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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

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01. Friday evening at Slow Poke cocktail bar (and then dinner afterwards at Pincho Disco). The view from Slow Poke toward Kew is one that you don’t get often. And, the Slow Poke Sling cocktail was exceptional. Also, is it crazy to have made travel plans for 2028?! Because my friend and I have… Continue reading →

The Happiest Things from Things That Are Making Me Happy

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It’s hard to pick out the happiest of happy things but this is my list of 2025 highlights (excluding books – more on those later – and holidays, and I had some amazing ones this year, notably Hobart, Cambodia, New Zealand, and my sinkholes tour). Continue reading →

Show-off Holiday Post: My Sinkhole Tour

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I love sinkholes. I realise that sounds weird, but I love them because the fact that the ground can just open up is an oddly comforting reminder of our irrelevance in the broader scheme of things… that we lack any real control.

As it happens, 95% of Australia’s sinkholes are in a 20km radius of Mt. Gambier in South Australia (land of the Bungandidj people). I recently had a four-day trip there, focused on snorkeling at Kilsby Sinkhole (pic above), and visiting as many other sinkholes as I could get to. Continue reading →

Nonfiction November 2025 – Book Pairings

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It’s Week 3 of Nonfiction November, this week hosted by Liz at Adventures in Reading, Running and Working From Home. The task? Pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. This is my absolute favourite #NFN exercise.

Swimming and grief – The Tidal Year by Freya Bromley and The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Continue reading →

Nonfiction November 2025 – Choosing Nonfiction

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This week, Nonfiction November is hosted by Frances at Volatile Rune and it’s all about how we choose nonfiction.

It’s relatively straightforward for me – I have a few key categories that I’m always drawn to: Continue reading →

Nonfiction November 2025 – My Year in Nonfiction

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Nonfiction November kicks off today with My Year in Nonfiction, hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story.

Strictly speaking, I should call it Memoir November (Memvember?!) – doesn’t have quite the same ring but it is more accurate in my case, given that the majority of my nonfiction reading is memoir. Specifically, I’ve read 23 memoirs, and ten other nonfiction titles this year. Continue reading →