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Have just spent my Saturday afternoon updating Aussiereviews with twenty one new reviews – possibly the most I’ve ever added in a single sitting. Ten of the reviews were by myself, ten by my colleague (and friend) Claire Saxby, and one by Murphlet 3, who enjoys reviewing when it means he gets to read a book before I do. Enjoy the new offerings – there is a real range of books there.

ANZAC Day is coming up this Friday, April 25. This is the day that Australia pauses to remember both the first ANZAC Day, when Australian and New Zealand forces landed in Gallipoli, and all of Australia’s military involvement in international conflict. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about two new books coming out in time for ANZAC Day, but wanted to write about it again because this particular

This evening I was doing a little multi-tasking. On the computer, my FTP program was uploading new files to Aussiereviews. In the kitchen I had dinner underway, with rice boiling on the stove and chicken cooking in the oven. I had the television news on so I could catch the weather report (the Murphlets have a swimming carnival tomorrow). I was ducking in and out the back door to the washing line

Murphlet 5 received a craft kit from his grandmother for Christmas (thanks, Mum). He’s been waiting (im)patiently for me to help him figure it out and make it. The first time I looked at the instructions with him I put it in the too-hard basket and have been making excuses ever since. But today I finally sat down with him to tackle the project. The kit included a french knitting tool, and the

One of my New Year resolutions was to blog more often, yet here it is, the 23rd of January (exactly a month since I last posted), and I’m writing my first post for the year. Not that this is a sign of complete failure – because even when I wrote my list of resolutions, I knew that most of January would be a write-off writing-wise. First, there was the annual Murphy trip to the beach, staying in