The Hodgepodge, a writer’s journal
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Inspo Monday
My insta feed is all about Slow Fashion October – a movement that challenges the idea of fast fashion of the kind produced by stores such as Supre, Zara and H&M. Slow movements aren’t new – the slow food movement was one of the first which had an enormous impact on the industry and raised ...
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A mini-review – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
There are books whose voice or voices you begin to miss as soon as you reach the end and for me, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders was one of those books. It is just such an original book and the audio version, which I’d been listening to, is impeccably produced with a large ...
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Inspo Monday on a Tuesday
We were woken up this morning around 5.00 am by something knocking around in our storeroom. Well, not exactly in the storeroom, but trying hard to get into the wall cavity. A possum. We complained about it for a while and then the Accountant got up and banged at the walls, hoping to put it ...
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Monday Inspo
Everyone needs inspiration on a Monday! I woke up this morning from a dream in which I had to travel across an unfamiliar city from a Picasso exhibition in order to see a Burne-Jones exhibition. Not a bad dream – except that it was all tied up with getting a cab, rather than seeing the ...
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Inspo Monday
My Monday started at 2.oo am when something – someone? – rapped on some glass – a window? the backdoor? – and woke me up. I asked The Accountant if he had heard anything but given that he didn’t even hear me ask the question, it seemed unlikely he had heard the rap rap rapping. ...
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The months whizzing by
I had my first photoshop lesson this afternoon. This is a photo I took at Healesville Sanctuary back in April or May. I was captivated by the wood swallows – such beautiful little birds. Actually, I’m captivated by Healesville Sanctuary! I was quite envious when Keith took our last lot of couchsurfers there without me. ...
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Continuum 14
Unfortunately this year I double-booked and we were hosting couchsurfers on the Queen’s birthday weekend when Continuum is always held. I don’t really know how I managed to do that! I did go into the city on both the Sunday and the Monday, regardless and heard a few sessions but it was not the usually ...
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Writer’s Block, Anxiety and Beyond
I was asked by a colleague to write something about writer’s block for our students but I can’t call myself an expert on writer’s block as I can’t remember a time when I’ve actually suffered from it. I suffer from procrastination, an inability to prioritise my writing, and I’ve certainly done my share of staring ...
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Poetry
Before I left Melbourne for a month in Brisbane, I vowed to learn seven poems by heart – this would easy, I thought, because I’d be walking by myself and it would give those walks a focus. What I should have done was to choose the poems and copy them before I left home. Then ...
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Keeping records…
There are a bewildering number of ways of record-keeping these days. I look at Insta every morning to see people’s beautiful hand-made knits and keep up with the sewing world. I check Facebook for events and the doings of my family and friends. There’s email, of course. I keep a journal. My current project demands ...