Click to enlarge. Here’s a photo. Can you name what and where? Here are some clues. It’s recent – within the last month.It’s in Australia (taken by my sister on her perambulations)It portrays something that doesn’t happen very often. No … Continue reading
Catch up housework day. On the lounge room spring clean. Discovered two enormous lizards behind one of the bookcases (after I’d emptied and moved the bookcase.) Not the usual wall geckoes, but the Spotted Gecko that makes messes that you … Continue reading
We went to see the movie “Push” starring Dakota Fanning and Chris Evans, today. Basically I went because I know the director, Paul McGuigan – and I’m glad I went. I note from some of the reviews that many people … Continue reading
General requirements: Requires no intelligence, just a really, really weird idea of what it titillating. Would help, actually, to be mindless. Otherwise a highly developed sense of humour is advised.Not suitable for: anyone subject to repetitive wrist injury. Might help … Continue reading
PART ONE I had an email from someone some time ago, which I didn’t reply because I was so busy, but it deserves an answer. In fact, the problem is so universal for first time novelists that I decided to … Continue reading
Ok, so book gone to another stage, and unlike my dear and quite crazy friend Karen, I don’t plunge straight into writing another half-dozen books the next day. For a start my brain won’t stand for it. And second, neither … Continue reading
I have delivered my MS for Stormlord Rising, which is book two of The Watergiver trilogy (at least, that is what it is being called in Australia. In UK and US, I think they are avoiding giving the trilogy as … Continue reading
……… 1. Why do manufacturers of computer keyboards go to all the bother of painting the letters on the keys, yet haven’t bothered to find a way of doing it that doesn’t wear off in three months of usage by … Continue reading
From Reuters: see here for full article. (Sylvia Westall, May 13). Race to Lead IAEA Has No Clear Front-Runner, Diplomats SayThursday, May 14, 2009 “As of now, on their own, if you put any one name of these five on … Continue reading
Imagine this. You are enjoying the cool beauty of the tropical highlands in the Awana Golf Resort, just over an hour’s journey from Kuala Lumpur. You are surrounded by the wonders and abundance of tropical rainforest diversity. So what does … Continue reading
