Finally moved down to England, after lots of delays, and settling into my tiny new flat. A lot of the stuff I was hoping to do last year never got done. Besides preparations for the expected move sidelining everything, my health has been getting steadily worse; I have myalgia, osteo-arthritis, a bad back and a […]
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Have made a start on selling my photographs and set up an account at PhotoBoxGallery where people can buy prints; at the mo, I’ve only uploaded a few landscape photos. I have an old account at RedBubble, where I’ll probably sell my more ‘arty’ stuff; there’s just a few old images there now – when […]
…is always worth pinching, I say. So here I present my answer to Dawkins’ “Scarlet Letter” (see previous post): the astrologers’ “Sky-Blue Letter”! If you’re an astrologer, feel free to copy it and display it on your blog or website, linked to your local astrological group’s site. For Astrological Association members, I’ve also designed a […]
This morning, there was more bad news for the Home Office: Hundreds of inmates have escaped from open prisons. Shouldn’t the Home Office now consider a change of name? How about “The Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home Office”? And the ever-excellent Charlie Stross weighs in with a third blog post on the insuperable problems […]
For Charlie Stross, who has just won a Hugo for one of his novels! (OK Charlie, is this enough…?)
That’s the new SF book by Charlie Stross whom I just happen to know. Well, OK, he’s not a close friend – well, maybe I shouldn’t really call him a friend. OK, he’s more of an acquaintance. OK, he’s hardly even an acquaintance. I used to know his partner Feorag; and I met him once […]
… for a friend of mine. Her name is Sara Willow, she is a poet and has just bought out her first poetry collection. It’s called Shape To Shape. IMO, she is a brilliant poet and everyone should read her stuff.. This is one of hers: WHAT THE POOL SAID What the pool said: Climb […]