July 18, 2024
July 19th, 2024 Silence Broken!
Tan-tan-tara! She lives! Sorry to have been so silent forso long. Mortifying. It’s the longest time between posts I’ve ever been guilty of. I’m knuckling […]
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A Quick Word
Greetings! Sadly, the delicious 40th anniversary of Possum Magic is now over. But this year, 2024, as if the good news can’t tumble into the […]
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600 Writers for the Voice
September 21st 2023 Hello, everyone, particularly my fellow citizens, Every so often I get a feeling in my head that I’m going to have a […]
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40 Years Later…
Hhhhello! Yes, I’m shivering. I’m the first to extol the virtues of living in Adelaide, a divinely easy city to be in, unless it’s deep […]
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Oh, no! I forgot…
Same day: Feb 6th ’23 Hello, yet again. This is an incredibly speedy return from my last update. It must be a record. Anyway, people […]
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Who wants to know?
February 6th 2023 Hello, once again! Oh, oh, oh, such a long silence. Sorry. No excuse, just bone idle. In case you thought I’d ceased […]
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News in June
Well, hello again, many months later! lt’s winter with a vengeance. We have been battered by the most violent, howling winds imaginable for this part […]
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Alive and Lazy
Hi, yet again! A schoolgirl has done a wonderful thing! Her name is Evelyn. She sent me five very interesting questions which I answered on […]
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Old me, new book
Dear world, my beach before a spectacular storm in late October 20201—and a climate change rant below… As I write, the United Nations climate change […]
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Still alive, still writing
Hello, once more! Before I start, I’d like to alert you to a few videos of speeches and readings of individual books. I had to […]
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Ages and Ages
Hello again! The only people who read websites like this (so I’m told) are librarians, teachers and students of children’s literature, but hey— librarians, teachers, […]
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Some year! Christmas New Year 2020/2021
I’m imagining that at this moment in the world’s history every Facebook entry, every blog, card, tweet, diary, letter, journal, instagram, email and so on, […]
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