And then it was May. Beltane. May Day. Whatever floats your boat. You think about May and you think of things like this: Instead, we’re being treated to a surfeit of this: Honestly. The United Kingdom. The only place in the world where we have hosepipe bans and a drought in the ‘rainiest April since […]
A fleeting update. For those of you who aren’t aware, the Black Library is celebrating its 15th birthday with a new eShort every day for 15 days. Each little piece is around a thousand words in length and available for download for the cost of 79p a pop. My contribution to this, Blood Blessing (a […]
I’m tired. It’s been a week of ups and downs. This is therefore a bit… stream of consciousness. It started on a down with the death of the hard drive, as immortalised in my previous ‘Hard Drive Lament’ entry. It dragged me back, kicking and screaming, from my previously easily attainable February target. Let me […]
Re: title of today’s blog. That always used to make me laugh. In fact, I had a badge with it on. I also had a badge with a smug looking dog and the caption ‘Don’t Eat Yellow Snow’ as well, so draw your own conclusions. (Complete tangent: I chucked a few old CDs onto iTunes […]
Because, you know. French and whatever. Not So Small Anymore Son has spent the last week in France with the school. I only ever went on one trip with the school and that was the ski trip when I was in the second year. Or what they now call Year 8. I get confused by […]
…days, that is. Until I have a break from the Day Job for a couple of weeks. We’re not going on holiday or anything like that… mostly we’re staying here and getting some household things sorted out. There will be trips, no doubt. There are too many castles and bits of old Roman wall up […]
Am discovering just how nice it is to be able to do this. The despicably talented Jon Sullivan’s cover for the anthology that contains one of my stories went live today. And oh, it’s pretty. This anthology comes out in May 2012 and features four novella-length stories, including my Accursed Eternity story (featuring the Blood […]
But first, some music for no reason other than I’m really liking these guys at the moment. Catchy little number; nice bass, nice drums, good singer. Can’t ask for more than that. I think I’ve said before that I have a really eclectic playlist with everything from classics right up to heavy metal. I just […]
Busy. In an entirely good way. Well, mostly good anyway. First of all… latest position on the ongoing war with Sky. After a series of increasingly incompetent emails in which they repeatedly called me Miss Hawkins, I have made the decision to cancel my account. This was after they offered me Sky+HD for the third […]
I have to go back to work tomorrow. This sucks majorly, but I can’t really complain too much. I’ve had a wonderful eleven days free of stress and worry. No anxieties over patients slipping through the net, no worries about how fecking big the Meeting of Doom will be… of course, I effectively have two […]
