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Just spent a few days up at Byron Bay for Mum’s 60th birthday celebration. We had a great party on Saturday, starting at lunch time and continuing well into the night. It’s hard to imagine being alive for 6 decades but seeing Mum happy and healthy, dancing and celebrating, was an inspiration and made me reflect on life a little. We tend to think as we get older we can’t do as much and it does usually come to that eventually for most people but seeing Mum, Dad and their friends on Saturday showed that life can still very much be a lot of fun at any age.

We spent a couple of days beforehand in the kitchen, each of us making different dishes. Ian made vegetable curry, lasagne, white chocolate cheesecake and a lemon cake. I made a Moroccan lamb stew and an apple crumble and Mum did a coffee cream roll and a couple of salads. We didn’t go hungry.

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While living in Cambodia in 2003 on an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development volunteer placement (AusAid), I kept a diary of my experiences and observations. It was a fantastic time, I learnt a lot and met some great people. I’ll be progressively adding the entries over the next little while.

See Miss Phnomer in Cambodia for the entries.

One more week of the creative writing course to go. It has been really enjoyable and a few of us are thinking of doing the follow-on course next term.

I have written a few pieces over the last 7 weeks and I will post some of them here asap. Apart from motivating me to write, it has given me more understanding of the process of building up a style and voice through practice and experimentation and the unlimited range of subject matter from the smallest incident to universal truths.

It has also been a great way to find out about some excellent authors and publications I hadn’t read before.