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Okay, lets admit it shall we. In previous weeks, I’ve actually been managing to swim thirty lengths in more like thirty-five minutes – but today, I managed them in (reasonably) elegant strokes in the thirty minutes. 🙂 Swimming has also…
Continue readingFor the fourth day now, I am suffering an annoying pain in my right side located in the neck and head area. I think I must moved/slept awkwardly on Thursday night, and Friday and Saturday were particularly bad when moving…
Continue readingUpon returning from London Town, I had an encouraging email response from siren_songs as regards chapter one (the first 20,000 words) of Blood & Fire. I think one of the things I find most encouraging about it, that not only…
Continue readingI guess it all started yesterday. At 8pm I rolled up at Jo’s birthday party – as I’d predicted to myself I was the first to arrive – which is good for me, because I find it easier mix with…
Continue readingIt’s not yet fully launched (do to lj login problems), but, and with thanks to the genius that is tinyjo my journal and it’s friends, and archive pages now has a brand, spanking, new, clean look. And now, time, me…
Continue readingcurrently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 110 today’s wordcount: 469 current total: 29,566
Continue readingAnd so, today, this journal, and the pages within reaches it’s first birthday! A year ago on 12 February 2003, I plucked up courage, and on seeing this
Continue readingcurrently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 108 today’s wordcount: 693 current total: 29,097
Continue readingThanks to the Royal Mail track’n’trace system, I have discovered that my memory has arrived. No thanks to Royal Mail, it took quite a bit of reasoned discussion with an unhelpful employee at the Bicester sorting office to persuade them…
Continue readingNot sure exactly how many, but I’m now (again in the hour or so before midnight?!!) another 600ish words further on. More importantly, I have a better idea of what it is that Gunnlaugr wanted Helen to get him from…
Continue readingIt seems that I’m not going to come by a shiny new, powerful computer in the immediate future – one is on the horizon but it’s a tad misty at the mo’ and it’s hard to judge distances… With this…
Continue reading…and there I was fondly imagining I would get to write the 100 words to the 30k mark. In the end, today, I cleaned the house, put in the new shelf to the hifi unit so that the printer now…
Continue readingAfter last week’s wallow into childhood of the Swallows & Amazons, tonight I watched the dvd of Coot Club, from the 1983 BBC series. I love it. A rareity, it’s actually as good twenty years later (my, is it really…
Continue readingI have the best of weeks, writing – in the last hour before midnight each night – a total of near 1500 words, and they are good words to. It gets to Saturday, and I think this is good, I’ll…
Continue reading12 February is coming, and only one question so far. What’s the one thing you want to know about me?
Continue readingcurrently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 106 current wordcount: 28,404
Continue reading1. You’ve been on several ‘working holidays’ where you do volunteer work as you experience the local culture – how did you first get involved in doing this, and what appeals to you the most about this type of holiday?…
Continue readingCurrently: Answering Question 1 from jordaaner … normal service will resume … eventually! Kelly says here that her questions weren’t very good. I disagree. They are very good. 🙂 I just hope that my answers live up to them! *grins*
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