My new obsession — #jigsaw puzzles

I play games because I hate being bored, but sometimes the opportunity to be bored only lasts for a few minutes — that’s where these super-small, online jigsaw puzzles come in:

The GOPdildo — warning, explicit pics!

GOPdildo is a movement that photoshops pictures of US-Republicans-with-guns into pictures of US-Republicans-with-dildos.

My personal favourite is this one featuring Donald Trump:

#Dollshouses and micro-houses

Did you know I used to build dollshouses? I did, and the pic below is proof:

Caramelised belly pork with sour [Morello] cherries

With a heatwave forecast for the next three days, I thought it might be a good idea to cook dinner this morning, while everything was still nice and cool. So I did, and it turned out to be one of the yummiest recipes I’ve ever tried. Sadly…

#Howto use #Twitter — a tutorial for absolute beginners

Just read this excellent tutorial on Indies Unlimited and thought I’d share. Honestly, I wish I’d seen it when I first started out on Twitter. In it you will find everything you need to know to get started :

Merry Christmas to all and to all a Merry Christmas!

Here in the Antipodes, Christmas Day has dawned bright, hot and very windy, perfect bushfire weather. That’s one reason the Offspring and I did Christmas the European way — last night on Christmas Eve!

Today, I made an old man cry.

This post made me cry too, but in such a good way. Between now and Christmas I’m going to try very hard to make someone cry…because we’re human and humans are capable of great goodness and generosity as well as cruelty and violence. Forget the presents and choose an act of kindness instead.

Vent — the worst New Year’s Eve ever

Here in Australia the countdown to the New Year has begun — 14.5 hours to go if my arithmetic serves — but my mood is anything but festive. I just learned that my car is ‘cooked’.

AMAZING message for everyone #noelsansprejuges

I think the message of this French advertisement comes through loud and clear — like a mime — but just in case it doesn’t, the kids are talking about the kinds of toys they like or feel they /should/ like. Then they’re allowed loose in a room…

#hashtags for Indies

The link below leads to the Indies Unlimited website and an article I wrote about how we [authors] can use hashtags to help readers find our books…if our stories match what those readers are looking for. It’s a bottom-up system rather than a top-down system applied by some retailer.

Open #submissions to Gollanz, January 2016

My thanks to the Offspring for alerting me to this, otherwise I would not have known that Gollanz is holding open submissions. -waves to the Offspring-