I recently discovered a poster on a friend’s fridge that outlined Cuts of Beef and their common uses. It was an interesting chart that taught me which parts of the cow are which in relation to a mixed grill. It’s a nice poster with some nice typography and, unlike the real-life versions in an abbatoir, …
Birds! Corner of Barkly and McDougall Streets, Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia.
Sydney is a fun city for a weekend. Beyond that I can make no informed comment about the place. Here are the funnest of the funs from the weekend in the ‘arbour city with my traveling partner Sean #3 (I knew two Seans before him). I. Gatz What an amazing piece of theatre/experience-that-wasn’t-really-like-theatre-at-all. You’ve never …
Tomorrow morning I leave for four days in Sydney which, at the moment, can only be described as ‘the future’. To be less withholding, I am heading up for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. It should be a good weekend. In particular I’m looking forward to the Don’t Tell the Teenagers: Young Adult Fiction That’s “Too …
It’s a pretty weird feeling receiving your own book in the mail.
A recent weekend spent down at Point Lonsdale and Queenscliff yielded four new, second-hand books purchased from Barwon Booksellers – a tidy, slightly expensy second-hand bookshop found within what used to be a small church. Quaint, indeed. I now look forward to reading for the first time ever The Chocolate War and Harriet the Spy. …
Firstly I should mention that, yes, I do suck for not seeing out Blog Every Day April (BEDA). I blogged right up until April 28 and then I could blog no more. Like a marathon runner who gets to the finish line ribbon, looks at it for a while and then sits down for a …
The Greatest Blogger in the World went to press yesterday. Nothing will stop it now. Fate, destiny, something else, yada yada, etc. And to really kick home the subtle ‘journey’ theme of this blog post, here’s the first notes I made about the book, late in 2007.
So I officially suck at BEDA (Blog Every Day April). Blogging every day is hard work especially when the world offers distractions like french toast, Fleetwood Mac and Hannah Montana. Plus the Melbourne weather decided to cut to the chase this weekend and sent us headlong into Winter. Which meant it was time to get …