Floundering is a first-time novel by Romy Ash. It's the story of two boys who are reclaimed by their dysfunctional mother after a year of living happily with their grandparents, and taken on a mysterious and foreboding road trip. The novel starts strongly and incorporates some beautifully descriptive writing which evokes a clear sense of the … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Dreaming
Photo by David Fitzpatrick This week's photo challenge is dreaming (I don't think my brother has used the technique described but the photo still seems dreamy to me). I think this photo I have previously published probably suits the technique a bit better. … [Read more...]
Anatomy of Marriage
Marriage, the whole "till death us do part" thing, is a big commitment. What you don't realise in that first flush of pheromones and the heady early days is that you are committing to a whole lot more than you first thought. You are agreeing to love - even when the spouse is being an idiot. You are agreeing to honour - even when you know … [Read more...]
Trapped in Re-runs
We don't have pay TV - Mr Shambles is a conscientious objector to paying for television - "they want me to pay for this drivel?" However, he did upgrade our 13-year-old television to a digital model. So now we can't get the ABC at all and during rainy weather (and let me tell you it rains a lot here on the coast) we endure the … [Read more...]
The Birth of A Blog – The Podcasting Episode
Dear Guinea Pigs Readers You have nobody but yourselves to blame for this, you insist on coming back to the blog, you leave lovely comments, some of you even tell me I'm FUNNY. All it does is encourage me. I go off to blogging conferences and I come back with IDEAS. Which of course I then have to test out. This week's great idea is … [Read more...]
The One Where I Try To Exercise
After the great shopping disaster where I was unable to find a suitable outfit for "my body shape" I decided with just four months of my Project 44 challenge left I probably should tackle the one goal I hadn't even attempted yet. The losing weight one. The treadmill was unearthed from the garage when I first announced this goal, and has sat … [Read more...]
Monday Morning Photo – Dawn
Photo by David Fitzpatrick - Dawn at Flynns Beach Port Macquarie … [Read more...]
The Art of Procrastination
I am on holidays. They started last Friday and give me 10 straight days with no work distraction to undertake all those tasks I have been "gunna" do. It gives me 10 days to implement some of the ideas from the blogging conference. To focus on posts for the blog (maybe even get some written in advance to help with the 6.00am panic which overtakes me … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement
Photo by David Fitzpatrick The aerial ballet of a surfing wipeout is our entry for the photo of the week … [Read more...]
Should We Raise Our Daughters To Be Nice?
Yesterday I noticed this tweet from writer, broadcaster and comedian, Catherine Deveny and it got me thinking about the way we raise our daughters. I sometimes lament my own "niceness". I like to help people, I'm (mostly) kind, too polite for my own good and don't like to offend anyone. Is that a drawback in modern society? At times I … [Read more...]
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