About the author

Lyn Campbell lives in Canberra, Australia. She’s a single-parent with two boys, both of whom are far more intelligent, insightful and pithy than she. Lyn works full-time.

Lyn loves live theatre (Bell Shakespeare & David Williamson are her faves!), opera and cricket. She is the only person who listens to Radio National and Classic FM. She is a huge Paul Keating fan, sole subscriber to Crikey and sometimes writes in the third person.

She thinks bloggers are, generally, self indulgent tossers with nothing fresh, poignant or vaguely relevant to say – and thus, considers herself well qualified for the task.

Lyn suffers from an unnatural addiction to Greek yoghurt and habitually abuses her body with copious quantities of A-grade coffee. In fact, she could really go one right now…

# Interests and favourite stuff:
Lyn’s a wanker, basically. She enjoys galleries, museums and recitals. Creative writing. Hiking. Bed and breakfast trips. Cricket. Bantering ostentatiously with friends. Reading. Becoming intimately acquainted with as many quality Australian red wines as is respectably possible…

# Favourite music:
Lyn loves jazz (Etta James is her all time fave: ‘At Last’ *sigh*). Mendelssohn. Bach. Tallis. Choral music in general. Yo-Yo Ma. She is also acquainted with some more recent music, including Fergie, Crowded House, Garbage, Ben Lee, Missy Higgins and Madonna. She has an inexplicable soft spot for Nine Inch Nails… and Aussie Pub Rock. (ahhh, Khe Sanh)… and she’s still nursing a crush on Chrissy Amphlett… *coorr!*

# Favourite TV shows:
Anything on the ABC,  The Hallowmen, Media Watch, The Chaser, Black Books, West Wing, Family Guy, Frasier, Coupling, The Goons, The Young Ones, The Mighty Boosh, Black Adder… ‘I have a cunning plan…’ (and a penchant for English comedy!)… Addicted to documentaries (oh, the shame!).

# Favourite movies:
See my Top 5 Movies. Additionally, anything with Alan Rickman or Dame Judi Dench in it.  Monty Python (Holy Grail, Life of Brian). Enjoy Kubrick’s work too (except for Eyes Wide Shut!).

# Favourite books:
Everything by Ben Elton, Stephen Fry and Douglas Adams. Lyn thinks Mark Twain is brilliant. Eats, shoots and leaves… ‘They Call Me Naughty Lola’ (London Review of Books – screamingly funny read). Her all time fave book is ‘The Curious Incidence of the Dog in the Nighttime’(Mark Haddon). She reads lots of theological stuff too… John Main, Janet Morley, Spong et al…  Loved St. Benedict’s Toolbox too.