By Kerry-Anne on December 31, 2009
I picked this up on Nafisa’s blog a couple of days ago, and thought it would make for a rather nice summing-up of 2009. If you like questionnaire-type thingies and reviewing the year nostalgically, then do repost the questions on your own blog. Along with your own answers. Obviously.
1. What did you do in 2009 [...]
Posted in Life | Tagged lessons, q&a, year in review
By Kerry-Anne on September 3, 2009
Yes, that’s right. It’s a book about words. Much like a dictionary. (See, Mrs Fanner? I wasn’t kidding back in Std 2 when I told you that I liked to read dictionaries for fun.)
And before you think, “Oh my goodness how boring why would anyone want to read a book about words”, let me remind [...]
Posted in Books | Tagged language, review
By Kerry-Anne on January 11, 2009
Today is a sad anniversary for me. It’s been exactly one year since my older brother, Paul Sharpe, passed away, after suffering a heart attack at his home in Sydney, Australia. He was only 43. I still miss him tremendously, and think about him very often.
Although I’ve had plenty of good experiences and gotten to [...]
Posted in Life
By Kerry-Anne on January 10, 2009
So we had fun today.
I got up this morning at about 9, quite a bit later than intended, wandered through to my office, gazed lazily out the window, wondered why the pool appeared to have a cover on it when we don’t have a cover, looked a little harder and OMG WHERE HAS ALL THE [...]
Posted in Humour | Tagged pool, summer
By Kerry-Anne on September 16, 2008
There are certain grammar, spelling and punctuation mistakes that I see over and over again, both in the course of my editing work and just generally, out in the wild. In the interests of making the world (and the web) a better place, I’ve decided to run a series of posts on these common – [...]
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By Kerry-Anne on August 30, 2008
Having been on a bit of a weight-loss drive for the past few months, I can relate to this poor little thing. He is a bit tubby. Might want to consider a few extra turns in the wheel to work off that biscuit.
more animals
Posted in Humour | Tagged Humour, lolcats
By Kerry-Anne on August 30, 2008
Earlier in the week I posted the following thread to a business forum to which I belong. The members of this particular forum are largely over 35, and self-employed or running small businesses. There’s a fair amount of negativity about the country and economy hanging around at the moment, and I thought it might be [...]
Posted in Life | Tagged business, lessons, photomatt, wordpress
