The Goddess In Blue Gumboots will be free to download till the end of October.

Next week I should have finished Creating Characters for Fiction Writers which will be free to download soon. When I've formatted it well enough for eBook distribution.

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My latest novel The Goddess in Blue Gumboots is now available.
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The Goddess in Blue Gumboots by Ruth Punton

It is six years since I last posted but here I am again to reintroduce my novel The Goddess in Blue Gumboots which is now available as an eBook though Smashwords.com

 This is an Australian feminist fantasy novel.

In the glorious southwest bush region of Western Australia neighbouring women take the world by storm. Meet Ana, atheistic paediatrician turned protea grower, Elsie, a fallen RC prostitute turned millionaire, Teresa, a practising RC, gossipy dairy farmer who would rather be a ballet dancer, Jane, a convicted murderer and meditative painter who wanted to be a Buddhist nun, Sophia, a zoologist researching the mating habits of ring-tailed possums and an foul-mouthed, recalcitrant, abused twelve-year old genius who knits.

 Mix them up, add Arua, the Goddess of Women in a bright-white light on a rainbow, and what does the world get? A social phenomenon? A new religion? A political movement? A safe haven? A war? Take your choice.

Thoughts on Daylight Saving

Now that Daylight Saving has finished the days seem so much shorter. But they are same length regardless. One of my neighbours said she rides her bike every morning but stops when Daylight Saving comes in. My first response is ‘Ignore Daylight Saving. So if we ignore Daylight Saving why bother having it all.

I still undecided on what I’ll vote in the referendum. When in the city I could see the advantages to business dealing with the Eastern States. In the bush I hated the long hot days and longed for the bushfire-orange sun to sink behind the scorched hills. Now at the beach I go for a swim late afternoon and my body is refreshed and cooled before the sun even sinks.

Time is a human construct after all. Perhaps we would be better off arranging our lives around the rising and setting of the sun. Imagine the chaos and what about our TV programs...are we civilised or what?

Having written this spiel has helped me decide. I shall voted against Daylight Saving, help the farmers and ignore mechanical time apart from The Bill and Gardening Australia.

A 365-day calendar based on the moon’s cycles commenced about 4236 B.C. when it was noted that Sirius rose next to the sun every 365 days. in Iraq, a year of 12 alternating 29-day and 30-day lunar months was observed before 2000 B.C., giving a 354-day year. Obelisks were built as early as 3500 B.C. Their moving shadows formed a kind of sundial. Sundials came into use around 1500 B.C. to measure hours by dividing a day into 10 parts plus two twilight hours twice a day. Water clocks didn’t depend on the observation of celestial bodies. The Egyptians- 1500 B.C., then the Greeks - 325 B.C. used vessels allowing water to drip into or out of a small hole at a fairly constant rate. By the 10th Century, several types of pocket sundials were used.
One English model identified tides. By the14th century, large mechanical clocks appear Italian cities and so on.

Last night I watched Compass on the ABC and started rethinking god (aka religion). For years I called myself agnostic and then atheist. After last night I understood the difference. I’m probably an agnostic after all.
Agnostic means ‘everything is unknowable’ and not ‘I don’t know’ as I previously thought. Atheism says ‘there is no god’ but the whole concept is unknowable really. So much for that.
‘It’s all lies, damned lies and statistics’. This quote I am familiar with but hadn’t realised it’s from Mark Twain. Just read it in this awful novel yesterday.
Since my last Photoshop on Thursday I’ve put my head down and completed all my assignments so I can work on Create & Craft Tall Stories for the rest of the .Do you like my latest Photoshop एफ्फोर्ट?

Wednesday 25 March 2009

Today I'm busy completing the assignment on interweaving photo strips before tomorrow's Photoshop class as well as trying to play with my camera's setting so I can vary from the auto mode without disastrous effects.

I'm also trying to finish off my creative writing text Create and Craft Tall Stories on fiction writing as the Library are happy for me to take another course there when I'm organised. If I can organise myself sufficiently I'd like to teach a course online and have been investigating the best way.