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Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! for The Immortal Jukebox (& groove to The Shadows!)

Posted in Writing on December 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Voted – naturally!

I was very grateful and somewhat amazed at how many of my readers took the time to nominate The Immortal Jukebox for The UK Blog Awards.

Now I would like to ask you to move to the next stage and vote for The Jukebox (and encourage all your family, friends, and social media contacts to do the same!).

Please follow the link and select Art & Culture from the drop down menu:

http://blogawardsuk.co.uk/ukba2017/entries/immortal-jukebox

As a reward here’s ‘Wonderful Land’ an early 60s guitar instrumental from the one and only Shadows featuring the lyrical playing of Hank B Marvin.

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True Blue Review

Posted in Writing on December 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Red Dog: True Blue. The World Premiere Review.

04 DECEMBER 2016 on karratha, film, review by Joel Gibson

Trailer: Red Dog True Blue is in cinemas Boxing Day.

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Santa’s back!

Posted in Writing on December 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »

“AFTER 728 sleeps, Santa Claus was finally back in town last night for the 44th RAC Christmas Pageant.” Toyah Shakespeare, PerthNow December 3, 2016 9:44pm

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Sound Out

Posted in Writing on December 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Ahh, the sound of Bells at Angelus, always make me think of Ireland.

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Trailblazer ~ Isla Fisher

Posted in Writing on December 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Isla Fisher has always been a favorite comedy actress since I first saw her in Wedding Crashers – the way she delivered the line “I’ll find you” is forever engraved on my memory.

So huge congratulations: ‘The 2016 recipient of the AACTA Trailblazer Award is Australian actress Isla Fisher. The Award will be presented to Isla at the 6th AACTA Awards presented by Foxtel in Sydney on Wednesday 7 December 2016, televised on Channel 7 at 8.30pm, with encore screenings on Foxtel.’ : 6th AACTA Awards Presented by Foxtel

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Ring of Fire: life or death for most rare rhinos

Posted in Writing on November 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Fight for Rhinos

Where does the rarest of all rhinos live?

…Ujung Kulon National Park, in the western tip of Indonesia. It is also one of the most densely populated areas on Earth AND one of most volcanically active as well.

Java’s volcanoes have left their mark on the Javan rhinoceros’ fate in many ways.

They gave the island its immense fertility, rich enough to feed the fast-growing population; that is until man began to poach them. Man drove the rhino to the corners of Java ‑ out of its natural habitat, toward higher grounds and isolated peninsulas, as far as possible from civilization without actually dropping into the Indian Ocean.

Then in 1883, there was a massive volcanic eruption. Afterwards, as the land began to recover, Javan rhinos — under heavy threat elsewhere on the island — re-colonized. Humans never returned in large numbers, so to this day Ujung Kulon remains a safe haven…

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Quick Wit and the Ireland I Love

Posted in Writing on November 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Yes, so do I – even wrote poems trying to capture that special quality…

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Writing Short Stories

Posted in Writing on November 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Succinct and applicable advice for writing short stories – naturally Writing.ie is also an excellent resource:

Writing Winning Short Stories by Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin

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Revelations

Posted in Writing on November 28, 2016| 1 Comment »

Beautiful!

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Readers’ Competition

Posted in Writing on November 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Another very favourite West Australian writer – I have some but not all of her books… hint – hint! 🙂

Liz Byrski

book-bundle Would you like to win a bundle of books for yourself or your friends? Summer is such a great time for reading so I hope you’ll like this competition. I’ll be giving away a bundle of four of my books to each of two winners. You can see which books in the photo. With Christmas and the holiday season looming, you could tick some presents off your list, or line up your summer reading – all in one fell swoop!

To enter the competition all you need to do is opt to follow my blog. That means you will receive my latest blog postings directly into your email inbox. To do that you need to go to my website www.lizbyrski.com and enter your email in the “Follow blog by email” field at the foot of any webpage, and click the “follow me” button.

If you already follow my blog, then…

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