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I'm delighted and really honoured to announce that I've been made a Patron of the BookEnd Trust in Tasmania. As they explain,The Bookend program seeks to inspire students and the community with the potential of building positive and effective environmental careers and solutions.I loved being made a part of it. I've been fascinated by Tasmanian wildlife since my first trip to Hobart in 1998.
We achieve this through a diverse range of projects, including scholarships, documentaries, school visits, public presentations, on-ground field courses and the award-winning Expedition Class adventure learning program.
You can read all about it at http://www.bookendtrust.com/index.php/newsletterfeb2011, learn about the BookEnd Trust and see some amazing photos. Here's a BookEndTrust YouTube video of me and Amanda getting close and personal with two echidnas named Eric.
People ask why this blog doesn't have comments enabled, and it goes back to how old it is. When I started blogging, blogger didn't do comments. And by the time it did, well, I liked it just how it was, and had no desire to change anything. Over on Facebook, there are comments, so I got to see something close to a flame war break out over whether, when I had posted a photo of me with an endangered Tasmanian Land Crayfish, I had meant "crawfish" or not. (I should have just said "Yabby.")
And I thought, yup, that's why I've never turned on comments here.
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Sometimes I think that when I die, or perhaps as I am dying, I shall be confronted with my characters.
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And yes, this was shot in my house -- in the front room I don't use much, and in the downstairs library.
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I'll try and get my hands on a higher quality version of it -- the one they've put up is amazingly low rez -- but I think you'll like it.
Sometimes I think that when I die, or perhaps as I am dying, I shall be confronted with my characters.
Not the ones you would expect, the ones who had their stories, but the other ones. The characters whose stories I planned to tell but never did. There was the girl who never made it into Season of Mists (was her name Carmen? I think it was) who talked about herself in the third person and described herself as "hard as effin nails", and the lonely journalist trying to investigate the Bender family in Kansas and elsewhere in the Michael Zulli Sweeney Todd story, and Jenny Kertin who is waiting for me to take her to the village of Wall and wishes I'd hurry it up...
Them, and a few dozen others, the people from the tales I never told, who have waited on the boundaries between the potential and the actual, in a ghostly limbo. They'll be so disappointed when I die. And I have no doubt I will feel guilty, for all the stories I'll never write.
Not that that'll be happening for some time to come. But I've been talking to friends of mine who are writers at the end of their lives, and it makes me think.
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I mentioned on Twitter that I'd made a Sweet Potato/Tamarind/Tofu/Polenta casserole and that Maddy has astonished me by liking it, and Wil Wheaton promptly asked for the recipe. Which is much too long for Twitter:
What I like doing with recipes most is ignoring them. Or at least, going "Well, yes. Although I don't have any of those things. But I do have something a bit like it..."
The idea came from a recipe in Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Appetite For Reduction. (Incidentally, I'm now comfortably wearing long-forgotten jeans from the size 31 tub, and do not plan to lose much more weight, because there are only two pairs of jeans in the 30 tub.)
So...
I'd learned from various books on making tofu less boring that you can slice it and put it in the f
I mentioned on Twitter that I'd made a Sweet Potato/Tamarind/Tofu/Polenta casserole and that Maddy has astonished me by liking it, and Wil Wheaton promptly asked for the recipe. Which is much too long for Twitter:
What I like doing with recipes most is ignoring them. Or at least, going "Well, yes. Although I don't have any of those things. But I do have something a bit like it..."
The idea came from a recipe in Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Appetite For Reduction. (Incidentally, I'm now comfortably wearing long-forgotten jeans from the size 31 tub, and do not plan to lose much more weight, because there are only two pairs of jeans in the 30 tub.)
So...
I'd learned from various books on making tofu less boring that you can slice it and put it in the f
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By: Neil Gaiman,
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And yes, this was shot in my house -- in the front room I don't use much, and in the downstairs library.
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Trust me on this: Go to http://www.bordersmedia.com/backlot/coraline.asp and watch the first film (it's Number 1 of 7.)I'll try and get my hands on a higher quality version of it -- the one they've put up is amazingly low rez -- but I think you'll like it.
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