by Nicole | 14 Aug, 2017 | Family, Writing
This piece about my uncle Sean won second prize in the Memoir section at the Eastwood/Hills Literary Competition for 2017. ~ This can’t have been the first time I met Mr Sean O’Rourke, but it is the first I remember clearly. I was 9 years old and my aunty Steph...
by Nicole | 14 Apr, 2017 | Travel
Our spring trip to the Wheatbelt and Great Western Woodlands coincided with the most spectacular display of flowering.
by Nicole | 14 Apr, 2017 | Travel
Way way back in September Tim and I finally made it to the Great Western Woodlands. I have so many photos, so many words and so many thoughts. So many as to stop me from doing anything at all. Here, if nothing else, are some images from the awe inspiring diversity of...
by Nicole | 12 Jan, 2017 | Writing
I’m thrilled, shocked and amazed all at once to have been one of the lucky twelve chosen for a fellowship at the Katharine Susannah Pritchard Writers Centre in 2017. The application required choosing just 1000 words from the manuscript, together with a synopsis...
by Nicole | 18 Dec, 2016 | Climate Change, Sustainability, Writing
I wrote this quite ranty piece at a time when Senator Malcolm Roberts was receiving a stupid amount of media attention for his absurd climate change conspiracies. I can feel my blood pressure rise and my face redden just writing this. I did send it off somewhere to no...
by Nicole | 29 Oct, 2016 | Blog, Creativity, Life & Home
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was just saying to a friend recently that I have quite a few hats at the moment. One of them is being one part of a team called Sensing Place running Eco-Art retreats…. my role is really just to help with the organisation and...
by Nicole | 14 Oct, 2016 | Climate Change, Sustainability, Writing
I had this piece published in the Drum online. This part of the ABC website has been defunded so I’ve copied the piece here in case it disappears. ~ ~ ~ For climate change ‘sceptics’, denialists, contrarians or what Barry Jones recently called...
by Nicole | 30 Aug, 2016 | Writing
I am really delighted to have a piece published in the Overland Literary Journal. I gave them this piece with an extremely lame title ‘Are the child free just a late modern phenomenon’ and they come up with ‘Baby booms and fallow wombs: the false...
by Nicole | 14 Sep, 2015 | Travel
Switzerland was all about fabulous friends, magnificent mountains, trains and chocolate. In fact we hardly ate any chocolate when we were there, but chocolate shopswere everywhere. We arrived in Morges, on the shore of Lake Geneva, to the open-armed welcome of all the...
by Nicole | 8 Sep, 2015 | Travel
My folks Gaye and Ron have a share in an apartment in Lodeve in the Langue Doc region of France (for some years) but we weren’t sure that we’d ever get a chance to visit. We arrived on a warm afternoon to 1 Place de la Rebublique to find a big (for 2 people) white...
