Oh man, I’m so excited to have Baratunde on the podcast. I asked him years ago, and assume he thought I was just some punter. Then I was on the Bugle with him, (thereby proving exactly what kind of punter I am).
This was such a great conversation; Baratunde’s been a professional communicator on complex issues for so long I wa...
2023-02-15 01:45:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Topic: Writers Meeting + Workshop
Time: Feb 13, 2023 08:30 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Link to Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89380072615
Some time conversions
2023-02-12 19:51:34 +0000 UTC
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Hallo!
This week’s writers meeting will be tomorrow at 8.30am Sydney Time. Which will be Sunday Arvo/eve for the U.K. & US people.
I’ll be running the normal writers meeting for an hour followed by a...
2023-02-12 05:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Alice Rebekah Fraser is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Tea With Alice Salon 95
Time: Feb 9, 2023 11:00 AM Auckland, Wellington
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89236818842
Meeti...
2023-02-08 22:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Feeling a lot like this year so far has been strangely long and full of one thing after the other.
Trying to carve out the time to write my solo show, Twist is proving trickier than I’d like it to be, but tickets for Adelaide and Melbourne are now on sale, and I’m bouncing emails back and forth to sort out my edinburgh venue (and acco...
2023-02-07 01:42:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon Writers Meeting
Time: Jan 29, 2023 08:00 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84263925830?pwd=VXpiMTMyOWRnYkNPRm54KzZ2cXdJdz09
2023-01-28 09:03:54 +0000 UTC
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Hallo, it’s been a week of family funeral festivities and squishing work in round, and/so I’ve come down with some sort of throat. Which is why I’ve put scheduling this week’s salon off until the last minute, and also the first available minute of this week.
Salon is tomorrow morning Saturday 8am Sydney time,
This update brought to you by my new plan of getting people to help me keep my shit together. Thanks due to Amy Carver.
Also, as the ole social media platforms have a tizzy, it’s nice to have this be a place where I can keep you updated on what I’m up to. I’ll probably update on Thursdays or Fridays going forward, but here’s the u...
2023-01-24 02:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Meeting link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89735313703
If you’ve ever wished me pain, you might want to know that last evening playing with her cousins, my baby stacked it down some stairs (overexcited, running with a book) and knocked her little tooth out.
I’ve experienced some real proper shame and guilt in my life before, but seeing her little tic-tac-tooth lying on her tongue in a poo...
2023-01-21 05:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1, Season 2 of Tea With Alice is now out, with guest, screenwriter, director and new TWA producer, Amy Brown Carver.
We talked about divorce parties, sticking by your principles or letting your principles change with you, and how to figure out what makes you happy.
Link is here: 2023-01-17 02:04:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a lovely chill birthday weekend, and my twin is here for a few days, which is a lovely thing.
I have also got a big announcement to make, for a certain quantity of big, and which won’t be an announcement if you’re a Salon regular, and that’s Tea With Alice Season Two has launched!
I am excited to get back on the tea hors...
2023-01-10 01:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As always:
Happy new year, if you’re the kind of person who believes in happiness!
I had intended to make some resolutions, but time got away from me. Generally, I’ve now sorted out childcare enough that taking time to go for some walks or runs is probably back on the table, and that’s a good thing. Also I should get a haircut, but failing to ...
2023-01-03 00:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post
ETA: family emergency, no salon today
I’m now offering one on ones again, this time as paid one offs. One-on-one-one-offs. As you might know, I loved having regular individual conversations with Patreonites as one of the level perks, but it got to be too much time to manage with my other commitments, so I replaced them with t...
2022-12-29 00:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
You know that feeling where you think there’s another step, but you have hit the level ground, so for one stride, you’re trying to walk through the ground?
Yesterday I sent through some ideas for this week’s gargle stories through to the Gargle WhatsApp Group (me, Good Luck Christopher and Ped the editor), and got a “this...
2022-12-27 09:07:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In the bleak midwinter, Yule / Christmas / light festivals / Hanukkah (I’ll use Christmas as a shorthand for winter solstice fest) serves as a guide-light/lamp-post* to draw our anticipation and hope for the future towards the black hole of the year and through into the second half of the gloom with its dawn on the horizon and the possibility ...
2022-12-25 01:19:21 +0000 UTC View Post
ETA: Sorry for the late start, thank-you all for coming! It's still running for about another 40 mins.
I’ll have a loose relaxed writers meeting at 9am on Monday, Sydney time, which will be Christmas Day evening U.K. and US time for anyone who wants to take an hour out of their day or put an hour into their day ...
2022-12-24 08:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo!
Tea With Alice Salon 89
Time: Dec 20, 2022 08:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88933297074
I’m always a bit nonplussed when people ask what my favourite thing is. Favourite colour, book, song. I mean, probably my reaction ought to be to think it’s not that deep and just pick one I like. But instead it induces a mildly resentful identity spiral.
I assume that by asking, you think that my answer will be meaningful; t...
2022-12-18 23:58:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo!
Slightly awkwardly placed for a writers meeting this weekend, so I’m going to cut the cake to make it 7.30 Monday morning Sydney time, which is still Sunday for ye U.K. and U.S writers.
The link is here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89284517951 2022-12-18 03:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo! This week’s salons and time-zone conversions are below. All levels welcome.
As always
Salon Things
Christmas is approaching, and for me this is the season of wondering how much to bother about Christmas.
I wonder how much other people have this question; I imagine if you’re from a family for whom Christmas is a big deal, you probably have a normal version of Christmas.
As a bit of a Christmas outsider (perhaps the TRUE MEANIN...
2022-12-14 04:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Or Salon B, or the Night Salon…
Tea With Alice Salon 86
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89189763154
This morning’s salon (in 40 mins) will be here
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83792629245
and will be open to all levels!
Xx
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2022-12-07 20:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I had almost hit my limit, and so decided to night-wean LaserFraser. So as well as not juicing myself three or four times in the middle of the night I’m also not waking up three or four times in the middle of the night.
I feel incredible. I’ve now had four straight nights of eight hours of sleep, after 13 months of never getting more ...
2022-12-06 07:34:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I saw a really interesting blog by somebody replying to a subscriber of theirs who felt disillusioned that they hadn’t been sharing as much of their life as usual during a stressful/traumatic time.
I thought that was really interesting, because negotiating how much we’re willing to share with the world when things are good and when th...
2022-12-05 01:41:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all.
Writer’s meeting for this week will be at 9.30am Monday, Sydney time.
The Link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84059124180
2022-11-27 07:21:40 +0000 UTC
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