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About Me

Aesthete. Bibliophile.Lover of good stories, fairytales (particularly the nasty ones), autumn, the internet (because it is like a Very Big library of almost everything), wunderkammers, and science!Hobbies include learning to drive at the local cemetery (you can't kill the dead), and falling for blackbirds.

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My Blog

One word meme.

Where is your mobile phone? Windowsill.Where is your significant other? Selling.Your hair colour? Red.Your mother? Bonkers.Your father? Distant.Your favourite thing? Secret.Your dream last night? Forg...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:57:00 GMT

the meaning of watermelons

On Saturday, the magic of the internets brought two of my favourite lovelies, all the way from the old country and the new world, to my bed by video chat. And it was wonderful! But it intensified my...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:58:00 GMT

two dreams from the night before last

I dreamed of native Tasmanian hippos on the rocky island shores. They were just like regular hippos, but smaller, docile, and their lips looked more like rhino lips than hippo lips. They liked to hang...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:40:00 GMT

imagine that

It turns out that I'm occasionally, casually interested in politics. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I'm mostly bored by the palaver, and disturbed by the illusion of democracy. I very rarely wat...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:44:00 GMT

A time and a place for everything.

On Monday the 14th of January, I went to the supermarket.There were Easter eggs for sale.
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:04:00 GMT

2007 Meme

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?told my boss he's a fucker (it was appropriate at the time, but he's not all bad really). got personal with the interwebs : myspace. facebook.2....
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:03:00 GMT

All is well. Sort of.

The long overdue update on the bookshop is that everything is good now. It was a marathon cleanup effort but the building was structurally okay and to look at it now, you'd never know the place was a ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:01:00 GMT

A smoked and soggy bookshop is the saddest thing of all :(

The fire is still burning. I couldn't sleep much last night. Was up at 4am and kept looking out the window. Turned on the telly to see if there was any news. Only damage bill estimates there. At 8.45a...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:30:00 GMT

The city is ablaze

Today, as on many Saturdays, I pimped literature at Ellison Hawker Bookshop. At 3pm the sirens were blaring and the department store a few doors up from the bookshop was evacuated. A false alarm, I th...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:24:00 GMT

Of Portraits and Pangolins.

Wow. How long since I posted? Too long.A quick round up of stuff I've been doing - using my fingers to remember rather than getting my diary onscreen - and not in any chronological order...The Grand O...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:43:00 GMT