During the week my housemates and I found an old skull hanging on the fence in our backyard. We had never seen it before in our lives. Well, OK, one of us had. The rest of us just hadn’t looked very hard before. Rather than be spooked by the skull on the fence I have …
I am a Tintin freak. It is true. And so I wanted to share one of the coolest little Tintin videos I have seen. This short video clip is taken from a Swiss documentary made in 1960 about Tintin and his creator Hergé (though I’ve never heard of this particular doco before; however the 2003 …
Today I spent a lovely morning down at Alphington Primary School in Melbourne’s inner-north talking to the Grade Threes and Fours about my book, blogging and writing in general. They were a fun bunch and at the end of the morning we all wrote a little story together. One student – Tom – did a …
If you haven’t seen it over at www.thegreatestbloggerintheworld.com there is currently a Greatest Blogger in the World competition going to write a small blog post and go into the running to win one of two Apple MacBooks. Pretty cool, huh? To enter all you have to do is write a blog post that contains these …
The Greatest Blogger in the World was officially launched last week at Readings Carlton in Melbourne by author/broadcaster Tony Wilson. It was a lovely evening. Tony said nice things about the book, lots of people came to listen to him, most importantly, I got to wear a suit jacket. And it wasn’t even a wedding. …
When I look out the kitchen window at the moment there are men next door building some kind of house that looks more like a giant outside toilet. It’s such a small place to construct any kind of building. Perhaps the men are just building their own personal cubby house. That would be pretty cool. …
I have a friend called Ken. He thought that he could make improvements to my book. Thanks a lot, Ken. Here are his ‘improvements’ with apologies to the fantastic cover illustrator Gregory Baldwyn. So what do you think? Personally I’m just glad he didn’t think of The Greatest Bogger in the World because I would …
After the comments and feedback left on my previous post about the bits and pieces that make up one’s beard, I now present the revised edition of The Anatomy of the Common Beard. And here’s the KEY: PHILTRUMLINGS: The hair of the philtrum. SIDEBURNLINGS: The hair of the sideburn. CHEEKFUZZLINGS: The fuzzy hair of the …
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Winter is certainly a time when beards are at their most sported. Every second or third man seems to wear a beard at some point of winter. After a discussion on Twitter today about the various parts of the beard, mostly with a chap called Phill, a new set of beard terms have been reached …