of commemorating that a bit – as well as making my own writing load a bit lighter today, literally and metaphorically – I thought I’d expand it just a little and have some fun. Because what’s better than a little schadenfreude? A whole…
And what’s the best thing to do when one is aggrieved? Watch Sam Rockwell dance, of course. Will it solve anything? No – but it helps. Okay, as you were. (But I dare you not to hum James Brown for the rest of the night. DARE YOU I SAY.) * Never mind why. Yes, this…
These holidays have gone by quickly; so fast in fact that I’m quite sorry (this once!) that school goes back today. You see, between my being at work and Adam taking the kids away last week, plus Easter, I didn’t really feel I’d seen them very much, let alone spend any quality time in their…
For several years a suitcase was resident in our garage. It sat in a corner behind boxes of books and dusty tools, alongside rags and assorted broken appliances, as inconspicuous as any other banished object that normally occupies such a place. Except this is not true; I know it and, out there, I think you…
I’ve just finished Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes and in hindsight I think I’m relieved I’ve done so without having seen any of the movie adaptations – although I doubt anyone comes to adulthood without discovering the iconic final moments in the Charlton Heston version and what it signifies about what had happened to…
The amazing work of Guy Laramee – making carved landscapes out of books. Go to his website to see the rest. This deliciously sarcastic blog post entitled ‘You’re Bored? That’s so AWESOME!‘ has some nice links to follow if perhaps you find yourself in a similar predicament one day. I’d heard of the mosaic method…
