Today I saw a beautiful Siamese cat outside a house on a corner (former old shop converted to a home). I don't like to see cats near...

On one side of my house I have a short-term Airbnb rental. The house on the other side is rented to students. The bins for both houses,...

Things that excited me as a child: the woolly mammoth, giant clams, giant squid, spontaneous human combustion, mind reading, invisible...

When I lived in Paris, I became friendly with an elderly neighbour. Her name was Madame Colombo and she was lonely. Every few days she...

I took Freckles to the vet this afternoon and narrowly avoided having to put one of my kidneys on Facebook Marketplace. Don’t worry,...

While I was staying with my mother, I noticed she kept rubbing her left eye. My sister Jocelyn noticed that the eyelid was red and...

I was present on the day the deeds for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park were handed back to the Anangu people in 1985. The handback of this...

Australia will soon hold a referendum (October 14) on a change to the Constitution that would give First Nations peoples here an advisory...

The woman drinking coffee with her friend at the next table has a stepson who is about to propose to his girlfriend. They're on holiday...

May 12, 2022 Do you want to know how I write? Here I tell you all about it on the Dymocks Book Blog.

Who Is Ricky Bird? I’ll tell you who she is. Follow the below the image. https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/p/The-Improbable-Life-of-Ric...

April 27, 2022

April 22, 2022 Yesterday, I was crossing a street, a side street that forks off a busy road. I was with my friend so I probably wasn’t...

April 1, 2022 ‘The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird’ will be published on May 4th. Just look at these babies!

February 21, 2022 ‘The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird’ has just been sent to the printers. I called my mother and read out the dedication....

February 16, 2022 My new book ‘The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird’ will be published here by Simon & Schuster on May 4. That’s only two...

February 10, 2022 Just now I was standing at the front window when a young man of about 18 or so walked up my steps in a swift, familiar...

February 3, 2022 When I moved to Europe (France and Britain), I was surprised to learn that many of the people I met had been set up...

January 25, 2022 When I was 9 years old, a girl in my class told me a terrifying scientific fact. If you touched your belly button after...

December 13, 2021 For the past few days I have been feeling burdened and pessimistic, overwhelmed and dull. As if I was moving through...