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I Want my Book Back!
By Michael
Nov 17, 2020
I missed the Sydney launch of my first book.  I had pneumonia, and I couldn’t lift my head off the pillow.  My pillow was in Woodend, Australia. But what I’m eternally gratef
Thirty years to the day
By Michael
Jul 24, 2020
It’s thirty years today since I was first published, in The Age, Melbourne.  It felt totally tectonic.  I was convinced that my life would never be the same from that moment on
Frost in Feb?
By Michael
Feb 21, 2017
Yep.  This morning the windscreen was iced over – the wipers frozen into immobility. It was the second frost this February – the last being last Wednesday, which happened also

Thirty years to the day
By Michael
Jul 24, 2020

It’s thirty years today since I was first published, in The Age, Melbourne.  It felt totally tectonic.  I was convinced that my life would never be the same from that moment on.  And it turns out ...

Frost in Feb?
By Michael
Feb 21, 2017

Yep.  This morning the windscreen was iced over – the wipers frozen into immobility. It was the second frost this February – the last being last Wednesday, which happened also to be a total fire ...

...And the Living is Easy
By Michael
Feb 9, 2017

While much of the country has been sweltering, we down south in Victoria have been enjoying the most perfect summer. We’ve had regular rains, and no days over 40C.  The countryside around me is sti ...

The Cool Conundrum
By Michael
Feb 26, 2015

This post was published on the excellent on-line mag The Planthunter a couple of days ago (hence a few pics that regular readers of this blog will remember from earlier posts).  There’s no other p ...

House Love: The Seduction and Destruction
By Michael
Feb 10, 2015

I’m currently re-listening to an audiobook of a very light-weight novel about a late-teen in the mid 1950’s who’s family owns a massive house dating back to Medieval times, with a huge extension ...