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Have you heard the story about the honey bee genome that’s taking world by storm? I certainly did. On Friday afternoon I pushed through the latest issue of Insect Molecular Biology in a record time of 2 hours and 26…
Continue readingCoincidentally, when I came to peruse the current ‘advance’ job vacancies list when it was handed to me on Tuesday, there was one, for the post of Producer in Web Prodution for which I had to go back to Duncan…
Continue readingEncouraging enough though to get me away from frittering my time away, fiddling with making my websites conform to Accessibility rules and creating band posters, though? I hope so – another WriteWords review… I’ve finally managed to take a look…
Continue readingIt’s been coming for a while now, but with no end date or details it’s been hard to really plan for things, except to apply for other things as they come up. On 30 April 2007, the job role of…
Continue reading…but I did get a good review from someone net to WriteWords, even if they did think that T E SHEPHERD was a girl… 😉 I really like the way you frequently switch between different characters’ p.o.v.s, it kept my…
Continue readingWhy is that cat flaps have to make a disconcerting flap-flapping noise upon opening and closing. It seems to frighten the life out of young Bella and Arthur. Segregating one of them off temporarily into the cat basket I showed…
Continue reading1. An odd day. Very heavy rain greeted an even darker than usual morning – so dark, so wet, that I failed to see the ocean sized puddle out the back of the house as I ran across to get…
Continue readingAn ethereal light greeted me this morning; the sky cast in red, and a mist over the fields. The drive through Oxfordshire countryside lost something as I neared work, as gentle, serene mist seeped in grey fog and cold drizzle….
Continue reading1. Bella went to visit Aunty Gemma for the day today, and has come back microshipped and shaven down one side. An awfully large area of shaving considering the small operation performed. Next weekend, if the weather is fine, my…
Continue reading[courtesy of aurora_floyd] People throughout the country are being asked to contribute to a mass web log recording a day in the life of Britain. Tuesday 17 October has been picked as an “ordinary day much like any other of…
Continue readingI have begun redrafting my novel, and my workspace looks something like this; all ink of green and red and blue; notes and crossings out…
Continue readingThe subject line to this post just about sums up my weekend. But it’s been better than that. I’ve not begun re-reading Blood & Fire yet, but I have made a start on a first ‘prologue’ chapter to Mr Tumnal….
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