Sunday Blog 233 – 10th May 2026 There is a trigger warning for this post which contains the details and reflections of sexual assault. Please take care when reading or scroll on by if this is not for you. “One day this date won’t mean anything. You won’t even remember it.” So said a friend …
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Hairy, misbehaving women
Sunday Blog 232 – 3 May 2026 A trigger warning applies to this blog as I end it with a disclosure of sexual assault I survived more than two decades ago. Please take care when reading. It’s always illuminating to sup with the youngsters; Millennials, Gen Z’ers. At a recent dinner, the subject of the …
Reflections on war
Sunday Blog 231 – 26th April 2026 November 11, Remembrance Day 2025. I’m at Perth airport on my way to Melbourne for a meeting. The incessant cacophony of plane announcements is interrupted just before 11am. A recorded voice breaks out with The Ode. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we …
On a Garner kick
Sunday Blog 230 – 12th April 2026 “Are you going to read all that?” the young waitress asked as she laid down my cappuccino in a mug in front of me with a flourish. And not a drop spilled. “That’s so impressive!” I caught her accolade deftly, but I was hurtling along on the crest …
Easter Cheer
Sunday Blog 229 – April 5, 2026 While still in Denmark for my writing break last week, someone or something I can no longer recall directed my attention to Rebecca Solnit’s latest book, The Beginning Comes After the End. Notes on a World of Change. The reviewer promised that it was a book of positivity …
Losing my voice
Sunday Blog 228 – 29th March 2026 I could be forgiven for thinking that Mercury retrograde had its claws in me. Only it finished a couple of days before I found myself on Monday in my very reliable car at my local shopping centre, everything packed for a self-guided writing retreat getaway. Well, almost everything. …
New Salt Path revelations…
Sunday Blog 227 – 22nd March 2026 When The Observer article first dropped in July 2025, questioning the truth of the memoir The Salt Path, I was riveted. The article is entitled ‘The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation.’ Let me summarise for you. The Salt Path author’s nom-de-plume is …
No longer the butt of Kitty Flanagan’s jokes
Sunday Blog 226 – 15th March 2026 As the youngest in my family, I am the only Gen-Xer in a sea of Boomers. I take some pride in that. After all, having suffered for all those years being the smallest, weakest and slowest, I am now basking in the smugness of being the youngest and …
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I saw “Wuthering Heights” and I liked it…
Sunday Blog 225 – 8th March 2026 [With apologies for the ear worm I’ve planted] Like many youngest children of large families, I read books when perhaps I was too young to fully comprehend them. Wuthering Heights was one such book. I can’t count the number of times I read it as a teen, stumbling …
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Art, death and all the things
Sunday Blog 224 – 1st March 2026 I’m in Hobart for a week – a few days’ work trip with several more of pleasure tacked on. To be in my 60th year and never having been to Tasmania before seems shameful, but I have a long list of places not yet visited. So now that …