For the past four months, I have been renting a little cottage east of Adelaide’s city centre in the suburb of Dulwich. Much of the suburb’s residential properties date back to the 19th century and are heritage-listed. The streets are shaded by avenues of jacaranda trees making it a rather pleasant place to live. My […]
After a series of winter storms, and on a perfectly calm day, a huge gum tree uprooted itself and thumped across the footpath by the lake. It’s a good job nonone was underneath it at the time. I was reminded of a poem by Shirley Hughes; one I mentioned before back in 2017. A big […]
Last week I wrote about my ‘you are creative’ journal. The first page I turned to had me writing down one of my favourite quotes and this week I’m finding a poem I love. Of course there are lots of wonderful poems out there, If by Rudyard Kipling would be one of them. The children […]
Waking the Wombat