Claire’s Blog

The coloured pieces in this quilt are one-inch squares. (yes, quilting still speaks the language of inches)For scale, refer the conveniently visible...

So, I was about to go out the back door when the front doorbell rang.How exciting to 'meet' Wild Pa for real! Is he not beautiful?So many stories...

We are members of the NGV but somehow we seem to wait until the final weeks of most exhibitions before we get to see them.There are two more weeks...

Every year we meet twice with a group of friends - for nearly 30 years now. The first gathering is a weekend away with our families. When we began...

We spent the weekend in and around Warburton, east of Melbourne. Friday night continued the rain of Friday day and brought with it power outage. The...

It's World Poetry Day! Let's celebrate! 2016 marks 100 years since School Magazine began publishing poetry, fiction and non fiction into schools and...

This morning I headed off before the sun was up. The sun was tipping and the world was yawning and stretching as I turned along the Geelong...

Today I was part of Tucker Rd Primary School's Literature Festival. Together with a host of authors and illustrators we delivered workshops to Gr...

Can you reintroduce any of these fabulous words into your everyday conversation? Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenancePussyvan: A flurry,...

We of Melbourne Town are less accustomed to consecutive warm days than those who reside elsewhere. Particularly at this time of year. Well, anytime...

This past weekend, I went to the beach. Can you see it? there is water just between the gaps in the far trees. There would have been pics of the...

 Today, I shared Seadog with young readers at the official opening of the relocated, bigger and brighter Younger Sun Bookshop in Yarraville. After...

I've been visiting Northern Queensland (sigh, but only electronically) to talk about writing 'Big Red Kangaroo' and 'Emu'.Go here to visit.

VLine, Victoria's regional rail network has been having some challenges lately, with wheels and boomgates and schedules, so they offered free travel...

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