Just saw the photos of my imaginary friend’s wedding and they are lovely – makes me feel all soft and gooey inside. Awwwww. It’s been a week for romance – not that I’ve been getting any with Groover “on location” – another friend announced her engagement this week. She proposed. By post-it note. Now that [...]
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Groover was reading this book the other day “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.” Not sure why he felt the need really but anyhoo… In the book apparently anything at all can be a pick-up line, even the line – Do you floss first or brush first? It doesn’t matter really what [...]
Larrikin found this site – which I think is really interesting. As you would expect Europe and the US are heavily populated, but so is the sub-continent – the surprise for me was that Asia was pretty bare. Which suggests that the programmer didn’t have access to Chinese publications. Australia, particularly Western Australia is also [...]
Last weekend I was asked to chair two sessions at the Words and Ideas Festival – part of PIAF. I’m usually pretty nervous about these things but as you know I love reading so the chance to score a pile of books and be *forced* to read for *work* seemed my kind of heaven. Originally [...]
If you can beg borrow or steal tickets to Keating! on at the Octagon as part of the Perth International Arts Festival – go and see it. Clever, outrageously pro-Keating, hilarious, naughty – the singing is fantastic, the music varied, the atmosphere great. I loved it. Here’s what they say: Share in the heady rise, [...]
I loved this site! (And thanks to Meish for the link) It’s something I do anyway – seek out books that talk about places when I visit them. Usually I find them after I’ve been there which is irritating. Sometimes I plan trips around places I’ve read about – Jane Austen got me to Bath [...]
Tonight went to see Book Slam, part of PIAF and the brainchild of Patrick Neate. Book Slam heads down under for the first time to humbly hand over the ashes of English literature. We will be joined for the ceremony by: – - ANTHONY SWOFFORD, author of Jarhead and now Exit A – Award-winning poet [...]
My Book Magazine Book has arrived! It was a little… er… smaller than I thought it would be and so is a little more of a challenge! The photo doesn’t really tell you how small – 6cm x 4cm! Let me know if you’d like me to send it to you once I’m done. Of [...]
I probably wouldn’t still be singing for my supper at the age of 70… so perhaps the years haven’t been so financially kind to him as they might… still if that’s the case it is our gain for I think Topol has probably grown into the role he has made famous. I took my MIL [...]
I took A to see Wild Cursive last night – the world-renowned dance company Cloudgate from Taiwan. I have to admit to not enjoying it. There, I’ve said it. I know, I know it is high art and very good but it was too avant garde for me. Give me a pretty costume or at [...]
