Death of a River Guide | Richard Flanagan
As I was born the umbilical cord tangled around my neck and I came into the world both arms flailing, unable to scream and thereby take in the air necessary to begin life outside of the womb, being...
View ArticleMarch 2024 | The Books
For the first week of March, Mr Books and I were at the tail end of our grand driving holiday around Tasmania and parts of Victoria. Needless to say, the adjustment back into real life, work and the...
View ArticleShooting an Elephant (1936) | George Orwell
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the...
View ArticleStories & Shout Outs #70
What’s On My Mind: Boxes, cupboards and storage. I know I’ve been talking about moving house on here for quite some time as a possibility, one day in the future. But that day is now here. At the end of...
View ArticleGarchooka, the Cockatoo | Rex Ingamells #poem
I’m not sure how much I will be able to contribute to next week’s 1937 Club; this moving house gig is wearing me a little bit thin. But I recently stumbled across this neat little poem about cockatoos....
View ArticleThe 1937 Club
Once again, the seasons have rolled around and it’s time to think about another year club with Karen and Simon. Apparently we have been doing these for nine years! I’ve missed some along the way, but I...
View ArticleClassics Club Spin #37
It’s time for another Classics Club spin. This is the Classics Club’s 37th CC Spin…and mine. Yes you read that correctly. I have participated in EVERY single Classics Club spin, along with Jean...
View ArticleO Make Me A Mask | Dylan Thomas #poem
Finding poems first published in 1937 was not as straight forward as one might think. Especially with a poet/writer like Dylan Thomas who had a habit of publishing/performing his work in various...
View ArticleLet me look into that…
Once upon a time there used to be a lovely meme that I would join in occasionally called Wondrous Words Wednesday hosted by Bermuda Onion. It was a great way to deep dive into a word, phrase or saying...
View ArticleA Love Story |Émile Zola
The night light in the blue-tinged glass on the mantleshelf burned behind a book, which cast a shadow across half the bedroom. The quiet glow spreading over the bedside table and the chaise lounge,...
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