Errantry

Tanaudel is Kathleen and, in order of how they pay for themselves: a lawyer, translator, writer, illustrator and Queenslander.

She grew up on a cattle station in western Queensland and having survived two years at boarding school and an excessively long time in a residential college is now based in an old inner suburb of Brisbane, in a beautiful quiet wooden house build on the basic principal of a wildlife corridor, with three pleasant housemates all of whom have surprisingly normal sleeping patterns. The dog doesn’t.

She thinks that, as cities go, Brisbane isn’t too bad.

Every day she reads books and the Bible and writes at least 100 words and draws. She used to learn the guitar and the bagpipes, as well, but neither instrument is compatible with a wooden-houseful of people who go to bed early.

She thinks the ideal form of government is a benevolent dictatorship, but the least horrible form is a democracy, and can recall a humourous anecdote for most situations.

She practices logic on her friends, and says “serviette” instead of “napkin”, “silverware” instead of “cutlery”. She used to spell “colour” “coulour”.

She has a penchant for textiles, books with printed bindings, letterpress type, antique tins, bird ornaments, graphic novels, and orange art-deco crockery. She thinks there should be nothing in a house that isn’t known to be useful, believed to be beautiful or demonstrated not to collect dust.

She used to live online at the old Errantry and is still doing some removal work to bring all the old links across. She keeps some pictures and photos on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/tanaudel.