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In preparation for second draft revision work of Part Three of Blood & Fire I’ve been reading it through with fresh eyes. It seems to be very much a chapter of two halves. The first bit is akin to Part…
Continue readingJess was on my Romania holiday with me in 2005. Since then, she’s travelled further through Transylvania and volunteered in India. Now she’s running the Great North Run to raise money for a school she taught at whilst in India….
Continue reading1. Cold though it might have been to get up to this morning, the quality of light and crispness to the air, and the smell of the day was gorgeous. It was the kind of day that reminds me why…
Continue readingNormally I like to plan for things. I like to know what I’m doing and when I’m doing it. That said, it is great when one does something on the spur of the moment. I’ve been wanting to see 2…
Continue readingMy Christmas tree circa 2001 has grown from just 3 feet tall to something like 9 feet now – not sure exactly but it’s definitely looking down on me now. With the nights starting to draw in, I’ve been thinking…
Continue readingLast week I got conformation that OUP have decided to extend my contract through to November. As a consequence of this my tasks have changed slightly and so, so far this week I have been surfing the seedier side of…
Continue readingWhilst cycling back to the Park & Ride tonight, I found my head buzzing with the closing scenes to chapter 12 (end of part two), so much so, that I had to sit in my car for about 15 minutes…
Continue readingFergus Drennan The Guardian Tuesday 18 September 2007, 12:00pm For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, the hedgehog was meat for the pot. Today, it is an acquired taste – acquired by combing the verges of roads. Making a meal of it: first,…
Continue readingOn Friday night, I accidentally sent Emma a text message to her landline instead of her mobile, so she got it some hours later via the robotic woman at the other end of the phone. Its funny, but obviously the…
Continue readingI’m actually leaving at 1pm this afternoon for my weekend, thanks to getting into work at 7.30 this morning! No, that’s not a sudden surge of enthusiasm and keenness for the job, but rather ‘I might as well seeings as…
Continue readingSteven Morris The Guardian Wednesday September 5 2007 The future of Lundy island as a visitor attraction and one of the remotest places in the UK to live was cast in doubt yesterday as it emerged that its only road…
Continue readingSince I have started watching Heros a few week’s ago, the question of what super power I would most like to have has naturally drifted in and out of my mind at times. I always thought that would be a…
Continue readingUsually I’ve been finding time between eating my sandwiches and reading whatever book it is I’m reading (currently the third part of Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Arthur trilogy, King of the Middle March), to get a bit of work done on revising…
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