This blog’s team of
underpaid writers is busier than
Santa’s sweated helpers
slaving away in
appalling work conditions for the mad
Christmas rush. Coming your way , dear readers , is a
feast of goodies
. More
fabulous artwork of Bucklee Bell
in Chiangmai ; a frothy Darwin drinking
memoir ; an horrific
Timor Leste story ;
exclusive , illustrated World War l tales ; book reviews ; increased coverage of Queensland politics ; a scary trip inside Bleak House ; the impact on
Melbourne real
estate values when
Pete Steedman moves into suburbia ;
Peter Burleigh specials ; items about art , collecting , journalism, newspapers , postcards , the Great Barrier Reef , climate change , shipping, unions , Curlews , crocodiles , tycoons, crooks , Gnus and an occasional dash of spoof.