Still Life With Cat

Dear Malcolm, With all your faults you are still far too good for them, and I am really enjoying the spectacle of you toughing it out to the...

1 horrible old neck injury (high-speed highway rollover, 1986: C4 and C5) x too much housework and gardening (yesterday) x general stress (o...

As Channel Seven excitedly leads up and counts down to its revelations about Premier Mike Rann and his secret, married ex-girlfriend, an aff...

Emboldened by the success (so far at least) of the Christmas cake, I set off into unknown waters yesterday and decided to make a Christmas P...

FIRE WEATHER WARNING FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA Issued at 6:55 am CDT on Thursday, 19 November 2009. Thursday, 19 November 2009 is forecast to be v...

Reading my emailed online Age this morning I was a bit shocked to see at the top of the Top Stories the headline 'Praying for twins Tri...

As I pulled up round the corner from the late-night supermarket, they were standing across the road in a little car park. Both in their twen...

As envisaged, I spent most of yesterday afternoon playing with the toy linked to in the post before last, and from that ludic activity (see ...

but some of us are running breeding programs.

A person could play with this random academic sentence generator (props to my FBF Deborah Green) all afternoon. The real challenge here is ...

If you have 25 minutes to watch it, this is just lovely: two of the most elegant and eloquent women I know, Helen Garner and Anna Goldswort...

In the wake of the federal government's decision the day before yesterday to reject the Productivity Commission's recommendation on ...

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...