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 …
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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 …
Analogue writing
Sunday Blog 223 – 22 Feb 2026 This is my love note to handwriting. At some point in my school life, possibly in primary school, I developed a writer’s bump on my right hand. As someone who can be spatially challenged, I have by now an almost unconscious habit of touching my right hand to …
Letting Life Be As It Is
Sunday Blog 222 – 15th Feb 2026 I had let it go. The Sunday Blog. Because this weekend has been consumed with a creative writing assignment I thought was due a week later than it was. Because there’s the day job and travel and community volunteering and all the things. But here I am, the …
Octopus legs and personal growth
Sunday Blog 221 – 8th Feb 2026 It’s definitely too early to be making such heady claims, but I think my smart watch has created the personality revolution that I hoped I was paying for. Sure, I may have jabbed inexpertly at the preferences and set my goals a little low. It tells me every …
The Wonder of Weak Ties
Sunday Blog 220 – 1st February 2026 Last night I had the joy of attending a private musical evening with the sublime Alexia Parenzee singing. She will be touring more over 2026, so 10/10 I would recommend you sign up for updates on when and where and get along. Before the music began, another gem …