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”To one side a slug quartet was playing…” oh, no, that should be string quartet…! Such was the realisation that I really should be able to read my own writing. Of course, on reading this, my darling emej was kind…
Continue reading15:55 With the controversy over Blackberry Messaging and #ukriots its only a matter of time before Steve Jobs buys the company… # 15:56 (contd.) to form a new company: Apple and Blackberry. Shortly after they will launch their new gadget,…
Continue readingThe first time I made this quiche it went hideously wrong. It took far longer than advertised to cook and the finished result looked somewhat like what you might expect to find lying in pools outside pubs late on a…
Continue reading08:47 can’t quite believe that @106jackfm just played I Predict A Riot. Brilliant! # 11:40 With recent criticism over the use of Blackberry Messaging, time to rebrand? Keeping the theme of autumn fruits… how about Sloe Messaging? # 13:47 It’s…
Continue reading11:09 likes the idea of adopting a word, but what word to choose? Ox Dictionaries asking people to adopt a word to save them t.co/ceYd6rK # 11:13 has just discovered magistricide (the killing of a teacher or master). I think…
Continue reading19:50 double last week’s total and lost 2lbs this week. 10lbs in total in three weeks… # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingBack home and Kathryn retrieved up the screwed up ball of paper from under her deck and flattened it out. She stood and stared at it, trying to work out if she should or not. She got as far as…
Continue reading23:41 has very much enjoyed @creationtheatre’s Anthony & Cleopatra: didn’t know the story beforehand but they carried me with it. Brilliant! # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading10:01 Two pints of Birdsnest and – a couple of stilton burgers and chunky chips, please: I created a local beer for the city of Wren Hoe! #writing # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading…the end of part three of four of Mr Tumnal is in sight. 60999 / 80000 words. 76% done!
Continue reading23:12 just realised that I wrote tow path as toe. Oops! #spellingerrors # 08:56 : there appears to be a queue for the nestboxes, hence a certain amount of unnecessary squawking. There are of course 2 nestboxes. #chickens # 11:09…
Continue reading‘Of course if I do happen to see Mr Tumnal, or hear from him, I shall be sure to let him know that – that—’ ‘Kathryn.’ ‘That Kathryn was looking for him.’ She smiled. Almost immediately as Kathryn had said…
Continue reading09:09 listening to the melody of micro-blogging: student has turned the daily blizzard of tweets into music bbc.in/qt19wn \via @BBCr4today # 20:11 is it good or bad that I’m getting properly scared as I read/type up my own novel…? #writing…
Continue reading‘So he does exist then? Louis…’ said Charlotte. ‘Well he’s not my imaginary friend, if that’s what you’re asking.’ Kathryn laughed. 55797 / 80000 words. 70% done!
Continue readingWhat follows presupposes that at some before I die I have written lots of book which make, if in a small way, some kind of impact. This being the case, if, at some point in the future, either me or…
Continue reading14:24 Carrot tops! They are not just for bunnies… fb.me/15fQbDxSt \via @AlysFowler @PermacultureMag # 17:59 didn’t do any lay-by writing today, but did indulge in a couple of sentences of #driveway #writing before coming in… # 20:18 has just eaten…
Continue reading22:33 writes about writing (for a change)… http://shepline.livejournal.com/893524.html #writing #progress #MrTumnal 19:40 is waiting for this famous thunderstorm that all my Oxford friends keep talking about. It’s not fair, we never get thunderstorms… 12:57 for anyone wondering how I respond…
Continue readingIn fact, I’ve been writing lots. After a bit of a hiatus, I got back to writing just before my holiday in June, spending a good portion of the drive down to Cornwall reading my own novel on the motorway…
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