Here are snippets from the rest of my life. Generally they are the interesting and happy things.
(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
I’ve spent some of today reorganizing this website with a new ‘theme’ to make it easier to find things, I hope. This means that some of the posts are somewhat out of order, which I might get around to fixing one of these days. The most important change is that I’ve converted a lot of … More A Bit of Reorganization
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
Our two cats, Tristan and Isolde, were born on 1 August last year. Here are a couple of photos taken of them on their first birthday (not that they seemed to notice).
This not one of my usual walks, in fact it is a walk that I had never done before, and am unlikely to do again because it is a bit too long. I mainly did it to draw a circle around all the walks that I normally take, with the exception of those along Scott … More Victoria Street – York Street Walk
