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Today, on Australia Day, we celebrate our privilege to live in a democratic country, with clean air, clean water, fresh food, good health care, accessible education for all and a beautiful, extraordinary, challenging, inspiring landscape. Everyone loves the land of...

Earlier this week, I was working on a client's manuscript... (Actually, I've been working on this one so long the client is now a good - although living in another hemisphere - friend.) As I was saying; I was working on his manuscript tidying, correcting spelling and...

The munchkins came for a sleep-over with The Old Boy, Rex and me. As it's summer time here in the Land of Oz, we decided after tea to take them to the beach for a swim and an icecream. We brought the Wonder Dog with us. I had visions of a nice stroll along the sand,...

I had an interesting chat with a friend on Facebook re The Hobbit and I thought I'd drag the conversation/discussion/surely-not-an-argument here to my little blog. Someone had posted an article decrying Tolkien's perceived misogyny, or at least his ambivalence towards...

The week between Christmas and New Year is an extended version of Easter Saturday: the hiatus between "then" and "what is to come". I suppose for many of us it's a time to sort the wrapping paper into the ripped-beyond-redemption and the can-probably-reuse piles. It's...

I'm just a tad annoyed with the Mayans. You'd think they could have found a bigger piece of rock to carve their calendar on and we could have been spared the latest hullabaloo. I've done my best to have a bit of fun with it but, let's face it, it's really irritating...