When you’re a bit old and a bit scruffy, but you still have one excellent head feather.

One of our old regular cockatoos in the tree on this warm and beautiful winter afternoon in Canberra.

Bushfires Now??

I guess we might as well start the weekend with another bushfire. In WINTER.

The geriatrics have arrived!

Three of the four oldies in our resident flock of Sulphur-crested cockatoos in Canberra this afternoon.

Winter Walk in Canberra

I walked to the library on this beautiful winter afternoon to return some books. The way this pandemic is unfolding I suspect we’re going to have closed libraries again soon …

The Artist’s Secret on NetGalley!

Book reviewers! The Artist’s Secret is now available for request on NetGalley.

Despite their growing attraction, both Peter and Elizabeth have secrets that will come between them.

New South Wales, 1887

Peter Rowe’s life is in the city, but his soul is in Australia’s southern tablelands-a place he’s never seen. Taking the new land manager’s position on the thriving estate of Endmoor is the chance he needs to discover what happened to the family he has never met. What he doesn’t expect to find in the bush is his employer’s talented, beautiful sister.

Elizabeth Farrer’s world is changing rapidly. An artist whose work has begun to gain acclaim, her brother’s marriage has made her redundant in her own home and she intends to leave the country and make a life of her own. Her plans would take her far from her beloved New South Wales, but with the arrival of Endmoor’s newest employee-a man unlike any other she has met-she discovers there might just be a reason to stay right where she is.

Just as they conquer their most difficult obstacles, old prejudices rise up and threaten to keep them apart …

Read the First Chapter of The Artist’s Secret!

The first chapter of The Artist’s Secret (out in a few weeks!) is now online. Read and find preorder links HERE.

Canberra on the Weekend

St Christopher’s and Parliament House in Canberra on Saturday afternoon.

Winter Sunset in Canberra

View from the front of my house in Canberra just now!

Dreary Weekend

I trudged down the hill to the local shops to buy a newspaper today, because I knew the headline everyone was running with online was deliberately misleading and I wanted to read the facts (a recommended activity for everyone in these crazy times!).

The best thing about a dreary Saturday afternoon? You get all the footpaths to yourself. The worst thing? I can’t feel my fingers!

Two Months!

Two months until The Artist’s Secret (Brindabella Secrets #2) comes out. And here is a picture of the Brindabellas near my house when we came home yesterday afternoon (not bad for a picture from the back seat of the car!).

Preorder links here.