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I discovered on New Year’s Eve that my uncle has a house full of bats. As we had to leave the next morning I was kicking myself for not dropping by. Mum was staying there and she said when you’re watching TV you think they’re going to hit you in the face because they lurch […]

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The Highlights

Making a Christmas tree with the kids
Electric blue nail-polish
Rabbit Island Beach, Middleton Beach
An afternoon watching Heidi
Strawberry farm
Smoked trout, port soaked figs & salad rolls from Bay Merchants
Sending the other Squibs downriver on a paddleboat while I lounged on a blanket on the bank reading a sci-fi novel
Wind farm coast walk
Meadery
My flannelette shirts for Chrissy (because nothing […]

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After reading about the overuse of the words ‘heart’ and ’soul’ I had to be perverse and write some heart verse . If you hate poems about hearts you should take extra care not to read it
Also I have posted an old one about Spring as the pollen count has been so high in recent days […]

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The last time I ever read one of my poems in public was at an Anzac Day school assembly
I used to meet up with a wonderful Albany writer who has recently gained a place in the Poetry Slam State Final, and a couple of others in the foyer of The Esplanade Hotel, Albany, which has […]

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According to the AustLit Events Directory, this runs from 31 August to the 9 September. This tells me that we desperately need more poet/mathematicians in Omar Khayyam vein. But whatever happened to National Poetry Day? Has it just been swallowed by National Poetry ‘Week’ or has  it already been and gone, or just gone, or has […]

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