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:
Tag Archives: cooking and food
Black, no sugar
Iced tea got warm is drinkable, whereas hot tea gone cold is not. Or, more precisely, but simultaneously less: iced tea got warm is not undrinkable, whereas hot tea gone cold is.
Chandeliers look a bit like meringues, but not really, that's a fairly dubious link
In answer to the question, it is indeed b. our health and fitness club. I present you with, the chandelier: From Recently Updated updated to add: yes, v disappointed not one of youse believed this might be in my apartment … Continue reading
Because it's all about the cultural experience
The mister didn’t realise there was a separate cheese counter as well as the fridge, so he came back with this. I’ve never understood the orange-ness of American cheese. I find it rather disconcerting. As does eldest boy who said, … Continue reading
Tagged cooking and food, home economics
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and in breaking news…
…it is not impossible to f*ck up mashed potato.
Tagged cooking and food
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a public service announcement
Here’s a short list of things to not do the first day off the lounge after a bout of food poisoning, which set in about an hour after you made a public swipe at Parkinson via your online personal journal: … Continue reading
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Meltdown
Flicking through one of my many lists of things To Do – this one divided into Big, Medium, Little, then further into Long (term), Medium, Short – I realise that the deadline for the ABC Fiction Awards is looming. June … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking and food, home economics, repeat after me: good writing is rewriting
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Without a dishwasher, the memory of Christmas lingers a little longer than it otherwise would
Ice cream can’t go wrong. Anyone want some ham? A game of badminton? Cricket? Connect four? A chapter of Captain Underpants? First ball* in half an hour. *Cricket reference
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Tagged being a mother (good-bad-indifferent), Christmas, cooking and food
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teh christmas bombe part one
Some years ago, when FirstCat was about to turn one, and SecondCat was perhaps a few weeks away from being conceived, I said to my mother-in-law can I help with anything? It is the kind of question to which you … Continue reading
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Tagged being a mother (good-bad-indifferent), Christmas, cooking and food
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a phrase I just discovered, but very much like
like putting lipstick on a pig I’m sure that will come in useful, one day.
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Tagged being a mother (good-bad-indifferent), cooking and food, words and phrases
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