Getting back into this blogging thing is easier said than done, I’m finding. And it probably hasn’t helped that I’ve been away for the past three weeks on the other side of the world. Apologies for being late getting back to comments, too! So, where have I been? Back to my husband’s native Australia, toContinue reading “Around The World and Back Again”
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Wednesday Wander – Taronga Zoo, Sydney
This week I’m wandering to a place on the edge of one of the world’s great natural harbours. It also happens to be not too far from where I used to work. This is Taronga Zoo, in Sydney, Australia. Officially opened in October 1916, the zoo is just over 100 years old, and ‘Taronga’ isContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Taronga Zoo, Sydney”
30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Twenty One – Everybody (also, A Wednesday Wander)
It’s day twenty one of the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and today’s prompt is: Everybody. It’s also Wednesday, which means I’ll be taking a wander. However, in line with the prompt, this wander will be slightly different in that I’ll be trying to answer a question that just about everybody asks me, once they hearContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Twenty One – Everybody (also, A Wednesday Wander)”
Wednesday Wander – Manyana Beach
My wander this week is to Manyana Beach, on the NSW coast south of Sydney, Australia. I visited Manyana many years ago with my now-husband. I think I’ve mentioned before that he’s Australian, and likes to surf. On this particular trip we were driving north from Melbourne to Sydney, a drive that takes seven hoursContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Manyana Beach”
Published! A Thousand Rooms
Yay! I’ve made my way through the tangle of formatting and emerged on the other side ready to hit the big red Publish button. A Thousand Rooms, my fourth novel, is now available to purchase through Amazon. A stand-alone novel, A Thousand Rooms follows the story of suddenly-dead Katie and is set in Sydney, Australia,Continue reading “Published! A Thousand Rooms”
Wednesday Wander – Sydney Opera House
Jorn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House is one of the most recognisable buildings in the world, cream coloured sails floating on a point surrounded by blue water. When I lived in Sydney I took the bus across the Harbour Bridge most days to work (I know, it’s tough, right?), yet I never failed to appreciate theContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Sydney Opera House”
Wednesday Wander – Watery Ways
This week’s Wednesday Wander was inspired by an image I used in Monday’s post, of the Sydney ferries at Circular Quay. I lived in Sydney for a couple of years and would often take the commuter ferries across the Harbour, paying a few dollars to bob past some of the most famous landmarks in theContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Watery Ways”
Feeling Light
I love the way the light falls at this time of year. There is a golden richness to it, one that invites you to sit outside for a while with hot tea or cold cider, savouring the last sweetness of summer before the long dark of winter sets in. It feels melancholy to me asContinue reading “Feeling Light”
Helen Glynn Jones 