by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 19, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
Being in-between homes at the moment, one thing I am particularly missing is my broadband internet connection. My laptop has become a pretty prison for all the information it contains, while I must use my hosts’ computer to access webmail using their connection....
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 5, 2009 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I am sitting on a fold-out chair in front of a small rattan chest of drawers that’s doubling as my writing desk, on which my workhorse laptop wobbles. This is what happens when you denude your home of six years of its contents, put almost all of it into storage,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 2, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
That Australian writer Harry Nicolaides is once again a free man is thanks in part to the efforts of many people he will never meet. Influential but largely invisible behind the work of his lawyer Mark Dean, his family in Melbourne, and the Department of Foreign...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 23, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
After six months in detention in Thailand, Australian writer Harry Nicolaides is once again a free man. Nicolaides was arrested in August 2008 on the charge of ‘lese-majeste’, or defaming the royal familiy of Thailand, by referring to certain behaviour of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 21, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I set the alarm clock for 3.30am Sydney time, and woke up with such excited anticipation that I would witness live – if halfway around the world – the inauguration of President Barack Obama. While I am not a citizen of the USA, I am a permanent resident,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 19, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
What is it about the piano? At this month’s Sydney Festival (sadly the last one under the direction of the brilliant Fergus Linehan) a proliferation of piano-related events has brought into focus the peculiar ability of that instrument to appeal to high and low...