We’ve come from blowing raspberries when he was a few months old … … to now stealing my iPhone when I’m not looking (and better balancing the camera than I ever can) to make a tutorial and ask people to “vote (for it) on Facebook”. He even holds it together when Keira interrupts the proceedings….
Whenever the moment comes to tear open that first box, anticipating the look of the books, their feel, trying to gauge all the emotions – I tell you, it remains to be quite an experience. I doubt it will ever be different – assuming this happens again – and I wouldn’t want it to be…
Read / November 14th, 2012
Vanished Years is Everett’s new memoir – his first, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, is recognised as one of the best ever celebrity autobiographies. I’ve not read it, although if Vanished Years is anything to go by I can see why it got accolades. He is bitchy and brutally assessing, to others and of…
Me: “How was school?” Child: “We got to write down the names of the people we’d like to be in the same class as next year.” Me: “Oh yeah, who did you pick?” Child: [rattles off some names] Me: [Surprised at one or two of those names] Really? Why? Child: For strategic reasons, I suppose….
Those of you who are new to this blog this year might be wondering what the above means? Am I about to go on a stanley-knife-crafty-hot-glue-and-myriad-coloured-cardboard-card-making orgy? No. First, a reminder of this year’s chosen charity. Taken from my introductory post back in January: I’ve been aware of The Starlight Children’s Foundation for years. A former…
GREAT books (it’s like they read my blog and know what I like!), tea samples, book orders and a cheque! Blogging will resume to a semi-regular schedule soon. Life is frantic to say the least … and the state of the house? The less said the better. x
I arrived early up to Sydney this past Thursday to spend some time with my sister. In one of those twists of fate (or chance), she now works out in the same suburb where I used to live. I spent a lot of time walking around, taking photographs – making some people look twice in…
The October/November issue of Bookseller+Publisher Magazine has the first review of Crying in the Car: Reflections on Life and Motherhood. With their kind permission, I’ve attached it below: Click here if you want to see the full-scale version. I’m pretty chuffed! Those of you interested in pre-ordering, the link to put your name down…
