There’s no point stockpiling and taking advantage of autumn’s abundance if you’re not laying down the groundwork for next season: For the record: today I planted shallots, broccoli, beets and snow peas. (This is less about writing an informative blog post than it is about reminding me what I planted.) Having pulled up all the [...]
Tagged abundanceMy hard heart — Helen Garner This book of short fiction is another of my Library discoveries: I’ve heard Helen Garner’s name a lot — she’s pretty big in Australian literature — so I grabbed this book of short fiction to gain a taste of her work. It’s pretty awesome; the stories focus on the [...]
Tagged reading timeI tried something new — something hard and sweaty — grumbled about it a lot, and then mysteriously found myself excited and into it. I took up running a couple of years ago and it was hard. Freaking shitnuts, it was hard. Hard and sometimes ouchy, but I kept wanting it. After a long, stubborn [...]
Tagged banging onGuards! Guards! and Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett Sweet sauerkraut stockings I like Mr Pratchett’s writing. After a fairly long-term dalliance with the audiobooks of the Discworld series (as read by the totes awesome Tony Robinson), I got into reading the books proper comparatively late in life. I have a clear memory of a [...]
Tagged reading timeToday is Sunday and I’m moving slowly and small-ly. Partly because of… …who has been living with us this week. A hairy brown peanut of cuddles and wags. But it hasn’t been all peaches and farts around here: on Wednesday night we were treated to three renditions plus encore of her rarely-heard HOWCK-SPLAT solo concerto [...]
Tagged awesome, banging onThe Volcano Lover: A Romance – Susan Sontag See, here’s why I love libraries. Book shops you gots to spend coin, so you get a bit risk-averse and you’re more likely to go with what you know. Second hand book shops, less so (less coin, so less risk) so that’s a bit better. Libraries: zilch. [...]
Tagged reading timeI’m roaring through books like you wouldn’t believe, suckin’ down sentences like an arm through a sleeve; don’t miss a word or chapter, don’t to the end skip, jump back Loretta, I gots pages to flip. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis I finished American Pyschoa while back and it was so great it [...]
Tagged reading timeIt’s my Mumini’s birthday today. I tried to take photos of the skirt I made to show off to her, but frankly she deserves better. Let’s talk life skillz. What she gave me: Knitting. Man, that first scarf: she showed me how to cast on, and then I would work a row of K1, P1 [...]
Tagged awesomeThree more excellent reads for you to think about: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson More than anything in the world right now I want to go bushwalking. I have a fruity French dessert cooling on the bench; a cup of tea beside me; an awesome job [...]
Tagged reading timeThere are two piles of books on my bookshelf — actually, if I was going for strict realism, I would have to mention that these two piles are not alone, that the shelves are crammed full of the damn things, but for the purposes of this discussion, I want to point out that it is [...]
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