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: shack
not quite full moon reflected on a not quite still sea
This evening, I am watching Look Both Ways and drinking exactly the right amount of red. It’s that kind of night, don’t you think? Do you know why it’s one of my favourite films? Because of the train driver and … Continue reading
Thank you, the only way I know how
Yesterday, for the second time in a week, people we don’t know, and people we will probably never meet, saved our block of land. From bushfire. They were sleeping in tents and some of them were very far from home. … Continue reading
Where was Chad?
My football wishes are few: that Port win and the Crows lose. So it’s lucky we were in a place where we could listen to the game (the radio of course) by the light of a campfire with a clear … Continue reading
Easter Sunday morning
I am not a morning person. Except, on the morning I lifted my head to see my two boys both sitting up in their beds looking through the uncurtained windows of our now bat-proof, but unlikely-to-ever-be-powered shack, windows through which … Continue reading
tracks in the sand
IMG_1127 Originally uploaded by adelaide writer. According to my wise friend, the ends of old decades are much harder than the beginning of new ones. ‘When you’re 40,’ she said, ‘it’s a celebration and everyone tells you how good you … Continue reading
keeping myself nice
star jumps in the sand Originally uploaded by adelaide writer. On my birthday I did fifty star jumps in the Kangaroo Island sand.
meanwhile in a playground not a million miles away and sometimes frequented by me and my kids…
goanna with bulldozerOriginally uploaded by adelaide writer. This is a heath goanna from Kangaroo Island. Although they do scramble up drains in search of rainwater and sniff around eskies and dinner tables in manners you would consider rather forward in … Continue reading
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meanwhile in a galaxy far, far away…
dinner time Originally uploaded by adelaide writer. …it’s time to get the dinner on.
boomerang and bull's horns
IMG_0236 Originally uploaded by adelaide writer. This is the photo of a wall from which the silouhettes of a boomerang and bull’s horns cannot be removed.
Is it safe to put up bat houses?
Statistically, it’s safer than owning a dog or planting flowers. Flowers attract bees whose stings account for far more human fatality than bats. Just banning bicycles or swimming pools would be hundreds of times more effective in saving lives, but … Continue reading
