The story so far
I'm from Adelaide, but I'm living in Abu Dhabi right now. One day, I saw a gold leaf four wheel drive. It made me cry.
My first novel, Black Dust Dancing, was published by Wakefield Press in March 2009. It looks like this:
Category Archives: comedy
Advice, freely dispensed
Every year at Adelaide Fringe and Festival time the searches for nutri grain nuts and bolts and ‘slow as a wet wig’ diminish in proportion to the number of searches for ‘jokes about Adelaide’ and ‘Adelaide jokes’. I suspect not all of these searches are by visiting comedians, Continue reading
Commentary
I am in the camp who believes you are not funny if you are being mean. But I have made an exception for Ricky Gervais.
And on the way home we got rained on
Did you know that there is a Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre? Neither did I. But there is. These dudes, Clewis Productions seem to be associated with it, and we went to their Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes which was … Continue reading
Posted in being, Blogopera, comedy, Reading, Writing
Tagged books and reading, edinburgh festival fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, theatre, words and phrases
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Is it Wednesday already?
Pleased to report that I am having a most excellent time. Over five performances, my (modest) audience expectations have been reached every night and exceeded three times. More importantly, people are enjoying it. Over the last few nights, more than … Continue reading
Lots to say, but too tired to be articulate…
I have so much to tell you, but I’m tired…so very, very tired. My venue has Sundays off, for which I am extraordinarily grateful. Sitting on a couch (which is draped in a spread of dubious colour to hide the … Continue reading
Rite of passage
My youngest boy quickly realises that commission-based flyering isn’t the deal that he thought it was. I have told him that for each person he convinces to come to the show, I’ll give him one pound – after only one … Continue reading
It's in the job specification
The mister My tech crew has arrived. We took him on a bit of a walk around the ‘hood (‘here’s where we buy our musk sticks’ and ‘here’s where Mum buys her wine’), then down to the Royal Mile, checked … Continue reading
Posted in comedy
Tagged dishes, edinburgh festival fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, home economics, the mister
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It's Saturdays. They always make me homesick
Wettest July since 1888 according to last night’s weather presenter. I must say, coming from Australia’s increasingly frightening drought, I find being in this rain…I’m not sure of the word exactly…not ‘reassuring’ not ‘comforting’ not ‘a relief’. But it’s certainly … Continue reading
Lighten up
It’s all very earnest around here at the moment, isn’t it? Which is funny, because I keep getting all these google searches ‘comedy edinburgh’ and ‘comedian librarian’ and so on. Goodness knows what they think when the land here. Anyway, … Continue reading
I think we'll visit the castle tomorrow
I was doing the dishes and listening to a radio programme about Muriel Spark and her new biography. I had forgotten that Muriel Spark’s son lived with her parents. The biographer explained this by saying something along the lines of, … Continue reading
