The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse
This is the most delightful book by Charlie Mackesy (2019 Penguin Random House), written he says ‘for everyone, whether you are eighty or eight’. The hard covered book is finely ...
Writing in the Cracks
I have been writing in the cracks, editing my middle fiction story each day. I manage two pages when I am summoned. We have been watching a small calf that has somehow been left behind when all ...
My Year with Words
At the end of 2018 I set myself a challenge and chose some words to inspire me…the words were: Be Brave…take some risks. So I did. I wrote quite a few longer stories for kids to ...
Group hugs
We live 45kms from the nearest town and although we relish the isolation, peace and quiet, sometimes contact is needed. As we get to end of a third year of drought and stress and worry, I feel a ...
My Drought Diary
It’s Day 1085…though you really do not want to count. We are nearly at the end of our third year and moving into a very hot summer again. And no rain since March this year. We have ...
Bust the Dust
Today, Friday 13th December at 1pm. kids from all over the State will be trying to bust the dust. They have been perfecting their moves and will gather to perform rain dances. It was initiated by ...
Sweet !
Fires have been raging all along the north coast of NSW, from Taree to Coffs Harbour and beyond. Wild life have been severely impacted, many properties burnt out and some lives have been lost. ...
Ladies Day Out
Today I dodged the jobs on the farm and had a ladies day out…in one of my favourite places, Haydon Hall in Murrurundi. It was presented as part of a Rural Resilience programme run by the ...
Creative Writing Awards or CWA.
I belong to an online creative writing group called Scribbles. For the second year, they ran a writing competition and I entered a story for children as well as a Picture Book manuscript. My ...