by Angela Pickett | Dec 31, 2016 | Blog Posts - Pre 2024
A quiet Christmas has provided a good opportunity to sit back and think about the year that was and plan for 2017. In the days since Christmas, we’ve watched the news covering the deaths of icons like George Michael, Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds,...
by Angela Pickett | Dec 8, 2016 | Blog Posts - Pre 2024
A month ago, I got up before 6, made a cup of tea and began writing a book. I’d decided that after thinking about a book on my visits to Vietnam between 2003 and this year, including the 3.5 years we lived there, that the National Novel Writing Month –...
by Angela Pickett | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog Posts - Pre 2024
A couple of months ago, we got the keys to our new house in Tanunda. It all happened quite quickly and two months after looking at this property (the weekend after we got back from Vietnam) we had our very own place after renting for the past 2.5 years. We spent a few...
by Angela Pickett | Sep 18, 2016 | Blog Posts - Pre 2024
Last week I published my first blog post in 9 months. I use the word published because I’d actually written it 2 weeks ago when I’d decided I really did want to write again. But I procrastinated for a fortnight because I didn’t have time to sit and...
by Angela Pickett | Sep 10, 2016 | Blog Posts - Pre 2024
I cannot believe I haven’t written since last year. That said, I’m not sure where the first two-thirds of this year disappeared. Writing a blog post about all that has happened might seem like a whole lot of excuses – so instead, here’s a month...
by Angela Pickett | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog Posts - Pre 2024
So today is apparently Independent’s Day. A day to celebrate the work done by people like me, working alone in their spare rooms, at the kitchen table and at cafes around the world. Perhaps simply because I’ve started a business, it seems like there are so...
