downunder update

What happens when you ask a compatriot for a Review? You get one!

I asked. I received. And Bushie’s Net Guide gave me the true blue reply, no pulled punches here, a ridgie didge review that has me now searching everywhere for another template.

I’d be rapt if I could get one like the Bushman.

However, all envy aside, I came across a beaut theme called tomodachi which I picked up at the excellent Theme Lab but my Entrecard goes berserk in there. Bloody shame too, it’s a lovely theme.

I’ll keep looking. Do you have any suggestions for a site with themes? Nothing too difficult for a technophobe like myself.

Reason is a better name than Logic or Rationality. So said Serafina, who champions rationality and deplores any mention of magic. Especially the witchcraft (smokes and mirrors she calls it) practiced by her own mother. But what happens when her daughter is 15?

Justine Larbalestier won an Andre Norton Award for best genre Young Adult novel in May 2007 with this tale of beautiful and fearsome magic. Read the rest of this entry »

Review : Whale Rider : a gripping mystical fable and simply one of the most beautiful films I have seen in my entire life.

Not so much a Weekend Read but a Weekend Watch.

When his canoe capsized a thousand years ago, Paikea escaped death by riding to shore on the back of a whale.

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people honour this great ancestor and the Whangara chiefs are considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Read the rest of this entry »