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At Abingdon Concert Band we have a real problem finding enough brass. Trumpets and bass instruments are hard enough to find, and horns are next to impossible… Meanwhile in the ranks of the upper-woodwind we’re breeding (not literally I hasten…
Continue readingHad this email this morning. Some of my photos of the Salisbury Cathedral Advent Nativity are going to appear on the BBC Wiltshire website… Hi: I’m a producer on the BBC Wiltshire website and was wondering if I could use…
Continue readingI had a great weekend. It was good, really good. My parents came up to stay on Friday night and I cooked pizza for them. Then on Saturday we went into Bicester and chose some new stair carpet (will just…
Continue readingMy parents have come visiting me this weekend – it’s my mum’s birthday tomorrow, and my concert too. They actually arrived earlier than expecting, and seeing as my meringues for Sunday were still in the oven at a ‘barely on’…
Continue readingIt seems that Bella quite like my flute playing. She will go and cozy up in her bed in the corner of the turn of the stairs, and lie there basking as I play, heard and toes hanging out all…
Continue reading1. Went swimming after work today. Strangely, when I first arrived there were so few people around it was flat calm. 2. Had an email invite from Swimathon for next years sponsored swim. Shall I do it again? If I…
Continue readingI am making changes, sometimes big, fundamental, changes to the work in progress, and I am sacrificing words. But I am also adding, improving, and building on the story and the characters. My wordcount and page count are increasing and…
Continue readingI have recently registered with Critique Circle and uploaded my first story there. It’s up for critiquing on the 22 November as I still try and find my way around the site. It feels right to try out this critiquing…
Continue readingBlackwell Publishing sold for £572m by Maggie Hartford 5:25pm Friday 17th November 2006 The Blackwell family has ended a long-running feud about the future of its publishing company by selling it to a US rival for £572m. John Wiley &…
Continue readingPartly in a response to a resupply request of some Electronic Deliverables made by TechBooks in which, in additon to supplying them to the ftp site they sent me a copy of the file: mnr_v0_i0_aor_g9E7B1C7A-0716-4F26-B756-B5B2788E7562.go with the message: p.s.: Although…
Continue readingAt eleven-thirty this morning we had an email round saying that our CEO was to make an announcement to the whole company at 1.30pm this afternoon in the atrium and that any meetings scheduled should be cancelled, any visitors would…
Continue readingI’ve just discovered that I have inadvertently given Hanna Katla’s mother the same name as one of the alfar characters – Eyrún. And of course I can’t even get round it with a global Find&Replace to get me out of…
Continue readingI have now revised the first two chapters of Blood & Fire. Or to put it another way, the first 25 pages. I could say 6% – but which ever way I put it, it does sound like a pathetically…
Continue readingStroll over here if you are a paid member and you want to extend your paid time do the recent service outage…
Continue readingHave just listened to tonight’s episode of The Archers – bloomin’ heck it was good – it was brilliant. Way, way better than the special 15,000th episode last Tuesday night. For the uninitiated, David Archer (son of Phil Archer, widow…
Continue readingThis morning, as I was having my breakfast, and after Bella and Arthur finished there’s, Arthur mosied up to the cat flap and pushed his way through. Bella followed. When I got home this evening, Bella was waiting for me…
Continue readingA message from my dad… You may be interested in the international video-seminar I am giving for WUN on Wed 8 November (details below), (at 12 noon EST, 1700 GMT) which will (I hope) also be web-cast live on http://media2.cac.psu.edu:8080/ramgen/encoder/WUN_live.rm….
Continue readingToday Has not ended in the way I would have liked I will bounce back I always do Right now, though I have lost my bounce
Continue readingI used to know exactly how many interviews I’d had – now I forget – but it’s something like 60 since the Summmer of 96 (maybe I should write a rock song by that name… *grins*). Certainly I was on…
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