Spent the weekend freezing my toes off in Canberra — almost literally! Took a couple of hours to get circulation back in the little buggers after leaving Donna’s place this morning. Donna’s house is warm and toasty on the inside but her front yard is practically Antarctic! Anyway, we went down yesterday for a birthday lunch with Kaaron and her family, then off to a gorgeous boutique bookshop in Manuka called Paperchain for the launch of Nicole Murphy’s debut novel Secret Ones.
Nicole Murphy, Donna Hanson & Maxine Macarthur
CSFG members whose names I really ought to know by now
Kaaron Warren & Matthew Farrer
Then we went back to Nicole’s place to eat stuff and gossip
Matt, Donna & James
Gillian Pollack, listening to Rob’s stories with great suspicion
I saw something in Paperchain that afternoon that was so utterly awesome, my heart almost stopped beating. I couldn’t stop thinking about it all night so the next day we drove back to the store and I scored myself the best birthday present evah! OK, so my birthday’s not actually until September but I seriously couldn’t wait that long.
A Tintin sculpture made of resin & ceramic, 35cms high. And yes, it cost a truckload of money and no I don’t give a damn.
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Awesome Tintin sculpture! (Even though when I first saw the pic, I hadn’t fully scrolled down the page, so the bottom part of the photo was cut off and it looked rather like Tintin was sitting on a toilet.)
James say “Typically spending nothing on maintenance!”
screw maintenance! Doors, stoves and pot belly stoves are so boring.
you are so gross!
What? Even Tintin needs to poo. 🙂 (Not that we need a statue of that…)
Are there any Australian sf writers that you aren’t friends with? 🙂
The Tintin sculpture is indeed awesome.
LMAO
I knew it! I knew you’d get it! 🙂
And deservedly so – it is utterly FABULOUS.
I have no willpower…
congratulations on a successful launch. I hope the books sell well.
Thanks Cat. And thanks for the lovely pics. They’re up on the HarperVoyager site now – with credit 🙂
http://voyageronline.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/photos-from-the-secret-ones-launch/
yay!
Lovely to see so many there.
I don’t think Gillian is listening to Rob with great suspicion. I know that look, I’ve been on the receiving end of it. It means she listening hard and is about to ask him a lot of penetrating questions.
Nice Tintin. I”d like one of those for our god shelf.