Still Life With Cat

Some time in the last few hours, the visitor stats here (not unique visits, of course -- my freebie basic-level counter doesn't do anyth...

No specifics, for reasons that will be obvious to frequent users of the interwebs, but various little events recently have reminded me how m...

As threatened, I have made Deborah Strange Land's family's traditional Christmas cake, and it is in the oven. Deborah has beautiful ...

... were announced today. Evelyn Juers' House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann shared the nonficti...

Recent events have inspired me to have another go at reviving my dedicated Aust Lit blog, Australian Literature Diary , which has been lyin...

Thanks to some up-to-the-minute Facebooking by Judith Ridge of Misrule , I have just seen the shortlist for the 2009 NSW Premier's Prize...

Commenter BS has taken me up on my offer to help find Adelaide volunteers to give any one or more of these three kittens and their mum a goo...

And not just any blogger but my dear friend Stephanie of Humanities Researcher , who feels that her blog played no small part in winning one...

For interested Adders readers, the Flinders University Library and Australian Book Review are hosting a free, no-bookings-necessary event i...