A balmy summers evening in Australia, children are in bed and I am luxuriating enveloped in quietness in the company of a good read when….THUMP, CLUMP, CLUMP, CLUMP…oh no! There is an elephant tap dancing on our roof in steel […]
It is a universal fact that chocolate makes the world go round! Having been prepared to sacrifice my waistline in the quest for veracity I have tasked myself to prove this fact in a number of countries and have come […]
As you may have guessed from my earlier words, of all the cities I have visited in Indonesia, Yogyakarta is the one that resonates most strongly for me. Having friends over from Australia was motivation to take the Snail for […]
Balikpapan like many Indonesian towns has a number of orphanages. I know of 5 and I am pretty sure there are probably more. Labelled as ‘orphans’ many children within these institutions do in fact have a family, however they have […]
Canberra City to Holder 2 hours..Ummm??? Continuing… After a great hot chocolate and all too large piece of homemade slice at a local café https://www.facebook.com/TheOldHumeCafe/info where we also caught up on the latest local news, we were refreshed enough to […]
I had an appointment with a book buyer in Canberra! So why were we in Gunning? At less than 10 degrees Celsius I can see the Snail might need a jumper for this visit. As my earliest memories equate […]
A photo captures an embarrassing moment during a book reading at Pelican Flats Public School when the children noticed the sculptured snail accompanying me had moved and left snail trail on the carpet! You will notice the look of mortification […]
In a word, ‘hectic’ would be an understatement of the last couple of weeks as I undertook two book launches on two separate and diverse continents. Having never been part of organizing a book launch there was a bit to […]
Have decided that having a book published is very much like pregnancy. There is the initial excitement of conception, then a long gestation where changes seem to be noticeable only to the mother and possibly very close friends. At an […]
Two thousand and fourteen, the Year of the Horse, is shaping up to be an exciting year. It would appear it has been 10 years since my last passport was issued and a new one was in order. I am […]