I’ve written about The Australian Discworld Convention before. By now many people know that we refer to it as Nullus Anxietas followed by a number. In 2026 that number is 10, or in Roman numerals, X. I’ve been to all of them, unless you count Unseen University Convivium in 2012 ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Book Fair Australia is a multigenre literary festival. Founded in 2022 in Sydney, Australia by Ivana Truglio. It is staffed by volunteers, and what wonderful volunteers they are. This will be my third BFA. The first three years it was held in Sydney, and having proven that their model works ...
Earlier this year I had the thought that maybe I should get the Shingles Vaccine. It’s called Shingrix and that’s not really helping my brain. I really regret not getting the Shingles Vax, truly. It is the pits. Going on for four weeks and I’ve done so little. I am ...
I’m doing too much. I know I’m doing too much because there are some things that don’t get done. One of them is writing for my blog. There have been far too many times over recent weeks when I haven’t managed to find time to write here. I’ve also not ...
Today’s article has been written by Golda. I met Golda fairly recently, but feel I’ve known her since forever. We were walking down the street and she revealed how she’d been blind for a time. She was walking normally without any additions for the blind such as a white cane, ...
Back in 2011 I pondered a dilemma. In that article I’d recently found out something unsavoury about a favourite childhood author. I was pondering whether to keep the book by this author listed on my website or get rid of it. Would I be able to sell it to somebody ...
Welcome to the New Year! At the end of 2023 I wrote an article talking about what I planned to do in the future. I didn’t talk much about the past. While I’d like to do that again, I want to talk about this year in relation to some of ...
I was going to write words about Eye of the Beholder & Other Tales by Karen J. Carlisle, but I’ve got a couple of things in my mind so I’m going to do a ramble unadulterated by any planning and accompanied by some cello music by The Punk Cellist. I’m ...
Collecting is a fabulous hobby. The problem is when you die you have no control over who gets what…unless you put it in your will. Some collections can be worth a lot and others are worth peanuts. Last year I cleaned out my in-laws house. It was full of collections. ...
This is a repeat of what happened last year, but with some differences. Last year I drove by myself to Sydney to attend the Book Fair Australia and I had the best time. Last year I wandered through the entire hall and looked at, or spoke to, every single stall ...
I was sent a link to a TikTok. I don’t have a TikTok account but I have been able to view this link so here’s a link to it. You can watch it yourself if you want to do so. It’s a video of a tweet on x.com. This one ...
I’ve been home for a couple of days and I’m still very tired. I’m not sure if it’s hormones, my body hating me, or just overdoing it at BendiCon on Sunday. But I’m very tired and I had an awesome time. The reason I was at BendiCon is because the ...
I’m sure you’ve all heard of Henry Lawson. He’s a well known Australian writer and bush poet. Really, there’s no need for me to talk about him more than that. But I was listening to the radio tonight and the guest of the hour was Michelle Scott Tucker. She is ...
Booktopia is the largest online bookseller in Australia. My research shows that it pre-dates Amazon selling in Australia and its sales focus on one thing, books. Amazon sells anything and everything but Booktopia only sells books. If you’re selling only one type of item online you only have to worry ...
In trying to decide what to write about tonight I lit on The Bedside Milligan by Spike Milligan. But he is problematic, as better writers than I have written many more words about him. You can see two books on this link and I’d not want to add more words ...