Moving

I've moved to wordpress!! Check out my new blog with personalised banner, categories and new pages Thanks Lady Sultana for getting me moving and showing me a few tricks!

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New Friend

I made another friend today! Such an exciting time making a new friend, the possibilities and the excitement that a person's potential brings to someone else's life.

Job Hunting

Wow I'm on the market and I've got a job offer all in a matter of weeks... I've had a fabulous month or so thinking carefully about what I want to do and I've realised a few things - what great friends I've collected over the past few years. People who are prepared to ask hard questions, give genuine support and push me to do bigger and better things.

Paradise

My feet are a little chilled from sitting under the peppy trees just meters from the beautiful Prevelly Beach coast line. My brain is a little buzzy from good wine and great conversation with the fab G & J. I've posted my reading circle books I've read, now I've got a new list! Books to read courtesy of the PP Book Club and the retirees (who have copious amounts of time to leisurely wade through whatever literature they choose to devote their time to!)

Cormack McCarthy
Blood Meridian
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
Cities of the Plain
No Place for Old Men
The Orchard Keeper
The Road
(Yeh but which one do I read first!!)

The Perks of Being Wallflower ...now that sounds up my alley! I remember waiting to be picked to dance in the school (smelly) hall.

Jo reckons not a chance in hell of me being a wall flower - bless him!!


My LIfe as A Fake
Peter Carey
Erm Malley poems, great Australian Fakster


Classic Western (wish my hair was long enough for piggies, bought a great western checked shirt at a garage sale last week...even got the sexy preststuds...love em)
Larry Mc Murktry or something like that
Also by Larry.....what are you doin??? stop with the red wine Ali
Lonesome Cowboy no noo Lonesome Dove
Streets of Loredo (must read the Dove one first)

Joe's reccomendation: "Bloody Good Books"

Signing out ... too much joy to be had to be sitting in front of a PC

All the Books our Circle has read so far ...

Jul-03 Stupid White Men Michael Moore
Aug-03 Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
Sep-03 White Teeth Zadie Smith
Oct-03 Ghost Children Sue Townsend
Nov-03 Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
Jan-04 Immortality Milan Kundera
Feb-04 Death of a River Guide Richard Flanagan
Mar-04 Zigzag St Nick Earl
Apr-04 Life of Pi Yann Martel
May-04 The Australian Fiancee Simone Lazaroo
Jun-04 Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
Jul-04 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon
Aug-04 The Devil & Miss Prym Paul Coelho
Sep-04 Vernon God Little ** DBC Pierre
Oct-04 Running with Scissors Augustin Burroughs
Nov-04 Dry Augustin Burroughs
Jan-05 Rhubarb Craig Silvey
Feb-05 Lines of Beauty Alan Hollingsworth
Mar-05 The Kite Runner ** Khaled Hosseini
Apr-05 The Birth of Venus Sarah Dunant
May-05 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult
Jun-05 Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
Jul-05 A little Russian book about a piano player
Aug-05 Bloodline of the Holy Grail Laurence Gardner
Sep-05 Enduring Love Ian McEwan
Oct-05 Disgrace JM Coetzee
Nov-05 Sunday Philosopher's Club Alexander McCall Smith
Feb-06 The God of Small Things ** Arundhati Roy
Mar-06 Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil John Berendt
Apr-06 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
May-06 Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruis Zapon
Jun-06 Ludmila's Broken English DBC Pierre
Jul-06 The Vintner's Luck Elizabeth Knox
Aug-06 You Gotta Have Balls Lily Brett
Sep-06 Lillian's Story Kate Grenville
Nov-06 Middlesex Jeffery Eugenides
Jan-07 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathon Safron Foer

rotto

Been challenged to blog more by Lady Sultana. so here I am sitting in the visitors centre at Rottnest blogging on australia day. it's stinking hot, i'm pink from a morning at the basin. have tortured myself this holiday by readin a stephen king novel. he is gooood. unputtable downable good. gory horrible scary stuff but good writing nonetheless ...so i blame stephen on my sunburn cos i just had to finish it. reading one of those novels is like being trapped i just have to keep reading despite myself (and despite the 3 - yes 3 maybe 4 "good" books i bought and the downloaded copy of alliancing - but that's another story)

therre are australian flags EVERYWHERE here. our neighbours are wearing it, hanging it, eating off it...goodness knows whaat else in it. somehow it seeems a bit oh i dunno - fake? i'm scared of the americanism of all this flag showing. but more than anything its the consumerism of it all ... these people have actually been to shops and paid money for all this paraphernalia. bet they don't keep it for next year. it'll just be ditched and another set of aussi aussi aussi oi oi oi shit will reappear next year (not carefully found folded in the laundry cupboard, bought brand new from crazy clarks) scary thing is i nearly got sucked in ...stood in front of the aussie merchandise and thought oh that diggers hat covered in the australian flag would be cute (cute????) on mumbling boy.

gonna go all jack on you and slip into stream of consciousness now from mumbling boy to little miss sunshine - now wasn't that a great movie. loved it how they made the boy silent. that period of growing into adult hood is perplexing and confusing and sometimes scary. for those adolescents who manage to tackle it gracefully is awesome .... and perehpas silence is a way of doing that - just sitting back with all your convictions and watching and waiting. i wouldnt want it though cos the joy the real joy of growing up with kids or should i say growing them up??? are the gems they come out with the suprising moments when you realise they are not just your flesh and blood they are these magnificent beautiful people, and thats just what my non silent 15 yo did to me the other day. what was beautiful was through his words his spirit that he was i think born with (oh nature/nuruture lets do that another time) came shining through ... gentle, thoughtful, kind.

ok 10 minutes to go on my credit ...gosh gee there's a lot you can type in 26mins ... i knew i should have aske to exchange the $2 for the $1.

back to rotto ... stunning stunning stunning. spent the first morning at kingston bay right in front of the Uribes (??) wreck. I was completely alone! people pay thousands for what we get here for very little dosh indeed. they've renovated the bungalows!! pretty spiffy and they still feel like the old bungalows, just a lick of paint really .... so I'm laying on the beach at kingston ...not a sould, sounds of airplanes (yairs!! there's a boloody lot of them flying round here?? noise pollution galore) a few speed boats the sea licking the sand ... the limestone provides shade.... what more could you want?? maybe some watermelon or grapes ....


ok folks i'm signing off here ... got to thinkin sitting in front of a keyboard can't compare to lying on a beaach with a good book.


aloha!!

School Holidays

Life is speeding by. Already it is Christmas holiday time. Our beautiful boy Gumby is now fully metal mouthed and I didn't even get to witness the torture. I was away for work and Grandma took him to the Orthodontist to get his braces fitted.

Can't believe he's already finished junior high school. The serious stuff starts next year. Not sure how serious he is about that ... not nearly serious as he is about socialising and keeping up with all the movies and his friends.
He's got a friend visiting at the moment oh how so lucky I am to have such good and interesting people in my life constantly.... bit scary thinking how time flies and what might happen when they really grow up and leave ... I'm loving the vibrancy of having young and interested and passionate people around.

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More books to read

Larry's Party

GREAT book. A winding beautiful insight into a man who thinks he's special but really he's normal. He grows a passion for making mazes and the book is beautifully written so that it is maze like in it's structure. You could read each chapter on its own if you wanted, or start from the beginning and wind through to the end.

A beautiful insight into being normal and human and special.

Turning the space

I like a spiral - it invites you to look at the space between.

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