After a lot of thought, I’ve decided that I can’t afford to enter that National Sudoku Championship that I posted about a while ago. A couple of new bills have come in and I can’t even spare the £25 entry fee, let alone the travel costs to Cheltenham. I’m pretty gutted, especially after reading this […]
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…a safe home, love, cuddles, good people lookng after them? Affordable food, education, medicine…? Nope. No siree, not if they are Christian children! Christian children need Armour of God PJsTM to keep all those damm demons away! (Thanks to Orac)
My health seems to be taking a slight upwards turn. My tendonitis is definately a little better – I managed to do up my seatbelt myself this morning, and I can actually raise my right hand above my head for the first time in weeks; the chronic aching seems to have diminished as well, so […]
Well, that’s caught your eye. The Goverment has announced
…perhaps. A couple of weeks ago I noticed an entry form for a national Soduku competion in the back of a puzzle magazine. The closing date was the next day, but I completed the entry puzzle in 15 minutes and got it into the post. This morning, I received a letter telling me that I […]
….1.00am and I’m lying awake, silently cursing the aching in my knees and shoulders that are keeping me from sleep. Voices outide, laughter, hooting calls. John and Pauline having another party? No – they’re too considerate to let guests make such a noise outsde at this time of night. B snores on beside me. Icautiously […]
I’ve suspected for a long time that I have Aspergers Syndrome (although sometimes I think I’m not Aspie at all, but just normally weird). My life-long difficulty making eye contact with people is one of the reasons for my suspicion; it’s a well-known AS trait (along with a tendency to mistake the standard “How are […]
Been meaning to write something here for days, but somehow the urge stops when I actually sit down to do it. Anyway, my health is both better and worse. I’ve been off the Ibuprofen for three weeks now and I’m feeling quite a lot better. I actually walked back from the village shop this morning […]
….plenty long enough, I would have thought, for some real evidece to emerge in the foiled “Al Qaeda plot” to to blow up planes. Sure, two guns and a suspicious suitcase have been found in High Wycombe woods. But if they had any connection with the “terrorists” who have been banged up, an announcement to […]
Cell by Stephen King The blurb on the back claims that King is the greatest storyteller ever. Oh no he’s not. Not on the evidence of this, anyway. I can instantly come up with the names of at least three other authors whose plotting and characterisation are consistently superior to this. (OK, the three are […]