(Okay, maybe you’ve already dusted off your machine long ago! Or maybe you use it all the time? I understand. It’s just a headline, you know?!) I’ve been scouting around for…
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How nostalgic foods are soothing Melbourne’s pandemic pain As Melbourne’s second lockdown kicked in, I found myself standing at my kitchen bench, considering the newly imposed curfew, battling competing waves of…
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Oh hello there! A few people have asked me whether I would consider mentoring them lately … and to be perfectly honest I would LOVE TO but I am feeling a…
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Mostly I have been spending time sitting at the kitchen table these days. It’s bright and I love working and making stuff in the heart of the house. I have an…
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Oh hello YOU. How are you going? I am going okay. Things could be better, but by golly things could be so much worse so I am glad that I am…
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Some of us (cough!) are finding it a wee bit hard to focus on good things right now … but those are the times when the good-thing-finding are most important, don’t…
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Feeling A Bit Sht Nice Life Reminders Pip-LifeFeeling a bit sh*t? These things might help you feel less so
How about a few fun/fancy things to brighten your day? I think it’s a good idea … Kids’ drawings made into rugs? Okay! This is such a great story! This lady’s…
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Perhaps you, like me, have a copy of The Artist’s Way? I was watching Russell Brand’s channel this morning and happened upon an interview he did with that book’s author, Julia…
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Let’s play Three Good Things! Here are mine … 1/ Michelle Obama has a new podcast (on Spotify) and in the very first episode she interviews her husband. I really liked…
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Any time I share photos of my crochet work, a lotta, lotta, lotta of people ask me what yarns and colours I use. To be honest I just pick up yarn…
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Nice Life Reminders Pip-LifeEleven Things That Are Helping Me Feel More Okay During COVID Restrictions …
We’re in Stage 3 restrictions in Melbourne, which is honestly the least we can do to help get this virus under control and honour those who have lost their lives or…
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I am scraping in by the skin of my teeth with Three Good Things Thursday. I missed last week due to being highly disorganised so I am most certainly not going…
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Listen/Watch/Read Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life Three Good ThingsLet’s Play Three Good Things Thursday
Please note this post contains some affiliate links, which means if you buy anything I link to, I get a tiny commission. So know that! Gosh. Another week has rolled by…
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If you’ve read my latest book or follow me on social media (and golly it’s totally FINE if you haven’t and don’t!) you might know that I am a fan of…
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images – left via and right via Hello … how are you going? I am going okay. Nervous and good and worried and fine. Perhaps you feel a bit the same?…
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Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekendSomething Good For The Weekend: The Busy-Book-Writing-Bee Edition
Well hello! I have been a bit quiet here because I am eyeball-deep in writing my new book. Once I have delivered my manuscript I will have more time to do…
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(Don’t worry. I have finished my poetry unit! I’m doing short fiction now!) Here is my final poem – made from an earlier poem I revised. It’s about daydreaming and taking…
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Hello, peaches! You know what time it is? It’s time to take stock! If you haven’t ever done this, maybe today is the day to do so? You could just grab…
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Pip-Life PoetryNothing To See Here. Just A Poem About Birds. A Forthcoming Book. And A Surprise Memoir.
I know. So many POEMS. I am just really loving trying to write poems! #SorryNotSorry ALSO? I am also writing a BRAND NEW BOOK! I have been commissioned by Murdoch Books…
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When I was a kid one of the most comforting things we’d have for a rainy day lunch or after school snack was soup. By soup, I mean canned soup. We’d…
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Maybe you know I have been learning more about writing via Open Universities and studying at Curtin Uni (which is in my former stomping ground of WA)? Well I am and…
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Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekendThe Chipper & Light Edition of Something Good For The Weekend!
This is the zero bad news, not one single upsetting or sad thing edition that we all need. I am feeling chipper and light today after a lovely, rainy early morning walk,…
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Feeling A Bit Sht Listen/Watch/Read When Life Is Not PeachyThe Good And The Bad Of It + A Friendly Mental Health Check In
Gosh. Skimming the media comes up with news about the pandemic – both good and bad – and the occasional story to lift our spirits. It’s so strange, isn’t it? Content…
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Well hello! I know it must seem like I have been awfully quiet, but behind the scenes I have accidentally been writing a book. I am 2 weeks into it and…
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What a difference a couple of months makes. Last time I wrote a Taking Stock post I had no clue of the global upheaval that lay ahead. I am grateful that…
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Feeling A Bit Sht Nice Life Reminders Pip-LifeFeeling A Bit Sh*t? The ‘Open Up Keep Trying’ Edition
Look, it’s been a while since I’ve done Feeling A Bit Sh*t, partly because things have been sh*t for so many people and it’s not something to be made light of.…
