I do like an old handwritten recipe. I think baking something from an old handwritten recipe is to personally connect across time. Most people know that during WWI Anzac biscuits were baked in Australia and New Zealand and sent to men serving overseas. The ingredients were easy to come by, they were easy to cook, … Continue reading
Gladioli is the plural of gladiolus. Who knew? Gladdies were my first favourite flower. My earliest gardening memories are helping my grandmother plant out the bulbs (right way up). There are over 300 species of gladioli but oddly only one colour in my garden. A very pretty plain pink one we found growing in the … Continue reading
Life can be a piece of crap sometimes. Thank god we have fictional universes to divert our attention. Sometimes it is the little things. Here are three of my little highlights this month. One: Dolores in Westworld saying, “I imagined a world where I didn’t have to be the damsel.” (There are so many reasons to love … Continue reading
On Friday I said to my daughter, “Take all this nail polish, I will never in my whole entire life ever paint my nails again.” Sunday night I painted my nails. Over the next two days, I have picked at my nails and they look like old paint peeling walls. I am like an 8-year-old … Continue reading
Don’t expect hard science here. I do not have a good relationship with science. Mostly because of a science teacher who mumbled. Old Ernie was not the most exciting of educators. At GenreCon, back in November last year, I attended a workshop run by Charlotte Nash entitled “The Neuroscience of Reading and How it Makes … Continue reading
From the Beauty Myth to Femme Fatales #6Degrees #books Continue reading
I feel remiss that I have not wished my book a happy first birthday this month! Of course, Cassandra received the best birthday gift in the form of a shortlisting in the Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel category but having given birth to Cassandra I should also officially say Happy Birthday. It’s been a whole year since … Continue reading
