Fiction

Possums playing tag in the roofspace, fruit bats circling overhead at dusk, friendly spiders allowed to live in the shower because they gobble up the baddies, palm trees posing against blue blue sky. Pinch me.
Rosy sent me away with some holiday reading - Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, a novel set 60 years back in the dusty outback - where a girl from Ealing sets out to create a bustling community from a few scattered homesteads. A period piece. At least that's what I thought until I sat down this evening and watched the first episode of "A Farmer Wants A Wife" a matchmaking TV series where six lucky stockmen (and one woman) from isolated outposts each invite three city chicks or chaps to try out as prospective life partners. So far we have only seen episodes of sheep handling, rabbit trapping and tractor washing - but enough to illustrate to scale of the landscape and make me wonder at the power of the sun and the vastness of the blue blue sky.