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March 2011

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10:13 is confused. In UK English, definitively, is it towards or toward? #grammar # 16:32 The double standards of green anti-nuclear opponents | George Monbiot t.co/oQjtqs3 via @guardian # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

10:13 is confused. In UK English, definitively, is it towards or toward? #grammar # 16:32 The double standards of green anti-nuclear opponents | George Monbiot t.co/oQjtqs3 \via @guardian # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

15:03 The @nationaltrust want you to tweet the postcode of bluebells in flower, tag #bluebellwatch with a picture via twitpic bit.ly/eJX2XJ # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

15:03 The @nationaltrust want you to tweet the postcode of bluebells in flower, tag #bluebellwatch with a picture via twitpic bit.ly/eJX2XJ # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

14:11 : people have favourites—you can divide the fans roughly into Archer’s Goon and Fire and Hemlock people: bit.ly/fXd2g2 # 14:56 also used to look under both the Js and the Ws: the wild magic of Diana Wynne Jones t.co/tL6fufR…

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The Time Was When

14:11 : people have favourites—you can divide the fans roughly into Archer’s Goon and Fire and Hemlock people: bit.ly/fXd2g2 # 14:56 also used to look under both the Js and the Ws: the wild magic of Diana Wynne Jones t.co/tL6fufR…

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Once every ten years

In a BBC Radio 4 Tracing Your Roots census special, they gave a very cool idea, that, before you send off your form, you photocopy it and keep it safe to hand down through the generations so that your own…

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Once every ten years

In a BBC Radio 4 Tracing Your Roots census special, they gave a very cool idea, that, before you send off your form, you photocopy it and keep it safe to hand down through the generations so that your own…

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Equally Cursed and Blessed

This weekend, one of my favourite authors of all time, Diana Wynne Jones, died. I knew that she had been badly ill but it still came as a bit of a shock, after all she was still very much, actively,…

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The Time Was When

10:27 : Elbow win Dynamic Range Day Award 2011 t.co/1WhIfrW #DRD11 # 11:17 is so proud of @EmmaEShepherd & her 88% in her last assignment. If there’s something strange; with your pussycats, ya know who ya gonna call # 14:06…

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The Time Was When

10:27 : Elbow win Dynamic Range Day Award 2011 t.co/1WhIfrW #DRD11 # 11:17 is so proud of @EmmaEShepherd & her 88% in her last assignment. If there’s something strange; with your pussycats, ya know who ya gonna call # 14:06…

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The Time Was When

13:23 Tonight! 7.30pm @ Abingdon Guildhall! Miss it, or miss out! http://fb.me/yftpux2m # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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The Time Was When

09:24 on The Art vs. The Craft of writing, and realising where I was going wrong for so many years… http://bit.ly/hEDBrH #writing #craft # 13:59 on the dream; to be published or be publisher… http://shepline.livejournal.com/868797.html #writing #publishing #publisher # Automatically…

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The Time Was When

09:24 on The Art vs. The Craft of writing, and realising where I was going wrong for so many years… http://bit.ly/hEDBrH #writing #craft # 13:59 on the dream; to be published or be publisher… http://shepline.livejournal.com/868797.html #writing #publishing #publisher # Automatically…

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On considering the dream

I’m currently reading 13 Curses, the second book in Michelle Harrison’s trilogy of dark fairies books. She worked for an Oxford-based publisher at the same time as I did (although I never actually knew her) and recently I read this…

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On considering the dream

I’m currently reading 13 Curses, the second book in Michelle Harrison’s trilogy of dark fairies books. She worked for an Oxford-based publisher at the same time as I did (although I never actually knew her) and recently I read this…

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The Art vs. The Craft

This post began life in a comment to a recent post by Helen; one that made me consider art vs. craft of writing a novel. I think that I too might have payed too much attention to doing something different…

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The Art vs. The Craft

This post began life in a comment to a recent post by Helen; one that made me consider art vs. craft of writing a novel. I think that I too might have payed too much attention to doing something different…

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The Time Was When

15:27 : if God were to exist then s/he certainly seems to have it in for the world… #earthquake #burma #platetectonics # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter #

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