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10:50:10: is on hold with the most dreadful canned ‘pop’ music ever! I wanna vomit… 10:53:51: “Your call is important to us”? So why do rot my brin with this bilge? #BootsOpticians? FAIL… 10:57:41: “Your call is important to us”?…
Continue readingI have been challenged by Jane to come up with my Top Seven Diana Wynne Jones books – that’s seven books for seven days of the DWJ week. Seven books, I thought, that sounds easy I can come up with…
Continue reading10:11:02: wonders whether any of my publishing friends can recommend a good copy-editor who does fiction? #editing #copyediting 11:41:20: writes about Diana Wynne Jones and why she is an author to recommend to anyone who likes a good story, well…
Continue readingI’m going to write about Fire & Hemlock again, but this time from the perspective of the writer, ispired to write because of it. One of the things I love about Fire & Hemlock is its rich use of source…
Continue readingIf there is one London Olympics project for which I am truly in favour then this would be it. I’ve seen hydrogen fuel celled buses before – they’ve had them in Iceland for years – and so the news that…
Continue readingIt’s Diana Wynne Jones week this week, and I’ve been taking my time in deciding how best to celebrate this fact, and which book to review. My friend Jane has already reviewed Fire & Hemlock, my all time favourite Diana…
Continue reading10:19:23: : “Money was never the motivator for me, I want to change perceptions of the unnoticed and ignored” http://bit.ly/9Iu1sm via @amandahone 13:45:34: finds that once every so often I find the odd quotable phrase… http://amzn.com/k/1YT7BDT3T373U #Kindle 13:47:18: considers a…
Continue reading11:17:49: : P-p-p-pick up a Penguin for 75 years http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10794227 14:20:46: would like to know why the BBC found it necessary to transmit the start code for @steven_moffat’s #Sherlock 20 minutes late last night? 14:41:26: : Take part in Diana…
Continue reading11:01:49: is looking forward to the reptile hunt today at @wwtlondon. Would like to see and photograph a little water ratty too! 13:59:59: has seen slow worms and grass snakes at @wwtlondon. Little rattie still elusive… 20:56:36: has seen slow…
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