Fake It ’til You Make It

Emergency: need cheesecake now. Have you had this one? Here’s what you do. Take a digestive cookie (graham cracker if that’s what you prefer), spread with a thick layer of cream cheese (thick enough to leave decent teeth-marks), cover that with...

Spring Clean

I’ve done it. I’ve just sent my current work-in-progress (WIP) to my agent to review. After that, off it goes to the publisher by the end of this month to sucessfully meet the stipulated “February 2013” deadline. Phew! Just by the skin of my...

Sweet Little Something

An end of week ritual – a wordless post, a personal photograph that captures a moment to be savoured, relished and preserved for looking back on. One photograph from Hannah, in the Southern Hemisphere and one from Ria, in the Northern Hemisphere. Feel free to...

Wherein There is Culture

So, I love this word, culture, for several reasons. I have a degree in anthropology–reason number one. But I also love culture because it means stories. You can’t talk about a person’s or a country’s culture without getting into a nice mess of...

Solitude

Or should that be Sydney-tude. Because, frankly, I’m not exactly alone. Well, inspired by your post from last week about Solitude and getting away from home and supported by a generous husband, who threw all his Hilton hotel points my way, I am writing to you...