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: jokes
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
Normal blogging will shortly resume, but in the meantime…
on gingerbread my little boy says: ‘I like the bread, but not the ginger’ and on peppermint: ‘I like the mint, but not the pepper’ ps I am shamelessly fishing for the punchline to a joke which I know is … Continue reading
It's never my fault
soapOriginally uploaded by adelaide writer On Saturday night, I tanked. I was on stage under a spotlight, with a microphone in my hand AND I FORGOT WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY. Which would have been fine, except that one … Continue reading
A happy tale of woe
The printer, once turned on, makes a soft, but annoying, whining sound and nothing more. No lights, no whirrs, no beeps. I have unplugged it, shifted it, hit it with varying degrees of gentleness, but all to no avail. It’s … Continue reading
How funny is that?
Guess what? I was the runner up! Second funniest new comedian in the state as judged in a competition. The mister reckons I was a bit unlucky, and should have won, and so does my dad. It was probably the … Continue reading
About last night
I forgot to say, if you live in Adelaide, and you haven’t been, you absolutely must go and see Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer. It’s got five stars in this review and in this one MB wrote “You will go to … Continue reading
Two cows
There were two cows standing in a paddock. The first cow said: Moo The second cow said: I was gonna say that
Pathetic joke
Should you ever find yourself with an inconsolable four year old, and his five year old brother who is not helping the situation one tiny bit, feel free to make use of this joke which I made up about half … Continue reading


