It's surprising what you find when you are looking for something else

I was searching for my Tax File Number when I came across this poem I had written for my eldest Granddaughter Kate, when she was about four years old.

MY LITTLE KITTEN
I had a little kitten,
Titptoes was her name.
And when I did my knitting
She thought it was a game.

I was trying to knit a jumper
For my darling little Kate
When the kitten...

A pair of Willy Wagtails (members of the fly-catcher family) are once again nesting on the frame of my Mother's washing line!

If she needs to go out and water her pot plants then she has to put her sun hat on as they dive bomb her

They have nested there before but never this late in the year. It's quite sad to watch the parents sitting in the hot summer sun upon the nest. Now and again, they will quickly have a dip in one of the bowls of water we have put out...

Tuesday 7th September 2010

Well I thought I would have a lie in this morning but was awake with the birds again. So I caught the usual tram into the city to run an errand for my son. Find AC/DC Lane & take lots of photos which I dutifully did!

I wrote up a few post cards, there had been so little time during the week. It took quite a while to find the Post Office as it was hiding behind a very old building with ‘GPO’ engraved on the old façade!
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My first session today was ‘The Lure Of A Good Map’ and on the panel were Ian Irvine, D.Cornish and Russell Kirkpatrick. I myself like books with maps in, so found this very relevant. It was a great discussion on ‘knowing where you are, the topography and how the weather plays a role in ‘your world’.

Later I went to ‘Losing The Plot: Plotting in Advance vs. Writing As You Go’. Stephen Dedman, Lezil Robyn and John Scalzi, the Panel, all discussed their different ways of plotting....

The first panel was ‘The Series Question: Big Books Chopped Up or Small Books Glued Together’. On the panel were David Cornish, Kate Forsyth, Ian Irvine & Lara Morgan. There were of course many reasons for & against this & of course, the publishers having much to do with it.

At midday, I dashed off to get Trudi Canavan’s signature on my copy of ‘Priestess of the White’. She kindly signed my copy & someone obligingly took a photograph of us.

Took...