Santa came early to my house.

This is going to be a bits and pieces blog, today. I hope you can cope with the “collage effect”, but that’s how my brain’s working these days. Re the “book”: An agent has asked to read the whole manuscript. They liked the sample I...

Lightning strikes twice…

Back in the 90s I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had a mastectomy, 6 months of chemotherapy and five weeks of radiotherapy. The doctor told me that if the cancer came back it would be bad news, because there was no cure for ‘secondaries’. It would...

The wedding

Son’s wedding on the weekend: gorgeous setting by a rock-pool, with ducks in the creek and roses going mad with colour. It was simply a beautiful, happy, loving, joy-filled day and evening. The reception was lit with a myriad of ‘fairy’ lights and...

Books and me.

Yesterday I spent the afternoon with a group of women in the local college. (Hello girls!) I gave a “Readers’ Digest” version of my life and also talked about being a writer. I organized my thoughts around something the children’s writer...

The grapes of…?

Yesterday the Old Boy and I took two lovely Irish ladies on a short trip through the Barossa Valley. They’re the mother and aunty of my son’s fiancee, out here for the wedding. (Only two weeks to go!) We had a nice day: the weather was perfect, the vines...