It’s been a long time since I wrote; so, as I’ve been doing lots of reading (my computer is not healthy and needs lots of time off), I’ll do a bit a literary criticism. Last week in the library, when I spotted Badgers Moon by Peter Tremayne, I got pretty excited. I already knew that […]
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…..another year older, a new one just begun… Anyway, I hope you all had a pleasant and peaceful holiday. For me, it’s back to work – well, I never really stopped, thats what it’s like, working from home – and I’m getting on with some of the backlog of Elfin Diary work, Astrological Association Diary […]
…..the American woman who paid $50K to have her dead cat cloned. This is so brain-numbingly idiotic that I just can’t add anything to it…
Yes, OK, I’ve not been posting for a while. Been busy – we’re making a start on the 2006 Elfin Diary, would you believe? And I have to get some astrological reports out. And get the January issue of Transit together. Aaarghh! But I took yesterday off for Yule. We had a gathering and feast […]
…..this morning, on BBC news, an interview with a writer who had produced a volume explaining the origins of common English phrases such as “hair of the dog” and “white elephant”. The two presenters were in awe of his knowledge, amazed at his erudition, gobsmacked at the many hours of study and research evident in […]
Saw the doctor yesterday, for my now-regular monthly checkup. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that in the last two months I have acquired diagnoses for angina, high blood pressure and an underactive thyroid. All that’s on top of my existing arthritis. Whoo hoo…. I now don’t feel so guilty about not doing the gardening. Yesterday, […]
… Gavin’s cremation was today. Really, one of us here, one of his neighbours, should have been there. But, nobody seemed too enthusiastic. Well, Carol was working, Graham is also working; don’t know about the others yet. We did think of going. But it is miles away, at Ayr, and we can’t really afford the […]
Our neighbour Gavin died on Friday. He had been ill for several months, with what was eventually diagnosed as cancer of the osoephegus. He’d been away in hospital for about two months, and died so suddenly and unexpectedly that his family were unable to get to his bedside in time. We didn’t know him well […]
I was up at dawn this morning – before dawn, in fact. We had a power cut here last night; it came back on just after four this morning. I’d forgotten to turn off our printers and they made a heck of a racket powering up. So I got up to turn them off, along […]
Just had an email from Roy Gillett of the Astrological association, about Transit: At Saturday’s meeting we will be discuss ways of making it available to more and more members. I’m not at all sure I like the sound of that. Though I can’t say exactly why. There have been rumblings amongst the ancient bearded […]