Category Archives: Random
Avaunt, with floppy hat
… or exit stage right, or something.
Yes, finally, last Tuesday I graduated. The PhD whinge shall never be heard again.
It was a good night. Flowers from Brain arrived just before we left home for QPAC. My family
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The unquiet quiet
Yes, this place has been very quiet … still.
Sorry.
In my defence, I’ve been finishing Midnight and Moonshine with Lisa.
We’ve sent it to Russ the Publisher.
Now it’s back to a kind of normality.
A kind.
In apology, I offer
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Utterly Exquisite
Kirsty Mitchell‘s series of Wonderland photos, dedicated to her mum, are utterly and completely beautiful. Go here.
In fact, they’re very much in tune with the Midnight and Moonshine stories!
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From the pen of La Jennings
The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales gets the Dalek treament.
And over here, Kathleen chats about fairy tales.
Back to the word mines – the deadline, she doth approach.
24Hr Book: The Autopsy
Why the f&%k can't writers follow the style sheet??
And so, a week after the action I can finally process what happened. The fact that I’m bed-ridden with the Mother of All Flus, which has
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In which North Yorkshire refuses to feed us
And so, after arriving at an expensive B&B which was not prepared for us (more of that tomorrow), we set off at 6.00 to try and find dinner. We do not smell bad, we look normal’ish and we have money.
The Italian restaurant in a nearby village, which had 8 free and empty tables, could not possibly fit us in until
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Happiness is …
… Being in Hay-on-Wye for the very first time :-).
At long last …
… for many years I have yearned for a pair of Docs.
For the last couple of years, I have covetted those belonging to the Duchess of Darkness, Kirstyn McDermott.
I finally got a pair.
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In which there are critters …
Over at Shared Worlds, a group of us were give the chance to ‘choose our critter’ and write a little history for it. I made up Cloud-Bibbles, Lavie Tidhar introduces the world to Zoltar and Neil Gaiman’s Shadder
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What I did on my holidays, Or ten things Skyrim has revealed about me
The background to this whole problem is as follows: I’m not a gamer. Have no interest in games. Have never played computer games. My Significant Other tried (unsuccessfully) to get me to play Morrowind. Not one to give
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