Today we in Australia will experience the summer solstice – specifically, Saturday, 21 Dec 2024, 7:20 pm (approx) in Brisbane. It will be the longest day, with daylight for 13 hours and 41 minutes. At round about the same time, Europe … Continued
The international news has been full of two things of late – the final fall of Bashar Al Assad’s despicable regime in Syria and the shooting killing of the CEO of one of America’s largest (for profit) health insurance companies, … Continued
Life goes on in the new house as we make changes to suit us. Peter has built some storage in our outdoor room, using flat packs from Bunnings, and we’ve done a bit more work in the garden. I suspect … Continued
This time last weekend I was starting my low fibre diet in preparation for a colonoscopy the following Tuesday. The very worst part of having a colonoscopy is the preparation, cleaning out your intestines so the doctor can see what’s … Continued
I’m pleased to announce that the new house now has solar hot water and solar panels. We enjoyed solar at our previous house and these days it’s even more important to be able to reduce power costs. Despite living in … Continued
It’s been about two months since we moved into our new home and started to appreciate the… what can I say?… inadequacies of the house. Down-sizing became real in ways we hadn’t anticipated. Still, we’ve done quite a bit in … Continued
One of the really fun/exhilarating/annoying/difficult things about writing an SF book is conjuring up the settings. I have vivid memories of seeing the first Star Wars trilogy back in the seventies and eighties. That was in the days before CGI … Continued
Australia is a unique place. It’s the only place on Earth that is at the same time a country, a continent, and an island. And that last property has helped to make it a haven for monotremes, marsupials, and other … Continued
My Pets in Space 9 story is entitled The President’s Daughter so full marks if you guessed one of the main characters is the president’s daughter. Cilla has never quite recovered from the trauma she experienced as a teenager, when … Continued
I’ve had a dip into this year’s Pets in Space and it’s as good as all the others in the Pets in Space limited edition anthologies. The Lone Cyborg by Honey Phillips Mattie is perfectly happy on her isolated mining … Continued