Here are the words and my poem for the forty-eighth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. I'm writing a poem a week using prompts sent to me on Instagram. Read more →

When I was in Tassie recently I visited the Marakoopa caves, located on the slopes of the Great Western Tiers. From memory they're around 300 million years old. The caves are part of an internationally significant karst system and are in a National Park. To visit them you have to... Read more →

I was sitting in my friend's backyard yard. When I say back yard I really mean paddock. Actually I mean small village, her place is huge. I was sitting there on her 23 acre property, next to the dam and watching a platypus happily splashing about in the water. That... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the forty-seventh week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

I snuck out of town for a couple of days last weekend to visit a very good friend who has just moved to Tassie. She's swapped the congestion of inner city Melbourne for acreage near Deloraine in the Central Western Tiers. It's a little piece of paradise. She woke me... Read more →

It's been thirteen years since I've had a window seat on a plane. These days it's my girls who get to peer out the window while I sit in the aisle. The view from up there is incredible. Especially when you're flying from Launceston to Melbourne as I did. I'd... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the forty-sixth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

When I was in Canberra I made some time to stop off at the Portrait Gallery. Years ago when I lived there it was located in old Parliament House. It now has it very own, purpose built building squished in next to and in front of the High Court of... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the forty-fifth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

I like travelling to visit friends. There's the excitement and pleasure of a road or plane trip. The anticipation of adventures to come. The packing and organising beforehand. I really enjoying the process of whittling down my possessions to the bare essentials although I must admit I'm a little out... Read more →