FICTION FRIDAY - Neighbours It started with a plastic bag full of oranges hung over the back fence. A new family had moved in, young couple with small kids. I thanked the wife when I saw her one afternoon as she pulled up after the school pick up run... #TheDrumAndPage #FictionFriday

A Continuation of Advent What is the thing in the centre of our heart we are waiting for? What acts as both anchor and sail in our lives? #TheDrumAndPage #ContinuousLineDrawing #SingleLineDrawin #StaedtlerPens #ArtlinePens

You're never too old to indulge in a spot of whimsy. Picked this dinosaur pen up at the chemist. Don't care if it doesn't really work. I like whimsy. Additional: one of the staff was fully decked out as Mrs Claus. It even said so on her name badge Brought a smile to a dark day #NeverTooOldForWhimsy

WHIMSY TIME: if someone made an Advent calendar for you, what would you want it to be? One type of thing. Some suggestions for what I would like: * pens * packets of chips * biscuits * books (novellas/comics/zines) * socks * tiny drawings from an artist * pressed flowers

I missed last week's #SundaySketch so here's a double edition #TheDrumAndPage #SundaySketch #SundaySideQuest #AYearOfSundaySketch

Advent - The Season of Waiting Felt pens on A5 Waiting involves patience, trust, faith, hope, love. #TheDrumAndPage #StaedltlerPens #ArtlinePens #SingleLineDrawing #ContinuousLineDrawing

Fiction Friday - Cereal Boxes There was a time, he remembered, when breakfast cereal boxes contained a surprise, a gift, a treat. Something a child searched for and cherished, showing it off to friends at school as a signifier of status... #TheDrumAndPage #FictionFriday #VeryShortStory

Snapdragons, or Hope Is A Colourful Flower Resembling A Candle Felt pen and coloured pencil on A5 I will shield my candlelight from the wind of the storm, and place one foot in front of the other into the pool of light on the ground.

Agapanthus - The Star of Bethlehem (a nickname given in Australia due to when it blooms in the summer approaching Christmas and its star-like flower, but it is not the true Star of Bethlehem plant) The Season of Advent is one of waiting. Waiting for salvation. Waiting for heaven to appear on earth.

On Sunday night I was at a gig at the Manning Bar at Sydney Uni, and they have a graffiti tunnel near the Footbridge Theatre. So on the way home I stopped in and added my (temporary piece). #TheDrumAndPage #ContinuousLineDrawing #Rose #FlowerArt #Graffiti

FICTION FRIDAY treading water the kettle will boil as it is designed to do and i will make my tea the same way i have always made it: strong, letting it draw for a while, milk and two sugars. getting dressed for work and putting on my shoes left sock, right sock...

Self-Portrait is S.H.I.T. (Subpar. Hopeless. Inadequate. Terrible.) Brush Pen and Felt Marker #TheDrumAndPage

This song broke me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGub...

Jacaranda Flower #TheDrumAndPage #SundaySketch #SundaySideQuest #AYearOfSundaySketch

A legendary track from hubris. Such a beautiful live version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-X1...

Another Time, Another Place, Another Opportunity To Be Lost and Forgotten Felt Pens on A5 #TheDrumAndPage #ContinuousLineDrawing #StaedtlerPens #ArtlinePens

FICTION FRIDAY Bellbirds I keep the window down when I drive along the main road past the state forest and listen for the bellbirds. They are the sound of rain in the treetops on a clear day. I don’t know what they look like. I could look it up but I prefer the mystery...

Oh hai! Let's pray.

Remember blowing ink spots all over the page and getting headspins? Yeah, I did that on the weekend and used the shape as the basis for a #ContinuousLineDrawing And yes, lilies only have 5 petals, not 6 (artistic licence, ok) Ink, felt pen and coloured pencil on A5 #TheDrumAndPage #SingleLineDrawing

Lego Legs What is "legs" in your language? #TheDrumAndPage #SundaySketch #SundaySideQuest #AYearOfSundaySketch

Car Quote Of The Day "Who's more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?" Yeah, it's #ParkRun day.

The ancient Greeks had augers who read the signs of bird flight or the intestines of animals as harbingers of good or evil. I do the same except I determine the future signsof the day by whether or not I get my toe caught in my underwear trying to put it on.

FICTION FRIDAY The Prophet I met a prophet in the freezer aisle at Woolies yesterday. He was reading the back of the box of frozen fish and I saw in his green shopping basket a packet of heat-in-the-oven dinner rolls. Dinner for one? I asked. #TheDrumAndPage #FictionFriday #VeryShortStory

Rose Pentel Dude Brush Pen and Jasart Coloured Pencils What is it about the rose that is the central symbols in western literature? #TheDrumAndPage #PentelFudeBrushPen #JasartColouredPencils #SingleLineDrawing #FlowerArt #ContinuousLineDrawing

Living Between The Cracks #TheDrumAndPage #SundaySketch #SundaySideQuest #AYearOfSundaySketch

Remember that time you made perfect mashed potatoes and how you've been chasing that high ever since. Keep pursuing, my friend. #TheDrumAndPage

Pulled everything out of my school pencil case to look for something, found it, then arranged everything in an aesthetically pleasing way. Not featured are all of my whiteboard markers that live on my desk at school. Teachers, show me your pencil cases. #TheDrumAndPage

FICTION FRIDAY - Cheese Toasties The linen press was emptied of all the beach towels and stacked on top of the dining room table by two enthusiastic cubby house builders. The chairs were pulled out to make room under the table... #TheDrumAndPage #FictionFriday #VeryShortStory

A lovely start to my day.

Paper Daisy Felt pen and coloured pencil on A5 #TheDrumAndPage #ArtlinePens #SingleLineDrawing #FlowerArt #ContinuousLineDrawing

The graffiti tunnel at Sydney Uni. Next time I swing through here I'm bringing some markers and will put up a single line drawing on the wall. #TheDrumAndPage #ContinuousLineDrawing #SingleLineDrawing

FICTION FRIDAY Turning Tides As the turning of the tide reached its peak he watched the water in its pace eat away at the small wall of sand carving into it, calving chunks of sand that tumbled into the turbulent wash and dissolved... #TheDrumAndPage #FictionFriday #VeryShortStory

I received this absolutely gorgeous gift from my sister and my niece's today. They are learning embroidery (I assume to impress Mr. Darcy) and used my drawings as a template. I am totally chuffed & considering having it properly framed. Thank you S and K and @simplymrsbest

I have a small whiteboard to use with the group I exercise with and I'd left it in the car. So today, we have Car Quote Of The Day. "I have two words for you: therapy." Bonus points if you can name the movie it is from. #TheDrumAndPage #CarQuoteOfTheDay

Psalm 23 Inspired by the work of @sacrocubism The Scriptures point to One who knows and cares, who seeks the lost sheep, cares for them, has compassion and is deeply moved for the sheep. I'd like to work on my own sacred iconography but as pointillism pieces. #TheDrumAndPage #SundaySketch

Every house needs an ice cream container of miscellaneous buttons. The posh ones have glass jars of buttons. They will come in handy during the coming apocalypse when we discard notes and coins for bartering buttons. #TheDrumAndPage

FICTION FRIDAY just out of frame Aaron checked the barbeque hotplate was off, waved his hand over it and felt the heat it retained and headed to the outdoor table with a platter of sausages, steaks, and chicken kebabs... #TheDrumAndPage #FictionFriday #VeryShortStory

Yesterday @ajebec posted a new batch of portable graffiti in the local area. I knew where it was, grabbed the car keys and went on an impromptu excursion in the rain to snaffle a piece (I left other pieces behind to be snaffled up). Currently it's on the fridge but I'll repost it somewhere else soon

On a lovely serendipitous day, Love Your Bookshop Day, @zoegaet and @estee.estee launched their new picture book, Being Indy (@westwordschildrens) It is a remarkable story of helping children know who they are and what they can become when they understand the power of their identity.

Teacher Gothic It's like the picture of Dorian Gray. #TheDrumAndPage

The Position of Contemplation During the Process of Metabolic Transmigration #TheDrumAndPage #SundaySketch #SundaySideQuest #AYearOfSundaySketch

FICTION FRIDAY - drought It has slipped into your pockets and the grit caught under your fingernails causes you to notice the lawn is looking a bit brown and even though you start to give it attention and turn the sprinkler on with increasing frequency... #FictionFriday

Most people want to skip the story to get to the recipe while I am looking for a recipe to insert into a story. #WritingLife

I'm down for a heist. Nothing fancy. Maybe taking down a Chubby Buns for a fiesta, then a Krispy Kreme store for dessert, washed down by the contents of a Slushee machine from 7-11. Who's in?

As a new-ish writer, the top is proof of writing. The bottom is the usual state of affairs. In between is Schrodinger's Cat; your submission is neither alive nor dead. You're anticipating the death but hoping for Resurrection Sunday.

You know you're a teacher when a parent arrives for Parent Teacher Interviews and they're chewing gum and it takes EVERY OUNCE OF CONTROL not to tell the parent to put the gum in the bin. #TeacherLife

patience whilst plotting points still a very long way to go #TheDrumAndPage #PointillismArt

belief without hope Then Peter called to him, “Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water.” Matthew 14:28 #TheDrumAndPage #SundaySketch #SundaySideQuest #AYearOfSundaySketch

tiny green insect is tiny which is to say that small things can have great impact. a solution has presented itself for a work in progress that opens up new ways of approaching the narrative this totally counts as writing today because I wrote it down #TheDrumAndPage #ThisWritingLife

FICTION FRIDAY Nothingness Two empty mugs sit on the kitchen table. One has the teabag still inside drawing up the dregs to the string and into the cardboard label. The other has a teaspoon beside it. A knife rests on a side plate, smeared with Vegemite... #FictionFriday