Still Life With Cat

there's some new stuff over at Australian Literature Diary . Yes yes, I know Beautiful Kate is actually an Australian film adapted from...

Marking can be a terrible chore, so it's always nice to have an assistant.

You just keep looking for your glasses until you find them. You finish the novel, and then you finish the next one. You go to the chemist an...

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

Driving home this afternoon I saw in front of me a modest-sized white 4x4 with the classiest back-windscreen motto I've ever seen: Nemo ...

So last night I finally found the Tiger Balm (which was not in the drawer dedicated to Protesting Crumbling Aching Bones, Joints and Muscle...

Here's a trick I learned many years ago when writing my PhD thesis: don't leave off work on a piece of writing without knowing exac...

"If you write a thousand words today, you'll feel a thousand words less desperate and put-upon tomorrow."

I don't know why that oblivious little dog in the background is so touching. Seen it all before, obvs.

On page 5 of yesterday's Adelaide Advertiser : A woman who stabbed her partner to death with 'excessive' force has been spared j...

Wow, a two-week hiatus. I don't think I've not-blogged for that long since I started in October 2005. For some reason this time of y...

Assistance is sought from the gentle reader (and all the others, whoever you may be) on a project I dreamed up twenty minutes ago that has a...

From Corduroy Mansions : 7. Proustian-Jungian Soup Caroline thought: It's odd, sitting here, letting one's mind wander, and who sho...

... but only just. For all of this week and half of next week, I attend all-day meetings by day, do the reading and note-taking for said mee...

Get up after less than 5 hours' sleep, knowing you will not go back to sleep and wondering why you have suddenly become insomniac: tick ...

In today's Crikey newsletter, Peter Craven reports on the new Harry Potter movie: ... it’s so episodic that it actually has the material...

I spent an hour today with a dear friend drinking sparkling wine and bemoaning the state of our peer group -- almost all of whom including b...

Last time I whinged in this my OWN PERSONAL ONLINE SPACE about feeling crushed by the workload, some drive-by psycho, a species of which I s...

The combined effect of a mention of Bobbie Gentry on the current Lazy Sunday thread at Larvatus Prodeo plus the amazing clip of the equally...