Toast for
Two
— Tony Rogers
"There are three distinct types: 'dormant,
uncommitted, and unmotivated'". |
For Joan
— Bet Briggs
| "Her last book, her
autobiography, in which she describes dramatically her Depression
childhood, her battle with polio and her years as a young woman working
in Sydney during World War II, embraces all those developing interests
with clarity and compassion, enthusiasm and poignancy." |
A tribute to a departed friend.
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Researching Mary Bennet — Jennifer Paynter
| "And
more particularly, I’d have to find out about the privileged world of
the English country gentry — their houses and servants and horses and
carriages, what they wore, what they ate and drank, how they (mis)spent
their time, etc." |
"If you're making up a story set in
the past", be prepared for the inherent dangers.
|
I Can't
Find Rhymes for My Couplets — and Other Catastrophes — Eileen Marshall
Watch out! Even outside capital
cities it's getting dangerous. |
| Web Line —
Tony Rogers
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Mary
Bennet — Jennifer Paynter
Part 16 of our serialised novella. |
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like
— Harlish Goop
You don't read detective stories? Never mind. Enjoy
some clever wordplay instead.
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| This Rain
— Bet Briggs"How beautiful . . ."
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Quintessential Quirky Quotes
Comic and Classic, from
Everywhere and Everywhen
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From the Back Verandah
— Fizzgig
| "In
the 1990s cosmologists started muttering that they had discovered a
puzzling fact. (So what’s new?) Their new fact implied that the universe
was actually younger than some of its oldest stars. Which is absurd, as
Euclid used to say." |
Just in case you care, the age of the
universe is . . . |
