Comments on: Vicious koalas, leeches and deadlines

By: Nicky

Nicky — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:56:48 +0000

Such a good description of koalas…imho the media tarts of Oz wildlife (give me a wombat, platypus, or echidna any day).

My o/s friends all wanna hold the cute cuddly widdle koala..until they do it *lol*.

By: Justine

Justine — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:26:02 +0000

Ally: It’s not very common. Lots of Aussies don’t know it. Also “Oz” means “Australia”.

Dawn: Congratulations!

AndrewN: I told Scott. He laughed the happy but demented laugh of a man who has not reached his deadline yet. But he was dead chuffed.

By: AndrewN

AndrewN — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:51:20 +0000

My mother read “Uglies” and she and her peers (~70yrs) now refer to themselves as “Crumblies”. Life mimics fiction.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:00:47 +0000

I won the signed copy of Magic’s Child from Diana’s site! I’m SOOOO HAPPY!!!

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:39:26 +0000

Crumblies. haha I think its really funny that people really use that word..we’d probally get in touble for calling old people crumblies..ill go try it on my grandpa, wait to yall call them grandpas in Austalia?

Oh he didn’t do anything..oh well
My grandma ask me if it was some kind of new word haha

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:23:58 +0000

Dawn: It is the best security system of all time.

Cheryl: I’ll be following it on cricinfo and the guardian.

Jenny: What a nightmare! I would die! Can you run away to a heated place?

Veejane: It is house of silence. i want music I gotta put headphones on but then I can’t hear the pleas for hot towels.

Simon: Actually, I write everything with caps. So what you’re seeing through your reader is how I write. My blog just strips the caps away ~~in order to annoy the crumblies~~ because it’s fun.

By: Simon Sherlock

Simon Sherlock — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:17:30 +0000

Ha, I read your blog through http://www.bloglines.com and it puts all the caps in for you

By: veejane

veejane — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:35:18 +0000

So… not required to play the same disco hit over and over again, to keep the muse appeased? Or is this a strict-silence writing household?

Deadlines are Evil. The only thing good about them is that they make writers work harder.

By: jenny davidson

jenny davidson — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:25:02 +0000

good luck with the deadline!

the boiler in my building went out early this week, they are doing emergency replacement work & swore it would not affect hot water etc.; and indeed there still has been hot water (except for one very inconveniently hour-and-a-half-long pipe-related disaster when the water was off EXACTLY when i needed to take a post-run shower & be out of the house again 20 mins later, it was a disaster), but there is no heat at all! and the temperature is in the 30s! i am on the verge of getting my sleeping bag out of the closet and, like, huddling up in it on my chair! i am not in fact very sensitive to cold, i don’t get cold easily, but it’s fairly extreme in this case…

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:19:51 +0000

I’ve always assumed that the noxiousness of koalas is related to their food. I can quite see how a constant diet of eucalyptus leaves might lead to an excess of pungent gaseous effluent.

I trust that your wifely duties will not prevent your from watching the England-Australia game.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:29:44 +0000

You are an amazingly devoted wife. The rest of us also appreciate since we’re waiting to read Scott’s new book too. I envy your security system, and I wish I would have thought of something like that! Props on being so cunning. I didn’t even notice!