You can have anything you want so long as it has spam with it and I’ve had enough to sink a battleship. I’ve been getting all sorts of spam on the articles, the images and even on the products so I started a war. Saturday was the first offence when ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Today is the Australia Day holiday, we celebrate on the 26th of January but if it falls on a weekend we then get a day off to turn it into a long weekend. We’re good at that sort of stuff. Australia Day celebrates the day when white men hit the ...
I’m going to rush through this at the speed of light today, I have nothing really to say except Back Up Your Computer! I’m not saying I’ve lost anything but it’s on the cards that I have. My computer doesn’t like our hot weather and it seems to shut itself ...
Well, it’s been an interesting start to the new year and one I’m sure many people would really have liked to not happen. There are currently bushfires in Tasmania, some people escaped to the beach and were brought off to safety in boats but there are around 100 people still ...
Yes, they can co-exist but you do have to take care. I was really struggling with what to write for today’s article and I’ve currently got five minutes before I like to publish so it was really good to read Reading Upside Down’s article today and find it resonated enough to ...
Welcome to another edition of Mondayitis, it’s not actually Mondayitis today as I’m having a little break from it today. I hope my reasons are good enough. Sharp eyed viewers will have noticed some changes in the categories on the right hand side. I’ve delisted all the books as they’re ...
I’ve been watching a lot of information, photos and videos about Hurricane Sandy over the past few days, I’m finding it hard to believe the severity of the whole event, I’ve been pretty sheltered here and have only seen the odd flood only coming up to my ankles so to ...
It just seems wrong to be contemplating writing a trivial Mondayitis when Hurricane Sandy is menacing parts of America. It feels so wrong it’s actually taken me half an hour to write this short piece whereas yesterday’s article only took 40 minutes. I have family and friends there, I’m hoping ...
Today is a day for things, just things. I’m going to ruminate all over the place with nothing really major in mind except for the first one. Jill Meagher My heart goes out to her family, friends and co-workers. This has been a tough time for them and will continue ...
As my regular readers would know I made the decision to give up books, no, not for Lent. I will still be reading and blogging, probably even selling the odd one or two on eBay; the part-work magazines will stay with me for the forseeable future as I don’t want ...
I think it’s Tuesday, I could be wrong as I admit to being rather confused at present. I managed to send the book to the wrong person yesterday and I’m in the middle of trying to sort it out and hoping the incorrect recipient will be nice enough to send ...
You know those days when you have no idea what day it is and then when you’re told you just can’t find anything to write about? Well, I’m having one of those days. All last night I thought today was Squid Ink day and that continued till about 9 this ...
There are some things are easy to fake. I heard a story about the Bee Gees when they first got started and while I don’t know if it’s true or not it illustrates things perfectly. You need to sell a certain number of records in order to appear in the ...
I haven’t managed to twist anyone’s arms for Mondayitis today and there’s a new player on the Australian secondhand books market making things much harder for everyone so I’ve decided a diatribe/rant is in order. It’s been getting increasingly harder to sell books in Australia. Thanks to the UPU we ...
It’s been an interesting week and I don’t want to repeat it. Last week I had a virus and I suspect it’s contributed to my back problems and my tooth problems. I’m in the middle of seeing my lovely, friendly physio and having the back fixed while today I see ...