Putting The Mock On Another grand old Aussie expression, meaning to jinx something or someone. It seems to be a variation on the slightly mo...

True Spring According to my trusty Aboriginal calendar , True Spring is upon us, and will last until the beginning of November. "Warm, ...

Writing My Way In I am writing. No, honestly, I am! My current work-in-progress is evolving in a new way; I've never approached a book l...

Being a Bulldog "You need to be strong to be a Bullies supporter," my mother-in-law says, and she should know; she's been a st...

Written on the Landscape This is just the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. An artist called Rhett Dashwood has created an alpha...

We Were Wrong (Again) Okay, so I mixed up James Freud's rock'n'roll memoir I Am The Voice Left From Drinking with Mark Seymour...

Desperately Seeking... Something? I'm sure I read reviews a little while ago (within the last couple of years?) of a book about a girl w...

Library Book Sale Time Again For Evie I Don't Want To Go To The Hospital! Tony Ross Because we love the Little Princess, and Evie is ph...

The Lark and the Owl Alice can't fall asleep. She is still wide awake at ten o'clock, looking at books, drawing, making light shows ...

Why Freo Are Terrible Yes, my boys beat them at the weekend (and so they should have, in fact we should have buried them, but didn't, w...

Create Your Own YA Cover (Via the Onions ) 1 - Go to "Fake Name Generator" or click http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ The name tha...

Rollergirl and Reading Rocks Alice got rollerblades for her birthday. They hardly came off her feet for forty-eight hours. Initially unstead...

My Brush With Fame Lucky me had the privilege of attending the opening night of the Melbourne International Film Festival on Friday (thanks...

The Vanished Wilderness of Childhood "Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked p...

Weather Tragic Now that I've officially outed myself as a meteorological obsessive, I may as well talk about the seasons again. Accordin...