Fleur McDonald – blogging with me 1st December!
Australian Author, Fleur McDonald will be blogging with me on Tuesday 1st December.  Her wonderful book, ‘Red Dust’, is set in the mid-north of South Australia. Fleur will also be talking about her new book, ‘Blue Skies’

Blog Bites – RWA
How exciting!  I have my first guest blogging spot on Romance Writers of Australia ‘Blog Bites’. Anita Joy puts together a small blog on a new writer each week. This week it’s me. Visit Blog Bites and feel free to post a comment! I’d love to hear from you. I think I’m gradually working out the guest blogging thingy – it’s like being the new kid at school and asking people to play with you. The great thing about

Left home again…
So I finished the first draft of Beyond the Borders and thought I’d get a moment to celebrate and reflect, instead my body has decided it needs a head cold to to remind it how good life can be… View from the Stamford Sydney Am now sitting in my hotel room in Sydney, trying to remember what I forgot to bring with me and feeling sorry for myself while attempting to wrestle a feather pillow from the tight grip of

What will replace the hardworking Caribou?
The Australia defence force is retiring one of its long standing work horses this year. 38 Squadron says good-bye to the Caribou after 45 years of hard work.  A recent ABC story on Caribou was a nostalgic look at its introduction in 1964. Our ground handler in Townsville, Charlie, was a flight engineer on the Caribou and he recently joined 2000 ex-aircrew to farewell the mighty aircraft. The Caribou has been used extensively in humanitarian operations as well as supporting troops. Its short field capabilities are awesome. So far the government

You can survive a ditching in a commuter jet.
Dominic James did a sterling job today ditching his Westwind jet off Norfolk Island. The ABC story at http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/19/2747466.htm makes interesting reading. That he happens to be  one of Cleo magazine’s top 50 eligible bachelors is academic. It’s his ability to work his way through an emergency and come up with a good outcome. Sometimes weather conditions change so rapidly that pilot’s can be caught out. Good training goes a long way to mitigating these things.