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This week I'm writing my holiday season pieces for BiblioBuffet. While I have review books I could talk about, what I really want to do is write about old favourites. Scintillating essays. Comfort reading. Prickly, brilliant novels. Non-fiction that is unforgettable. Any type of literature, in fact, as long as it first appeared in print a hundred years ago or earlier. Do you have any favourites you think I should include?

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Talking about BiblioBuffet (which i was, just a few minutes ago), my new piece is up. This fortnight you get an interview with Justina Robson and Marianne de Pierres.

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I will try to stop posting news after this. It's just that today is full of sequential small news bulletins. My current small bit of news is that I now have a Melbourne Cup Day celebration to enjoy. I'm joining my friends at Folk Dance Canberra and we're dancing The Black Nag and a bunch of our other favourite dances (I might put in a bid for Joc Batranesc, because the music has been swimming through my mind for days) and then we're lunching and we're placing our bids (in choc coins) and then I'm going back with friends from FDC and we're watching the Cup. And then I must work. Champagne-assisted work, but work.

I have a Cup hat, but I think I threw out my last pair of danceable shoes in France (years of illness take their toll and shoes age). If I have to, I shall dance in bare feet, but I might explore my cupboard and hope for something better.