The Living Room: If you drop in to visit anyone, there’s a pretty strong possibility you’ll end up in their living room. Visitors to the Little House of Concrete are likely to find themselves seated around the table, probably with a glass of wine in hand, more than likely watching something from the DVD collection, if the conversation has turned away from films, television, current events or the state of the world in general.

The Kitchen: Some favourite recipes, plus discussion of issues relating to food...

Hughesy’s Office (The Command Bunker) is where I spend most of my waking hours. Since it houses the computer, my personal library and a substantial part of the CD/DVD collection, plus a comfortable armchair for reading and reflection, so this was where early content relating to computers, reading and music was stashed. Nowadays we have separate sites for Music and Books...

The Garden: From the time I moved into the Little House of Concrete we’ve gradually filled up the block with garden beds and other landscaping. Now that the process is finished and only needs ongoing maintenance and a touch of fine tuning, here’s how it happened.

The Courtyard: Our pleasant faux-rain-forest courtyard is an underused spot to relax and let your thoughts wander, so it’s an area ideally suited to developing fiction and telling yarns.

Our Big Back Yard: Heading outwards from the Little House of Concrete, we’re talking about things that happen here in Bowen, and around the rest of northern Queensland.

Further Afield: We try to get away every once in a while. Here’s what has happened when we’ve succeeded.

Over the Horizon: And, occasionally, we go a little further. Japan, for example...