I’ve always liked autumn. It makes me think of my mother. My mother used to create oil paintings. Almost invariably, they were scenes of mountains, rivers and trees. Mum liked these things and she enjoyed putting them onto canvas. It was always a scene of a river leading off into a lake with a mountain […]
Quite literally in this instance. I have a shiny copy of Treacheries of the Space Marines to give away to someone. As ever, the prize will go to anybody who makes me laugh. I thought about a competition for a while and here you go, something topical. The Primarch Olympics. Which Primarch would be a […]
So I’ve not blogged much for a while. Actually, I’ve not done a lot of anything for a while. This is down to a number of reasons, entirely too plentiful and yet outstandingly dull to go into detail about here. So instead, the weather. Seeing as that and 50 Shades of Grey are the only […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…and they’ll take the damned globe. Who am I talking about, you wonder? Where will this rant lead? Politicians, perhaps? They’re notorious for such behaviour. How about book reviewers, or film critics, or the people who complain that the shade of blue on the in-game rendering of Grits McLargehuge the Valiant Warrior’s armour in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
