I never liked sci-fi. We have a whole bookshelf full of it (Mike’s) but I never could get through any of the books in there. I think the problem is mainly that sci-fi tends to be really badly written. I have a degree in writing: I don’t like reading badly written stuff! In fairness, fantasy [...]
The show must go on
This article can’t be true, can it? I just laughed out loud. Sunday night Mike’s band was meant to play a gig at the Brisbane Jazz Club, which is a really nice little venue right on the river at Kangaroo Point. I love the jazz club. It’s a great place to chill out and listen [...]
Random discoveries
So I have discovered (Mike discovered it actually, and I pooh-poohed it until I tried it myself and realised he was right) that there is no need to use commercial deodorant. Sorry, TMI, but in the last year it’s struck me that I seem to end up stinking a bit even when I do use [...]
Bread making
Because there was no bread to be had yesterday, I bought wholemeal flour and determined I would make my own. it should be noted that I’ve never been able to make bread before: even when I had a bread machine, it always turned out hard as a rock on the outside, heavy and doughy in [...]
And it continues
The devastation here is just horrific. I have never seen anything like it. Brisbane is just being destroyed, with the main peak coming at 4AM tomorrow… 7 hours from now. But we are blessed, here in our little house, because despite being somewhat isolated here — all roads to anywhere are cut by water — [...]
Water weary
I am wearied of water. It has been raining now for weeks on end. Is it months yet? Perhaps. The monsoon shows no sign of ceasing. Summer never came to Queensland this year. The mangoes never ripened. The floods harassing Queensland continue. Even while the center of QLD [...]
A new year and a banana tree
So as mentioned, I’m not really one for New Year’s resolutions. Things like “eat better, exercise more, drink more water, go to bed at a reasonable hour” all go without saying, so let’s not even go there. And the really important ones are too important to be put here for public consumption. But there are [...]
Flood, cont.
Well i never did finish our Christmas tale because I was slow in uploading photos. Anyway, I have uploaded them now and for anyone who is interested… here are some photos of the flood that is devestating Queensland right now. We were in Gladstone, which was a little haven of virtual untouched-ness, but ringed around [...]
New Year
It’s always interesting when a new year starts. I usually view it with a feeling of hope, new beginnings. While I’m not much of a resolution maker type of person, I still think of all the things that I want to do, want to change, want to make better. I usually feel really optimistic at [...]
Flood
Well, it has been an interesting Christmas. I’m writing on an annoyingly tiny E-PC (SO annoying to type on!) using the Virgin Mobile dongle that Kifa so kindly loaned me… hoping I’m not using too much of his bandwidth! We left last Friday to drive up to Gladstone, [...]
