Category Life

The importance of a relaxed groom

I went to an excellent, cheap yoga class in Manly Community Centre last night. I like going to yoga classes in drafty community centres rather than in swish expensive ones with tinkling fountains and up lighters. This is not (just) because I am a tight wad. It is because they are usually run by eccentric […]

Dee Why Sealife

Living in funny old Dee Why has had its moments. I’ve been lucky enough to capture some photos of the wildlife here include one day after a storm and a number of strange jellyfish and other creatures were washed up onto the beach. There were hundreds of blue stingers or blue bottles at the hide […]

Home Sweat Home

I went to a Bikram Yoga class this week. This is the famous and controversial school of yoga, called McYoga by some, that has swept the globe. It involves doing yoga in a hot room. In a really hot room. The room I lay in, waiting for the class, to start was 40 degrees C […]

A rose by any other title…

I’ve been playing with the Lulu title tester. Type in the title of your book to be and the tester will calculate the percentage chance you have of your tome being a best seller. That is if you finish writing it, get accepted by an agent, get it accepted by a publisher… Anyway, the first […]

More pillow talk

The Norwegian has informed me of another bit of sleeping/talk/nonsense I came out with last night. I was well on the way to sleep and he came in and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I jumped and said in a bitter and accusatory tone, ‘I thought it was an umbrella.’ This made sense. […]