• Bev at Sunday Stealing has been a blog legend for yonks now, and puts out a list of questions for bloggers suffering from writer’s block to consider, answer and share. I’ve snaffled her latest series of questions and will attempt to answer them below. If your house was on fire, which three items would you…


  • I set up this blog to shake off the writing cobwebs, but also to see, share and genuinely appreciate the good things about moving to Tasmania. An honourable intention to be sure, but in my day-to-day wanderings, there are some alarming sights as well and that’s just my reflection in shop windows most of the…


  • Brrrrr

    It is the middle of winter here in Hobart and you’d think, as an Australian, I’d be aware of this. But after twelve years of living in Switzerland and nearby France, we left there in early June on a sunny 24C day and arrived in Hobart to 8C. No problem of course. We ensured that…


  • I’ve often wondered why, if athletes insist on trying new ways to make themselves stronger and faster and better by using banned drugs and other substances, we don’t just create an Alternative Olympics that allows any form of performance enhancing pills and anyone to enter? If people are competitive and crazy enough to risk their…


  • Mangled mammals

    As you can see by now, I adore alliteration. I know that all advice from successful writers is to Avoid Alliteration Always, but the way the words complement each other, typing it or saying it out loud is rather satisfying to me. Then again, maybe I need to get out more. Speaking of which, the…