Younger Daughter arrives for a week’s visit. Yay!Civets are having another family in the roof. Argumentive kids, squeaking nonstop. Darn.House needs cleaning. Yuk.Mosque imans over in Terengganu state are to give sermons on protecting endangered species, especially turtles. Overdue, but … Continue reading
Yep, the new offspring is bathed, powdered, prettied up and delivered. Wordy little fellow – the longest yet, with a count of 183,000. I don’t think Baby Next is going to be quite that long, but can’t be sure at … Continue reading
…the fellow is still resisting perfection. Keeps coughing up typos for a start. And occasionally is terribly long-winded, so that I have to keep burping him by hitting the delete key. Not talking to anyone until I send him off … Continue reading
Book 1 of Random Rain goes off to the publisher on Monday. (Hey, that’s two weeks before its due!) So how’s your weekend? And here’s Book 2: And here’s a photo from San Francisco. Love that city! … Continue reading
Take a look at either this site or this one.And sign this petition here. Please. My signature is number 107. I have seen some of these things with my own eyes, and it breaks my heart. Rarely can I spend … Continue reading
If you couldn’t get to Denvention back in August, but want to read the excellent Guest of Honour speech, it is up on the internet and you can read it here. (The GoH was the wonderfully talented and lovely lady, … Continue reading
Yeah, I’m writing, folk. Don’t interrupt… And Book 1, STORMQUEST gets delivered to HarperCollins Voyager Australia next Monday. He who commands a stormlord, commands the water of a nation… … Continue reading
I found a new word. I have been looking for this one all my life…and now that I have found it I love it. I want to use it. Horripilation. It rolls off the tongue. It sends shivers up my … Continue reading
Satima Flavell (on Satima’s Blogspot) pointed the way to this website (http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/results) which asked people from all over the world how they would vote in the US presidential elections. Result (very unscientific of course, but wonderfully interesting) was overwhelming for … Continue reading
On the last day of the ecotourism conference (at which I was speaking on the potential of birdwatching in mangrove areas) we had dinner by the swimming pool under the moon and stars…and watched cultural dances (Malay in the bright … Continue reading
