Odour Of Abbott by Jennifer Ellem

Odour of Abbott A wanna be priest called Abbott Was found to be a little too rabid His visions of glory were dimmed By the churches care for those who had sinned So he left in huff Saying enough of this stuff And into the world he spinned He was trained in the law But found …

History – Written by the winners or just those with friends in the RIGHT place?

The old saying of history being written by the winners has added another notch to its belt with the PM’s Top History Award being awarded to Mr Colebatch for ‘Australia’s Secret War: How Unions Sabotaged our troops in WWII‘. Mr Hal Colebatch, prominent right-wing extremist, and the publishing house of Quadrant have managed to put …

Zombie Apocalypse or Flu?

Well it’s a fun packed weekend all round here in the land of Oz.  Apart from the fact that our PM has seen fit to ‘loose the dogs of war’ without actually explaining what the threat to Australia is to anyone there have been other, and to my mind, more important issues that came to …

Monday With Mary Shelly

One of my favourite writers in the field of the Gothic Fiction,Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later known as Mary Shelley was born this August in 1797.  I had planned to do this piece on the 30th as that would have been the anniversary of her birth but felt it would not fit well with the Weekend Funny Challenge. As …

The Blackguard is Official

Originally posted on Ben Garrido's Author Page:
My mother, Kathy Garrido, holds the first ever physical copy of The Blackguard. Eleven years, thousands of hours and enough time grimacing at mutilated notebooks to scare off an entire congregation of nice old ladies. The Blackguard, my first novel, that monster collection of revisions and one-more-things…

I’m Back

Yes I’m back and not just in the corporeal sense either.  I’ve been absent this past week due to a strange confluence of events. My husband and I managed to have a house guest [his father], both of us sick AND the offer of 3 paid freelance writing jobs for me ME all at once. …

Memory Lane

Where to start, that always seems to be the question.  I don’t want to approach this in the Dickensian style of ‘I was born’ because I’m not trying to write a book merely go back and look at a few key moments and how little steps led to a big fall.  There are, however, probably …

Choices Made & Prices Paid

As I said in a previous post, I have been pondering the concept of perseverance recently and despite my best efforts to live in the present I have found myself thinking, more and more, on the past and the roads I’ve traveled this last decade. It is human nature I guess, the need to play Monday …

Wondering this Wednesday

I’ve been pondering the concept of perseverance recently and how it applies not just to large dreams and ideas but also to the simple concept of living each day.  I think at times it takes more fortitude to continue with your life each day than it does to reach for our goals [the big and …

How We Stole Australia – Thoughtful on Tuesday

Greeting fellow bloggers here in Australia and from across the pond.  I thought that in the spirit of National Reconciliation Week here in the land of Oz I’d take us on a little history tour back to the reason why saying Sorry doesn’t really quite cover it.  To understand how the situation here in Australia came to …