It’s comin’ on the end of August Another summer’s promise almost gone And though I heard some wise man say That every dog will have his day He never mentioned that these dog days get so long… (The song, by the way, is ‘Waiting in the Weeds’ from the ‘Long Road Out of Eden’ album. […]
…and things will be better again. I’ve had a tough few weeks for one reason or another, all of which are entirely too dull to go into in the Blog-o-sphere. So a quick summation of what’s been happening, methinks! Watched the Olympics – the opening ceremony was deliciously mad and the music selection just brilliant. […]
I just finished watching Nina Conti‘s quite wonderful documentary about her life as a ventriloquist. I’ve long been in awe of the sheer talent and hours of practise ventriloquists have to put in to achieve their goal and for every Nina there must be a hundred whose attempts are not successful, but who still plug […]
This does start to ramble, so here is a helpful text-cut. Unless you come here via the direct link, in which case… sorry!
And relax. This weekend just gone was the third BLL event that I’ve had the pleasure of attending, but the first one I’ve attended from the ‘other side’. It was a whirlwind of activity, people, signings and near-hysterical laughter on Sunday, and a lot of things have faded out of my memory already. But here’s […]
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 […]
I don’t get out much. So to actually look ahead to Things I Am Doing This Year is quite startling. As an aside, whilst Google-searching for appropriate images to use for ‘Out and About’, I found this one. It worries me enormously. In a week’s time, we’re taking a short trip Down South to […]
In an uncharacteristic move away from form, a writing blog entry. This one’s on every writer’s favourite subject. Deadlines. Targets. Reaching the unreachable. That’s what a lot of this writing thing has been about for me. When I started writing, ages ago, I only ever wrote short stories. Due to the fact that when I’m […]
This has been a pretty hectic couple of weeks. With a member of staff down at work, the day job became almost insane. I don’t begrudge my colleague her time off at all. But it does mean that life gets insanely busy. But you know, them’s the breaks. It does mean that my flexi-time remains […]
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 […]
