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Robert Fairhead
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Share my writing and blogging on http://TallAndTrue.com and podcasts at http://TallAndTrueShortReads.com. ❤️ #BeingADad #Dogs #Books #Writing #SydneySwans #VoiceToParliament #Sydney/#Gadigal 🚫 DMs (unless we know each other)
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Planning another #vanlife #roadtrip from #Sydney to #Augusta, WA for my aunt's birthday. Jet's staying home this time, with the family who looked after him during my dad-and-son road trip to Perth in 2023. Instead, my wife is joining me on the 9-10 day, 4434 km drive. Will we survive it? 🤔
Screenshot of the Google Map with the Sydney to Augusta road trip route and overnight stops.
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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How's Jet? Asleep against my leg! ❤️🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
My black lab Jet curled up on his mat with his leg against my leg.
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Huge THANKS to @writerscentreau.bsky.social's #FuriousFiction team for this month's challenge. I LOVED writing my story for your Game Show prompts! Will your judges love it, too? I'll wait and see! 🙏❤️ #writing #flashfiction #shortstories #writesky
Thank You, Your Story Has Been Received screen from the Writers' Centre's Furious Fiction submission page.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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I've just registered for a discounted Annual Pass on @notquitewrite.com for their quarterly #NotQuiteWritePrize #flashfiction challenges in 2026. Will I be Team Ed or Team Amanda for the story prompts? 🤔 #writers #writing #writesky #shortstories
Screenshot of the "Thank You! You have registered for the Note Quite Write Prize" screen on the podcast website.
November 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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It's the Australian Writers' Centre's November #FuriousFiction on the weekend. Facebook reminded me this morning of the November criteria from 2020. I drew on elements of autofiction to write, The Al-Rabie Hotel. ✍️ #writers #writing #shortstories #writesky www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/shor...
Screenshot of my November 2020 post with a photo of me sitting in the lobby and a business card of the Al-Rabie Hotel in Damascus and listing the brief for the challenge: The Story must take place at a hotel, include a photograph, and the words collar, gloomy, police, rhythm and sapphire.
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Looking forward to #FuriousFiction November this weekend. I wrote my first horror story for the November 2023 challenge, and and later narrated it for my Tall And True Short Reads podcast, A Knock at the Door. 😱 #writers #writing #horror #podcast www.tallandtrueshortreads.com/a-knock-at-t...
Screenshot of a Facebook timeline memories post about submitting my first horror story to the Australian Writers' Centre's monthly Furious Fiction writing challenge in November 2023.
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Ready for our bedtime walk around the block, Jet? 🙄🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
My black lab Jet legs and tail looking like he's walking while fast asleep on his mat.
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Jet's auditioning for the reboot of Lady and the Black Lab. (I don't have the heart to tell him it's the Tramp!) ❤️🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
My black lab Jet eating spaghetti from my hand.
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Latest instalment in my let #sleepingdogs lie series. ❤️🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
My black lab Jet curled up asleep on his mat on the wooden living room floor.
November 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Ha! Facebook reminded me today about my 2nd 1-guess #Wordle win in 2023. Which means I've had my current favourite starter word for 2 years! 😂 #WQuers
Screenshot of my 1 November 2023 Facebook post about my 2nd 1-guess Wordle win with my row of green squares.
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Ker-thunk, ker-thunk, ker-thunk on the roof, thump onto the balcony, and scritch, scritch, scritch along the back fence. Good morning, possum! 😂 #urbanwildlife #possums
A possum looking at me while balancing on the back fence gate between a tree and shed.
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Your comment about the moon reminded me of this brilliant cartoon by @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social (from his Facebook profile: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...). 😂
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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What a coincidence that on the same day that #JohnCleese celebrated his 86th birthday with a post, the Guardian posted on Facebook that "Sybil Fawlty" had passed away. ❤️ #RIP #PrunellaScales
Screenshot with reactions to my comments on Facebook about John Cleese's 86th and Prunella Scales' passing.
October 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Yes, can I help you, Jet? ❤️🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
My 14-year-old black lab Jet looking up at me hopefully from under my writing desk.
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Jeez, I hope no one featured flowers in their break the "show, don't tell" writing rule stories! 😬🥀
Screenshot from a NSW Rocks post on FB with photos of a rock with painted flowers on one side and on the other the words "Flowers don't tell, they show."
October 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Tada! I've written, edited and submitted my entry for @notquitewrite.com's October 2025 #NotQuiteWritePrize. Now begins the sweaty wait to see if I've caught the judges' eyes ... at the 9th attempt! 🤞🍀🐇 #writers #writesky #writing #flashfiction #shortstories
Screenshot of the SUBMITTED page from the Not Quite Write Prize website.
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Good grief, evening #audiobooks need #proofreading! 😱

PS. I'm only one chapter into Kaliane Bradley's 2024 debut novel, #TheMinistryOfTime, and I'm already loving it. ❤️

#books #writing #editing
Screenshot of the audiobook version of the The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley with a type in the Opening Credits, spelt "Openeing".
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Jet update: He is eating (and pooping!) normally, but he's still catching up on his sleep after our #roadtrip! ❤️🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
My black lab Jet asleep on the wooden living floor between a Turkish rug and sofa.
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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A much more settled night's sleep for Jet AND me, side-by-side on the living room floor. 😴🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
My black lab Jet on his mat beside the sofa base cushion I've laid on the floor with my blankets and pillow on the living room floor.
October 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Jet must have snaffled something disgusting on a walk, and he AND have been up throughout the night for TWO nights, so he's going on a chicken and rice and probiotic paste diet! 🙄🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
Strainer of rice, pot of boiled chicken, the probiotic dispenser for my black lab Jet sitting on the kitchen bench.
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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My favourite at #SculpturebytheSea #Bondi today, Rustle by Andrew Cullen. 👏👏👏 #art #sculpture #sea #lizard
Oversized sculpture of a lizard sitting on the cliff face above the sea near Bondi.
October 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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My review on the @bcf.australia website for their Quad Fold Chair, bought in #MountIsa during our #roadtrip and "The perfect chair for patting my dog", Jet! ❤️🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
A screenshot of my positive review with photos of me patting my black lab Jet and him resting his head on my lap.
October 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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An update on my #outback #roadtrip companion. Jet's happy he's home and is catching up on his sleep! ❤️🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts
My black lab Jet asleep on his mats on the floor beside a bookcase. My black lab Jet asleep on the wooden floor under a breakfast bar stool. My black lab Jet asleep on his outdoor trampoline bed.
October 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Stickers from most but not all of the places Jet and I stayed at or visited on our 7560 km round 5-week #van #roadtrip from #Sydney to #Uluru. 🚐 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts #ontheroad
Stickers on my van from the road trip with my black lab Jet.
October 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Jet's settled back to life and sleeping at home. ❤️🐶 #dogs #mydog #olddog #mydogposts #van #outback #roadtrip #sydney #uluru
My black lab Jet curled asleep on his mat in the bedroom at home.
October 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM