Still Life With Cat

What my dear and long-departed paternal grandfather used to call the Weather Baroo has been forecasting rain in these parts for several days...

It would probably have been a better idea to force myself to stay up for another hour last night and wrap the presents. But that still would...

Late cards posted: TICK Master list (of lists to be made) drawn up: TICK Tree trimmed: TICK (Why does 'trimmed' mean putting things ...

As almost everyone who comes here knows for themselves already, a life spent reading fiction produces a swag of paragraphs that are not exac...

As at 10.17 pm Sunday night update : Christmas presents bought: 2 Christmas presents delivered: 3 (not the same ones) Morning coffee dates ...

Haven't done one of these for ages. This one is nicked from the lovely Suse of Pea Soup , who nicked it from Knitters-Knitters. THE 99 T...

Since moving back to Adelaide (eleven years ago tomorrow) and setting up house and business for myself, I've learned to tell what week i...

Some Creative Writing tips: 1) If you have one excellent plot, the fate of Central European Jews in the late 1930s, don't muddle it up ...

And as if US politics were not already exciting enough, have a look at what the New York Times has just landed in my email In box. Carolin...

Overworked. Sleep-deprived. Depressed.* Normal services will be resumed shortly, I hope. * Nothing personal, just the daily news

And in breaking news just in from my friend R ... Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy Stunning Break with Last Eight Y...

To my surprise I made my way through a whopping great list of errands in the city before lunch and am now a whole afternoon ahead of myself,...

If you've spent the morning struggling through a competent but depressing and claustrophobic novel by President Nicolas Sarkozy's cu...

Michelle Grattan reports in this morning's online Age that the Prime Minister yesterday addressed a community meeting in Geelong. Peop...

Tonight the third and last Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King , was on the teeve. I didn't mean to watch it but I just hap...

Not sure what made me notice this, but for a small house this one has an awful lot of animals in it. Never mind the pictures, we'd be he...

We has it. Found via Hoyden About Town . This is just wrong in too many ways to count, but here are four to be going on with: 1) False adve...

Last night the final email check before bed turned up two messages from friends, sent less than an hour apart. One was a sad message from A....

So the phone conversation had been impassioned and lively like it usually was, ranging widely across the far fields of subject matter exotic...

For the last week or so, the bloke across the road has been using some kind of power saw on what looks from the pile on the nature strip lik...