I wrote in the domed reading room of the state library today. Hard not to be inspired.   I was underneath this quote   Blessed are those who are privileged to read what they like – Dorothy Green. Yep.

some things that are going on… writingwritingwriting Graffiti moon has been named Amazon’s Best YA Book of the Month. Thank you Amazon. You can find me blogging about the book on the Amazon blog, Omnivoracious. If you’re wondering if you might want to read, it but you’re not really sure, there are some lovely reviews [...]

Yesterday, I went swimming for the first time in years. I learnt that bathers are frail things that there needs to be a really slow lane that I like to float but that I don’t have a natural buoyancy that I no longer care what I look like in bathers or what I look like [...]

Excited about seeing Amiina tonight - Sigur Ros’ string section. I think it will be a very beautiful performance.

Went back to 1999 this weekend.  

  e e cummings - how I wish I could write like you (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

The cool red shoes that I loved when I was two.

Happy birthday me.       This bird is very beautiful but that’s not the best thing about him. My niece bought him because proceeds from the sale go to charity. Nice one, Charlie.  (And I’m calling him Robert.) No party is complete without some dinosaur fun on the carpet.          

Went to the aquarium to see the jelly fish water dancing.          

Too hooked, maybe.