Busy, busy. Still trying to crank out the Elfin Diary. Still getting the online version of the May edition of Transit together. Should have finished and uploaded Transit last night. But we had a surprise visit from one of Brian’s brothers and his wife, all the way from Australia. No, they hadn’t come just to […]
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Went to see Doc G this morning about my blood test and got some positive news. My cholesterol level, though still rather high, is down, from 7.5 to 7.2. I told him about my new vegan diet; he was quite impressed and said that since my blood pressure was OK and I wasn’t experiencing symptoms […]
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 “We’re all […]
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. […]
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 writing for […]
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….
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 […]
….having fully accepted my Life on Mars fangirldom, I’m setting up www.hyde2612.net, as an LOM fan/ecommerce site. I blame Neptune conjuncting my Jupiter, personally….. 🙂
…..I have spent the last two hours reading through a Life On Mars fan forum. How sad is that…? “It’s 1973. It’s dinnertime. And I’m ‘aving ‘oops!”
Thought I was doing too well…. Yesterday morning, I woke up with an all-too-familiar tachycardia attack – heart thumping away at a regular 170-180 bpm. Not at all unusual, unfortunately, and nothing to be done about it except stay lying down and wait for it to end; these things had never lasted longer than about […]