A golden outfit made from spider silk has gone on display at London's Victoria and Albert Museum: The four-metre-long hand-woven textile, a natural vivid gold colour, was made from the silk of more than one million female golden orb spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar by 80 people over five years. I remember hearing [...]

The laundry sink is backed up, so there's been no washing for over a week now, which has forced a little ingenuity and/or creativity into this week's wardrobe choices. If I were rich, I could afford to live somewhere that had, oh, I don't know, working taps. It's the little things, eh? Anyway! I have [...]

Yesterday I foolishly put a call out for Aus/NZ female writers who have work available on the Kindle, as part of the Australian Women Writers 2012 challenge. It is fair to say I have not been able to keep up with the response. Originally I'd intended to go through and present the names in a [...]

It has been suggested by minds cleverer than mine, namely Tansy, that a list of SF & Fantasy (or any genre really) books by female authors available on the Kindle in the Aus/NZ region would be a useful thing. And since I haven't actually managed to start the challenge for myself yet, and since I'd [...]

The playlist for the kelpie story is full of drowning songs. Sinking songs. Listening to it is like having all the air siphoned slowly out of my lungs while weariness expands like a squeaking black balloon in my head. I suspect I need to write this story very, very quickly — or else very, very [...]