Archive for the 'General' Category

I started back at University today for the second semester for this academic year. For new readers to my blog I am currently a quarter of the way through doing my Master of Arts in Creative writing course at Tabor College in Adelaide, South Australia.
This semester I am studying three units as follows:

Themes in Australian […]

Computers are wonderful - and also very frustrating. I’ve been using computers now for about twenty years - I remember with fondness the old Commodore 64 I first used while teaching back in the late 1980s. Teachers could go on a roster to take a computer home for the weekend so we could familiarize ourselves […]

Hi there everyone. I haven’t disappeared, nor have I given up blogging.
Truth is - I haven’t been able to post for quite a while due to several factors. First - I was extremely busy getting all my assignments finished for the university Creative Writing course I am doing. Secondly, we were away for a few […]

Christmas Greetings to all of my readers.
I trust you are having - or have had - a wonderful day.
We had a very quiet Christmas. Our daughter is home at present; we are always pleased to spend time with her because of the busy demands of her work. We had a delightful Christmas lunch after attending […]

WARNING: slight tangent ahead.
Yes readers, a slight tangent ahead. This post is not much about writing, though I guess you could say it is about reading - or not being able to read.
There was a slight accident on Adelaide’s O-Bahn rapid transit bus way yesterday. Two Irish tourists had just arrived in their hired motor […]