A smooth-barked winter tree looked like an octopus with head buried and tentacles waving in the breeze.
A cat hidden (or not so hidden) inside a side drain of a stormwater drain.
A creek running through a house block. I want one.
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This blackbird has been warbling in the dusk most evenings for the past weeks. It's one of the pair that are now nesting under our deck (and digging through the mulch most days). I suspect the hedge might have been a more restful nesting space but what would I know? My pucs are improving but the windows are not getting cleaner ...
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Book mail!
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The Flower Garden is the story of a quilt made by children locked up in Changi Gaol in 1942 after the fall of Singapore.
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Out March 2026. So beautiful @luciart74 Thanks Team @walkerbooksaus
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13 years from Draft 1 to now!
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Great to see you flexing those poet's eyes! The surprising snippets of life that rollercoaster into poems and stories.Yah!
Thanks Lorraine, I confess there may be a poem or two in the cooking…