April 2004

“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.” My dvd copy of volume one of this spell-binding series created…

Got up, not quite as early as I had hoped for the leisurely Good Friday breakfast involving hot cross buns (although I’ve enjoyed hot cross buns every breakfast this week!) and then headed out into the sun with the dogs…

Okay, so I didn’t capture it, so much as visited it, and strictly speaking it’s not a castle, although it looks like castle, with arrow holes and battlements and everything, but then they did need some where to shoot any…

With chapter two completed last night, today I generated the 60 page PDF Proof, and despatched it off to Helen (aka. siren_songs) who has been enthusiastic enough to accept first reading of it. So fingers crossed – what will I…

…hot vana tallinn chocolate, is all the better when made with Green & Black’s 70% dark chocolate. Mmn…

…that does not seem right. I’m all for people being able to enjoy their retirement, but I don’t expect them to …but why have I come here? waiting was hard. dinner was finished, lights had been extinguished. the way he…

I’m edging step by tentative step towards returning my characters to Reykjavik. You how it is when you are into the last few pages of a novel and how if you just keep reading a bit longer you’ll get to…

So a week into owning my new iRiver player, and with 1523 songs loaded onto it, I thought it was time to do one of those music memes and see what the first ten tracks are to come out of…

Or at least that is what it would have looked like to the casual oberver! Got back from a walk with dogs in the sun and the woods this morning, and whilst we still had our boots on, dad and…

With the exception of a couple of David Hare plays (I know, I know, the critics love him, and I’m tried him, twice … but Racing Green and that other one I can’t remember the title are internably dull…) every…

shepline’s Friend Fusion …would seem to me a waste of life; that on the whole I get infinite pleasure from it…& that some people …He was the one that started it. I swear to god.. some people are just idiots!…

Sun on my shirt sleeves A breeze through my heart

1. Pick something on my interests list that you also like and describe why. 2. Pick something on my interests list that you don’t like and describe why. 3. Pick something that is on my interests list that surprises you….

At lunch today, Kim mentioned a dream that she had had last night which involved me coming into work one morning to announce that I had this great new job at such-and-such a place and it was going to be…