Deborah Kalin

I will never, ever, not ever be happy about this whole roofs malarkey.

"This is fine", version 2.0?

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パトロールに励むまるさん。乗り物を使おうと思ったけど、自分で押さないと動かないやつだった！ Maru works hard on patrol. He used a vehicle, but it didn't move unless he pushed it himself. #猫 #まる #Maru #cats

Y'all, Aniseed has one of the highest chill quotients possible.

Hello especially now it is getting cooler in Melbourne this is Ani's only preferred position

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I'm not saying that a lifetime of sitting and/or laying around reading has done some damage, but I'm also not NOT saying that...

NEW LIFE GOAL (I'll just park my chicken leg house that allows me to run a mobile haunted Japanese bathhouse (and solve murders in the country as an ad hoc side hustle) a little back from the cliff edge and Sailor Pete's bone marrow is your next healthy snack. Or, yanno, Bob's your uncle. Whatever.)

Getting ready for a hot siren spring 🧜‍♀️

11/10 would try to pat the dragon birb

Why do I feel like there is a very clear, simple and obvious lesson I could learn from this story ... that I will, in fact, not learn? (But also, look how happy he is!)

100% my cat would do this if she could.

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She's not wrong...

I hear the English countryside is fab this time of year 👀 #Bookstagram #BookLover #Bibliophile #Bookworm #BookNerdsBeLike #bookmemes [image: a quote from Twitter user iconawrites. Quote reads: One of the hardest decisions in a woman's life is whether she wants to spend her final years in a wooden hut with chicken legs, solving murders in the English countryside, or running a haunted Japanese bathhouse.]

Next-level notebooking 😍

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"The short answer is simple: Ukrainians call their capital “Kyiv” (kee-yiv), the spelling, a transliteration of the Ukrainian Київ. The Russian version is “Kiev” (kee-yev)."

How to pronounce and spell ‘Kyiv’, and why it matters With Ukraine’s capital under siege from Russian forces it’s only fair that we outsiders get our language right

Books are dangerous, y'all 🤣

I first read this book when my daughter was about 12 months old - and found the protagonist's situation too frighteningly-relatable to my own circumstances at the time.

So, much as I adore and love the book ... it's not something I can enter into re-reading lightly. And for some reason I find stories told on-screen far more traumatising than those in books. It's the immediacy of the medium, I suppose, and that nothing is left to my own imagination. So I find myself considering the arrival of this version with not a little trepidation. I'm not sure I'll actually be able to sit through it! Are you looking forward to it?

The Handmaid's Tale The critically acclaimed drama adaptation of acclaimed author Margaret Atwood’s award-winning novel follows the gripping story of Offred (Elisabeth Moss), a handmaid who lives in the dystopian state of Gilead, a totalitarian society that was formerly part of the United States.

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My bedside table at Varuna - because when you're a mother, you're tenanted by your children even after birth, even when they're away from you. The picture is of me (for Mother's Day), and apparently that's my "smiling face"? Which I guess means I've taught my kid that shouting = smiling?? 🤣

In updating my Page to take advantage of Facebook's featured products, I discovered Amazon has Cherry Crow Children on sale at the moment.

Was it Neil Gaiman who said writing was like wrestling a bear, and sometimes (often) the bear wins? Somebody said something along those lines, anyway. And today the bear most definitely won.

I woke late, forgot to eat breakfast*, let Real Life interruptions waylay me from working on my writing first, and then found all my mental energy dissipated when it came time to digging into the manuscript. So I let myself dither away the rest of the afternoon on valid (but not novel-writing) tasks. When I decided I'd had enough of that, and a walk to a local cafe for a soy chai latte might reset the headspace, I set out on said walk ... without my wallet. Sigh.

But did you notice all those verb choices up there, and the pronouns? Yeah. That's right. I'm responsible for all the mistakes that led to the bear winning today. And one thing the bear hasn't done is convince me that tomorrow will be just as bad. And at least I did get my walk in for the day. So. Onward and upward. Or at least onward.

(Bear picture chosen because he looks like he might be drowning, too. Solidarity, ursine enemy. Photo by Ryan Grewell, found via unsplash.com)

* No, I don't know how it's possible either; maybe it was the enormous slab of salmon I ate for dinner last night?

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I took this photo decades ago now - its Wiemar, Germany, in March, and it's the first travel photo I ever took that truly captured what that precise moment brought me and meant to me. Solitude and silence in a European wood (well, park, but when you're from Australia and you've been reading your whole life about the woods where Big Bad Wolves live...)

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Trees always inspire me; I swear I could spend hours studying the bark and structure of trees. How long has this sentinel been soaking up the dead people buried beneath this park?

It turns out a little silence is good for a writer's soul ... this morning I discovered a draft I'd written not quite a full year ago about applying for Varuna the Writers' House.

on clawing my way back towards my words I opened up my website this morning to blog about Varuna, and in my drafts folder I discovered a blog post about the process of trying to apply, not quite a whole year ago. So today I’m going…

Sshhh! Writers at work! (To be honest, I'm struggling more than I'm writing, and the sunshine is whispering to me of the benefits of a refreshing walk...)

When you know right from the outset that one cup of tea won't be enough ... make two!

Revising my novel got me like

I know the feeling ;P

I'd say this is an appropriate entranceway to a writer's residency, yes.