Midweek Assessment — 1 February

by | Feb 1, 2017 | midweek

I love snails. Beautiful creatures with their hard but-oh-so-easily crushed shells. Snail mate! (Sorry, had to say it) In a patch of (I think) button weed. I love those little purple flowers too. And here’s another delicate little land snail In the meantime, the...

Midweek Assessment — 25 January

by | Jan 24, 2017 | midweek

I got my first look at the cover for Meddling and Murder, the next Aunty Lee book! We’re having some lovely rainy days (and laundry hanging on the balcony). No floods around here, luckily, but for a moment today I thought there was a fire in the forest reserve… but it...

Midweek Assessment — 18 January

by | Jan 18, 2017 | midweek

Blood test day. Not my favourite day of the month. Treated myself to durian from Uncle Lee as a reward 🙂 Writing: I’m about half way through the Aunty Lee 5 outline. Having fun with it, but I keep getting characters mixed up. Was it Cherril or Selina who got pregnant...

Midweek Assessment — 11 January

by | Jan 11, 2017 | midweek

It’s been a pretty good start to 2017. I’m reading Elly Griffiths’ The Zig Zag Girlafter really really enjoying Toast & Marmalade, a memoir by Emma Bridgewater. She and her partner acquire china the way I acquire books. And she gives a lovely reason why: “There...

Midweek Assessment — 4 January

by | Jan 4, 2017 | midweek

I’ve just finished reading Jennifer McMahon’s The Winter People. It’s not the kind of book I normally read (Pet Sematary scared me so badly I had to give the book away after reading it. I couldn’t sleep while it was in the house. I’ve stayed away from horror...