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About Me

Ive lived from Boomi on the Queensland border to the S-W of NSW and everywhere in-between - currently lodged in sydney. I painted pen and watercolors for years before beginning to write, initially to illustrate my own work. Then the words took over. My father, JK Osborne wrote stories, published in anthologies years ago so maybe its in the genes. ABC Radio National has broadcast several stories and plays since 2005. Various stories published in magazines and journals: Meanjin, Island, Antipodes (USA) and Panurge (UK), Penthouse, Womens Weekly, Northern Perspective. Working on a new story derived from my visit to Darwin and Kakadu august 07. So far so good!

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My Interests

Following political happenings home and o/seas... gardening for the soul. Reading/writing of course. theatre, film.

Music:

Favourites: the fabulous music of Gurdjieff - piano and cello. Love Enrique Granados: 12 danzas espanolas played on 10 string guitar by Anders Miolin. check it out! Jeff Buckley, Neil Young, Miles Davis, Mozart's clarinet concerto, Bruch's violin concerto...Prokoviev's Romeo & Juliet, JL Hooker, Cold Play, Foo Fighters etc etc...

Movies:

a few like Jim Jamusch's Down by Law. What's eating Gilbert Grape. Swoon (director Tom Kalin) Lives of Others. Small films like Local Hero, the australian film Amy...

Television:

ABC/SBS - occasional trash TV

Books:

some memorable books for many different reasons: Birdsong: Sebastian Faulks. Suttree: Cormac McCarthy. The Sitters: Alex Miller. The Constant Gardener: John le Carre. The Poisonwood Bible: Barbara Kingsolver. Don't take your Love to Town: Ruby Langford Ginibi. Various poets: Dylan Thomas, TS Eliot (some) Louis McNeice, Shakespeare, Shelley,lots more.... and books I remember from waaay back: Fly away Peter: David Malouf. The Passage: Vance Palmer. Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (frightening ones!)Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 - re-read...still powerful. Kafka's novel The Trial put a new perspective on my outlook when I read it aged 20yrs old.

Heroes:

overseas aid workers in places like Dafur. The Australian Anti-Bases Coalition. Journos who go into war zones to show us the truth. On a quieter note: Fred Hollows Foundation: restoring sight to folks who have cataract/trachoma. conservationists of flora and fauna.

My Blog

Roddys trip - the story

Follows from story 12 - Roddy has taken the rifle to go bush and shoot feral cats and foxes A flash of orange further along the creek alerts him. He watches the progress of th...
Posted by julia osborne on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:39:00 PST

the story 12

Roddy’s trip 2 Heat presses down on Taree, the flat disc of the river sliding below its iron bridge, the glare of a wide blue sky as the Kingswood turns r...
Posted by julia osborne on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:51:00 PST

back to the story 11

If you’ve just tuned in: It’s 1991 the day of the international march for peace, a protest against the Coalition of the Willing bombardment of Iraq Very early, Aphra&r...
Posted by julia osborne on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:02:00 PST

story continues 10

Still in Glebe, at Irene's place... the deadline has passed: 'Anybody home?' Irene calls as she opens her front door. Qwerty runs to her, rubs around her legs, opens his mout...
Posted by julia osborne on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:01:00 PST

story continues 9 and the rabbit poem

'I wrote this poem,' Roddy puts down his cup, unfolds a scrap of paper from his pocket. Irene looks quizzically at her nephew. 'Poem, Rodney? I didn't know you wro...
Posted by julia osborne on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:26:00 PST

story continues 8

1991 - Sydney The blueness of the street lamp dapples through the trees. Roddy is sitting on a garden bench, leaning against the brick wall. The shrubs make deep shadows, yet...
Posted by julia osborne on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:24:00 PST

the story continues 7

James returns to Sydney with Roddy and Cath. He's decided to fly to Cairns the next day rather than hitch... they are at Irene's house in Glebe... Introducing Aphra, the Datura Lady : &nb...
Posted by julia osborne on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:55:00 PST

story continues 6

Roddy and James have drunk a bottle of port out on Saltwater Beach, managing to establish a drunken camaraderie... now they've driven into Taree to Roddy's parents' house... introducing Fit the Ferret...
Posted by julia osborne on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:12:00 PST

story continues 5

ON THE ROAD continues They stopped at a roadhouse. There were a few trucks, some cars. James wondered about asking for a lift back to Taree. He had no idea...
Posted by julia osborne on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:58:00 PST

story continues 4

ON THE ROAD The service station was too far from the road. James pulled the extra-lightweight neatly folded waterproof jacket from a pack pocket and slipped the hood over his head. ...
Posted by julia osborne on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:15:00 PST