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2024 Week 36: The many faces of Ishmael.

Don’t Call Me Ishmael has been my most commercially successful book selling over 100,000 copies in Aust/NZ and being published in another seven countries including Germany where it has been a best seller and used as a school text. (The … Continue reading →

2024 Week 35: Father days.

In honour of Father’s Day just passed I’m rebloging (again) something I wrote for my father when he died. It was included in the funeral booklet. Because my father worked away from home all of my childhood and into my … Continue reading →

2024 Week 34: Bananas, bookings, books and brekkie.

I had a rare school visit this week speaking to the Year 8 girls at Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane who had read my book DON’T CALL ME ISHMAEL. The students were lovely and the talk was fun. I actually … Continue reading →

2024 Week 33: Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you (except if you come from Melbourne).

Last week our awesome daughter Meg was up from Melbourne for some Wilderness Society work meetings. She stayed with us along with our two gorgeous, full of energy, non-stop grandkids. And of course after weeks and weeks of blue skies, … Continue reading →

2024 Week 32: Five Rings to rule them all …

Well not surprisingly I’ve got stratchy eyes from watching too much late night, early morning OLYMPICS. I know many people don’t like sport or just don’t understand the appeal. I’m really glad I’m not one of those people. I think … Continue reading →

2024 Week 31: Hitting the books.

After about a month’s gap I have just posted Book #12 in my modest “24 in 24” Reading Challenge. Since it’s already August you can see that I’m well behind where I should be at this point in the year. … Continue reading →

2024 Week 30: You’ve got (more) mail.

I mentioned in a recent post that I’d had surprising emails from a German school in Mexico and a French school in Vanuatu. In both cases their students were reading Don’t Call Me Ishmael. Since then I’ve had more writing … Continue reading →

2024 Week 29: And the winner is …

Once again I’m a little bit late with the weekly blog and my excuse this time is that we’ve been away spending a few days in … SYDNEY! The good news is that we had a lovely time with beautiful … Continue reading →

2024 Week 28: Going (back to) where the weather suits my clothes.

Back home from a chilly Melbourne to a much more mild and user-friendly Brissie winter. We had a lovely time down south including a great night out at the spectaclar LIGHTSCAPE in the Royal Botoanical Gardens. On the writing front … Continue reading →

2024 Week 27: In which three men walk into a bar but I’m not sure why or who they are or what happens next because I wasn’t one of them and I’m terrible at remembering jokes. Sorry.

While I’m down in Melbourne with not much time on my hands I thought I’d revisit and update a post I did some time ago about my pathetic joke-telling ability. The cartoons included are very early ones from my talented … Continue reading →