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The Tortoise and la mère

The ‘la mère’ part of the title will be revealed in due course, but first let me tell you about the little guy leaning precariously into my pond for a drink. Just for the record, he’s a tortoise, not a turtle. Tortoises are land animals. Instead of flippers, they have  stumpy little feet with claws, […]

My new addiction – the Jacquie Lawson Circus!

I make no apologies – I’m well and truly in holiday mode, and playing games is very much a part of the equation for me. I play Final Fantasy xiv, of course, and Spider Solitaire, but my latest craze is the Balloon Pop game that’s part of the Jacquie Lawson Circus. Rather than trying to […]

Walking the tightrope between Work and Writing

My latest article on Indies Unlimited just went live. This is a snippet from the beginning : ‘I have always admired people who can write, hold down a job, care for children, do marketing and wield a vacuum cleaner while apparently staying sane and cheerful. Sadly, I’m not one of them. I may be female, […]

Recipe – Very Low Carb Hazelnut Cake

My experiments yesterday were a success! The picture is of Hazelnut Cake Mark II, which is now ready for Christmas Eve. The cake contains neither sugar, nor flour, but I discovered I needed to dust the greased cake pan with a tiny bit of flour to stop the cake from sticking. I did try using […]

Update on Sandy Hook donations

If you read my post here, you’ll know I wanted to put my books up for free in the hope that people who downloaded them would send a small donation to the community of Sandy Hook. Unfortunately, none of that is going to happen any time soon. After posting that article I did some research […]

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Boring pictures from a lazy blogger

Apologies for being so slack lately. I have had an attack of domestic 20/20 vision…and what I saw was not pretty. I have people coming over for Christmas Eve dinner, and suddenly the dirty windows, clutter, dust, muddy paw prints, dust bunnies etc etc etc. sent me into a panic of cleaning. Sadly, the more […]

Newtown-Sandy Hook Anniversary

A post by Kenneth W. Cain reminded me that it’s been almost a year since the Sandy Hook massacre. At the time, I thought the face of that traumatised child would be etched in my memory forever. I promised not to forget. I did forget though, and I feel ashamed that the small distractions of […]

Bushfire danger – burning off on high wind days

Despite countless examples of bushfires triggered by controlled burns gone wrong – set by professionals, mind you – some dick donkey is burning off today. I can see the smoke rising up through the trees across the valley from my house. It’s not hot, yet, but there’s a strong north-easterly blowing, and wind is the […]

Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013.

We knew it was coming, and I suspect Mandela himself would have preferred not to be kept alive for so long through the miracle of modern medicine, but now that he is truly gone, I cherish every day he spent on this earth. Nelson Mandela was the symbol of hope, not just for his own […]