Get a signed bookplate!

If you would like your book to be signed, then please email me with your name and address and I will send you a signed bookplate to stick inside your book. Make sure to include whom you would like it made out, too. Then after a week (or more….mail is slow from the bush) is
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Book Two!

Here is book two. Still unnamed, but I’ve been calling it Clean Cut for want of a better name. I have just finished putting all these changes onto the computer! Easier said than done. But it’s a huge weight off my mind now its done. I then had a house cleaning frenzy…believe me it was
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The Treasure Hunt is over!

Congrats to the winners of our Treasure Hunt Giveaway. Here’s the announcement from Bron Parry’s website: ‘So, looking up the list of entrants, the 22nd entrant, and the winner of a signed book from each of the four authors involved is: A man entering as a surprise for his wife, so I won’t put the
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Bookclub

Another great night out with the girls at bookclub. This months book was The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. We picked this book because it had won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and ABIA book of the year.It is about the outcome after an adult slaps a nearly four year old at a BBQ. So we thought
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The Tree

For those of you wondering what the ‘tree’ looks like, that I talk about or wrote about in The Family Farm, here is a picture. I did this up for a special friend leaving the district and I wanted her to take something of Pingaring with her. Everything in this photo frame came from the
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Women’s Expo and Me!

If you’re near Kulin on Thursday 11th March from 1pm to 7pm, come to the Kulin Freebairn Recreation Centre for the Womens Expo and see whats on offer. Plenty of guest speakers (me included) and stalls galore. Bring your mum and your girlfriends! Tickets available at the Rec Centre on 9880 1000.
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Connelly Cartoons

I wanted to share these couple of cartoons from the Connelly Cartoons book I have. Brett Connelly has done a great job drawing moments from the bush and these two I particularly like. I can tell you how weird it is to be harvesting in the dry heat only for it to begin raining to
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Top five for The Family Farm!

Whilst on holidays I spotted this in the local paper and couldn’t believe it. Talk about a surprise! I feel very special to be sitting in 5th spot for the week.
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Trailer for The Family Farm

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Spring is sprung

We are slowly moving into warmer weather but, hopefully, the rain will keep coming. I haven’t seen much canola planted around our area, not along the road side anyway. But when we got near Cunderdin and Dowerin there were heaps of canola crops. Their yellow flowers are a sight to see, especially next to a
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