I’m on an outing with our Probus club. We are going to meet Jane Austen, her family and her literary characters. We are attending a Regency Ball and dinner and we are all suitably dressed in our regency finery. Various scenes from her novels are acted out for us. Various…

The Lord of the Manor has died and he is lying in state with great pomp and ceremony. There is a feeling of a great sense of tradition behind it but it also feels a bit passe. I am witnessing the dream both as the Lord of the Manor and…

I have been commissioned to paint Kerry’s portrait (bus driver colleague, who is dying of cancer) for the Archibald Prize. I plan to paint her in her hospital bed, ravaged by cancer, plus an image of her standing beside the bed in her bus driver’s uniform and another image of…

Penny and I are visiting a luxury spa. We meet some of the other guests; a lesbian couple and a young man, who is wearing a hoodie, so we cannot see his face. The five of us are sitting on the deck, beside the swimming pool, chatting amongst ourselves. The…

I am visiting the fictional farming community of Kiewarra (“The Dry” by Jane Harper, Pan MacMillan; The movie is directed by Robert Connolly). The community is struggling with a 2 year long drought and now local farmer Luke Hadler appears to have murdered his wife and son and shot himself.…

I started to give birth and could see the baby crowning. I went to the toilet and gave birth there. When I looked into the toilet I’d given birth to two dog skulls. I called my mother in and she confirmed they were dog skulls and flushed them away.

A couple of nights ago I was dreaming that my best friends husband had passed away. I don’t know the details of how he passed, I just know he is gone. I have this overwhelming sense of sadness and grief for my best friend as she has a toddler and…