I know posting about this is tantamount at waving a red flag at fate and saying “Yoo hoo! Over here! Time to break a fingernail!” but I don’t care. I’ve managed to grow my fingernails quite long and they’ve not broken all week, despite gardening on Sunday and I wanted a record.. Noice. By the [...]
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Claiming that my son is a huge fan and would be sick-makingly jealous if I had my photo taken with him, I stood next to the (surprisingly not tall) Chas Licciardello from The Chaser and smiled. Of course it’s me who is the big fan… and Hugamuga… but one doesn’t want to be so uncool. [...]
I was feeling a bit uninspired this evening. Don’t want to cook dinner. Don’t want to clean up. Don’t want to do any work. Don’t have a book on the go. Don’t have any “projects”. And then I hear a loud exclamation from the lounge room. The show on the telly is The Biggest Loser. [...]
I picked up this book in my local bookshop last Sunday. It was a toss up between this one and a Philippa Gregory novel Wild…something… I loved the way this book started. “Sorry of my English.” Zhuang is a Chinese language student who arrives in London to attend an English language school in order to [...]
We’ve had 63 mm of rain in Perth today. The wettest start of April which more than doubles the previous record set in 1964. 90.6mm. W00t. Not good news for those promoting the second desalination plant in Binninup – always easier to get those things through when the dam levels are low, and not good [...]
Ian Rankin‘s book The Hanging Gardenis one of his Inspector Rebus novels. You might have seen the Rebus TV series starring John Hannah? In this book Rebus investigates two crimes. A war crime and some gangster in-fighting. Both complex, both in their way intriguing and somehow inter-related. Rebus is a miserable bugger. Wedded to his [...]
I picked up this book over Easter. One of our teenage guests had read it for school and was writing a paper on it. It’s not a long read – I read it over the course of a morning. Chinese Cinderella is the autobiographical tale of Adeline Yen Mah – you may have seen her [...]
I started reading The Cleft intrigued by this idea of women existing in a population without men. Spontaneously becoming pregnant and birthing only girl babies. Then comes the fateful day when a “monster” is born – a boy baby. How they react to this change in their circumstances and how it changes their society is [...]
