Despite my heartfelt explanation on the Visitor's Page about why I can't answer e-mails, I'm still getting lots of requests for help with school assignments. I do understand. When a deadline is looming, the natural thing is to panic and ask for help. I do it myself when I'm filling in my tax return or trying to find my car in a carpark.

Unfortunately, though, I can't give individual help with school projects. If I did, I'd never get any books written. Instead, I've tried provide as much help as possible on this site. The Morris A-Z section on the Scrapbook page is chokka with the sort of author info that helps produce A+ assignments. Same with the About Morris page. Plus all my old G'days are stored and waiting for you to read through them and pull out juicy bits of author background and other top grade chunks of project fodder.

But still the desperate and pleading e-mails pour in. Which makes me think of two possibilities. Either people are coming to the site, going straight to the Visitor's Page and banging off an SOS e-mail without reading a word elsewhere. I do understand how this can happen. Panic can give us tunnel vision. Sometimes in carparks all I can see is the tunnel leading down to the basement, even when I'm standing right next to my car and the handbrake cable has just snapped and the car is about to roll over my foot.

The other possibility, I'm thinking, is that despite all my efforts so far my site just isn't providing all the information people need for projects. And that's why I've decided to start a new section this month called Frequently Asked Questions. As the name suggests, its a page where I'll answer the questions I'm most frequently asked by people doing projects. Whenever I get time I'll add extra questions and extra answers.

I hope this helps, Paul and Shannon and Kathleen and Justine and Linnie and all the other people who've recently asked me for help with projects. In return I ask only one thing. Next time you see me in a carpark, turn me round and point me towards the car with the plastic cane toad on the dash. Thanks.

Oo-roo and happy reading

12 November 2000