Yesterday, wandering through the crowded spaces of the Carriageway Children’s Festival, in Sydney, I was photographing my grandson and his antics with all the objects of play there and with the other children and inadvertently snapped a curly red-headed boy making sounds on a huge curly horn sh… Read full post »

Part I

I’m tired of waking up feeling physically ill because of the stress I’m experiencing, stress and sadness and exhaustion. My son has just gone into rehab and I’m facing eviction.

In late August 2008 a water pipe in our yard sprung a leak, it was well under way before I… Read full post »

Climate change has become an element in a lot of new writing that I've come across lately. Either it is mentioned in passing or is a major theme as in Jannette Winterson's 'The Stone Gods' or in Cormack McCarthy's post-apocalypse 'The Road'. The future of our planet is portrayed in frightening… Read full post »