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Daily Prompt: Simply Irresistible

When we travelled in France, we did our best always to stay with Jean Luc Valadeau in his truly beautiful B&B, Le Clair de la Plume, in Grignan. It is no longer a B&B, but a world-class hotel with restaurant; and Stringer and I remained happy to have been there, joyfully, in its less grand […]

“Jobs for Australians”

I watched Aunty’s flagship news magazine last night. I don’t, always – it so often wants to show me things that I don’t want to see. I mean, really don’t want to see: programmes about genocide, and the mistreatment of … Continuereading→

An open letter …

… to Australian women feature writers|journalists You’re lucky, of course – lucky to be around in these times of social networking clients of one kind or another … No: I mean, lucky that you’re young enough to’ve grown up with … Continuereading→

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected

Filed under: photos, Sydney Tagged: postaday

My first guest

I lied when I said there’d be no more repeat appearances of material. Sorry! I realised I had to do the same thing with my Guest Blogs page: remove it as a Page, repeat it as a Post and see … Continuereading→

Most recent press interview

The West Australian, Tuesday 19th November ’14: posted on the one month anniversary of the commencement of this blogsite. Bear with me, band of followers: it can only get better.:-)Filed under: interview Tagged: writing

Apologies, all …

In the config. learning process, I’ve found how (with Support’s help, what else?), when I short write essays, to have them group themselves under the Bit Essays menu item without having to keep pasting them there in a long, continuous … Continuereading→

A moment out of time

“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” —Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train doesn’t Stop Here any more I stood at the door to my little balcony … Continuereading→

The perils of a pliable persona

Many years ago, I found with a kind of faint bewilderment that my close friends, who were not legion, had arrived at the position of having catalogued me – you might say ‘pigeon-holed’ – as Grumpy. Don’t get me wrong: … Continuereading→

Relationships

The houses of our lives are built on foundations of the relationships they contain. There’s no denying it: without the various relationships we maintain, our houses would collapse and we’d be nothing. (Mostly, it doesn’t pay to study them too … Continuereading→