Articles from December 2019

Music: Christmas Carols

I love Christmas Carols. I’m not sure what it is about them, whether it is what they represent (family time, Christmas and summer holiday), the music itself or a combination of both, but I love them. My family aren’t quite as enamoured, but luckily for them it is only 2 weeks of the year that…

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Miss Fisher Movie

I’m so excited!! I just saw the first preview for the upcoming Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears movie. I *love* the tv series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. It’s set in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920s and is based on the books by Kerry Greenwood. I actually prefer the tv series to the books…

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Motivational Monday

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good. ~ William Faulkner ~

Burning

Australia has been burning for the last month. We’ve had hundreds of fires and an immense area of the country has burnt (when you consider 85% of the population live within 50km / 31 miles of the coast). To give you an idea, the map below is the status as of today in just one…

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Motivational Monday

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewriting in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. ~ John Steinbeck ~