Written: October 8th, 2019. Potted History, Mostly From Memory and Probably Wildly Inaccurate. I’m going to use a lot of Wikipedia article because Yay! This isn’t a scholarly document and so I can. In 1842, the...
Read MoreMe: (Turns on laptop with this photo as wallpaper) Me: Isn’t this beautiful? I took this photo. Schoolkids: WHOAAAA Schoolkids: Where is this!!!!???? Me: Kinosakionsen in Western Japan, hot water comes out of the ground....
Read MoreIt’s the middle of winter and I don’t have another appearance booked for two weeks, so time to catch up on the website. I’m planning to post an explanatory page about book sizes. Top to bottom: US Mass market...
Read MoreI’ve posted a bunch of photos of cosplay on my Instagram, and I won’t repeat them here. The middle of winter is a special time at the Gold Coast, the sunsets become intense and the beaches are empty except for...
Read MoreI went out to dinner in Brisbane’s Little Korea with my son a couple of weeks ago, and the cafe next door had Sakura tea. It’s salted and pickled cherry blossoms, steeped in hot water, and the salty-sweet flavour...
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