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No More of This on Sundays…
For years, I’ve been getting the Independent on Sunday every week. I thought it was a pretty good paper, with an self-proclaimed independent slant on the news, and no fluff. However, it’s been going downhill for quite a while now, with less news coverage and more fashion, more celebrity garbage and more alarmist [...]
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Urghhh…
Damm my wobbly health…
Friday morning I woke up with a migraine which lasted most of the day, with attendant nausea and retching.
Yesterday I was feeling OK, except for a very sore throat – which I put down to getting some stomach acid spray up the back of my throat during my migraine episode. It [...]
Update…
OK, not posted anything for quite a while. I’ve been hugely busy, getting on with the Elfin Diary and getting my Life on Mars fansite off the ground. It’s been live for just over a week now and is already getting quite a respectable number of hits. There’s lots I want to be [...]
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2008 Ephemeris now out
Raphaels Ephemeris for next year is now published. It’s got all the usual tables and information, plus a nice black cover.
And, um, that’s about it….
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How Not To Write…
From the latest Ansible, more examples of bad writing:
Sound Effects Dept (Again) `The Archivist tugged a handkerchief from her sleeve and blew her nose, noisily and at length. Moon could hear the snot rattling through her system like an old boiler filled with air.’ (Jonathan Barnes, The Somnambulist, 2007)
Dept of Wicked Winks and Unclad Fish [...]
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