Still Life With Cat

I'm seeing a lot of complaining from east of the border about how hot it is. Now the Victorians just aren't used to sunshine and you...

Sometimes it's because someone else will be hurt, sometimes it's because someone else will be humiliated, sometimes it's because...

I've just finished reading the latest Patricia Cornwell. Its title is The Scarpetta Factor , which considering that the previous one was...

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

When I first saw this article about Publishers Weekly and its all-male-author Best Books of 2009 (ah yes, it's that time of year again...

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

... the recipe for which is here . Stage 1: Shopping Scary, innit. I've never made a Christmas cake before in my life, but there is a fi...

It's been nearly eleven years since I moved into this house and over those years I have found redback spiders in a number of places: tuc...

Last night I went to the premiere screening of a new short film by young local filmmakers Sonya Humphrey (producer) and Ashlee Page (writer-...

(1) If you're trying to think through/develop/write a complicated argument about Aboriginal writing and its relationship to ideas about ...

Ploughing sadly through the various horrors of the Adelaide news this morning, I came across an altogether more frivolous item about SA peop...

It's been a long and painful process and even now I occasionally succumb to temptation, but I've learned over four years of blogging...

Here's what I want to know: who was it who watched the Jackson Jive act on old Hey Hey footage from decades ago, when the participants ...

So when I got home this afternoon from fifteen rounds with a sibling -- the ferocious upfront one, all teeth and claws all the time, and no ...

So, will my Visitor stats hit 60,000 today? And if they do, will I get a special cookie? UPDATE, 6.30 pm: Yes! All ur numberz are belong to ...

Because these days, apparently, you can get any old crap published. Any old offensive, outrageous, barking, evil crap at all. A taste, if ...

It's four years ago today since I tentatively followed the 2005 Blogger step-by-step instructions and eventually, to my own astonishment...

Sorry folks, I have a new troll -- some free-market worshipper behaving the way such types usually behave online, with the emphasis on anony...

Random blog posts I would write if only [insert excuse here] One about the common motivation behind nearly all of the negative reactions I...