Here are snippets from the rest of my life. Generally they are the interesting and happy things.
(November 2020) In November 2020 Qantas celebrates its centenary. As a tiny celebration of this remarkable event here are photos of all the models I’ve made that are associated with Qantas. This includes Qantas Empire Airways, Australia Asia, Australian, QantasLink and JetStar, and the Australian domestic airline Trans Australia Airlines that was later rebranded Australian … More A hundred years of Qantas
Here is the next issue of iOTA, my little fanzine about the project to research and write the history of fandom in Australia up until 1975. In includes a lot of Lee Harding’s early fannish writing and the first chapter in draft to be written for this history which tells the story of Melbourne fandom … More iOTA 18
(November 2020) I don’t get to read many books these days but here’s one that has captivated me and which I only managed to put down without reading it straight through by sheer force of will. It’s A Pound of Paper, Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter. Doctors seem to be taking a … More A Ramble on Books and Collecting after John Baxter
(A version of this piece originally appeared in ANZAPA Mailing 316, August 2020) My life is remarkably unexciting, sometimes in an interesting way. Take last Tuesday for example. I count it as a good start to the day when I sleep in to 7am, so the day began well. Other days I can be … More Tuesday
Here are the Ditmar winners for 2018, announced last weekend at the national sf convention in Perth and lifted shamelessly from the Australian SF Foundation website. In my line of work these days I have little time to read fiction so I only read one novel and the first few paragraphs of a short story, … More Hurrah for Bruce Gillespie, Lewis Morley and Stephanie Lai
My cv current up until a year or two ago. For interest rather than seeking a job, I’ve got enough work booked up to keep me going for a few more years yet CV
We’ve let monsters into our house. Not only are they monsters of the usual kind, they are model kit eating monsters. Last year I decided that it was about time I came to grips with this new (for me) acrylic paint. Having been put off by the first generation of acrylic modelling paints back in … More A Tale of Two Kittens (and lost parts)
I reckon it might be fifty years or more since I went to the MCG to watch a game of footy. Not that footy isn’t interesting, just that there were other more interesting things to do on the weekend during that time or we weren’t living in Melbourne or the Melbourne Football Club team was … More I go to the footy
Here is a convention report of mine that was published in Beam 15 a little while ago, edited by Nic Farey and Ulrika O’Brien. If you want to read the entire fanzine, and you should, you can find it on efanzines.com at https://efanzines.com/Beam/Beam15.pdf A fair Day Out – Beam 15
As a rule our two cats, Tristan and Isolde, get on well together. They chase each other around the house for fun and cuddle up together on the bed, but there is one thing that causes war to break out between them. It is the old cardboard box behind my computer screen. Tristan believes it … More Cat in a Box
