Like so many avid readers in the last year or so I devoured Helen Garner’s diaries. I was intrigued to find out what the great Australian author wrote in her own private papers. Surely no-one…
Month: June 2022
Coming Home – to the fading art of writing letters
I don’t go to the mailbox every day anymore. There was a time when I knew to the minute when the mailman and his cache of letters would come. My desk in the Eyrie with…
Coming Home – to pens and ink
I am addicted to fountain pens and ink. I grew up reading the old classics all of which featured a heroine who was a girl (like me) who sat at her desk at the end…
Coming Home – to places to write
In the corner of the Eyrie is my little white school desk. You know the sort. Standalone, wooden, an angled lid that lifts to reveal the contents of a stationery hoarder. Bottles of ink and…