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15:38 is now safely installed back in the new look *old office*. Looking pretty bright, airy and comfortable… 🙂 # 21:02 has saved £572.74 on delivery changes alone in the last 2 years, just by being signed up to @ocadouk…
Continue readingQuite excitingly, I got to move back into my old office today after refurbishment. Since I left before Christmas, the dividing wall between my office and next door has come down, its been redecorated throughout, re-carpeted and lovely new furniture…
Continue reading10:33 is applying for ISBN numbers… # 17:44 is wondering how slow the passport agency website can be…?!? # 18:54 would like to kindly request no spoilers about tonight’s #Sherlock. Emma’s working so won’t be watching it until tomorrow. Thanks…
Continue readingIt has always been the case that Sunday afternoons in January were made for researching holidays. We have been considering a trip to Greenland this year, but we’ve decided that we can’t really afford to do it justice. There are…
Continue readingEmma is on nights this weekend, and so, with the chances that a large part of tomorrow will be spent asleep, we headed out this morning with the aim of spending as much time as possible outdoors enjoying the weather….
Continue reading23:37 considers the rise in self-ePublishing… t.co/0KZ1QkrR # 18:57 after a very nice day out in the Oxfordshire countryside, have said farewell to Emma for the nightshift. Home alone tonight… # 20:25 is going to go and dust off the…
Continue reading08:42 RT @WstonesOxfordSt I saw the apostrophe on my way to work this morning. It’s not looking too well. t.co/6OAARGiF # 12:16 Have you heard about @bicestervets great FREE nurses clinics? t.co/JW7dC75P # 15:00 just read an interesting article about…
Continue readingIn today’s The Guardian there was a profile of Amanda Hocking, the writer who made millions by self-publishing online, and its a story that does give hope to all aspiring writers who are building up an expansive collection of rejection…
Continue reading12:24 finds it annoying when people still double-space after full stops. It’s really not necessary in the post-typewriter age! #punctuationgripes # 16:23 My heart bleeds for Tesco. Maybe their bubble has finally burst… t.co/ckWtKPBO # 17:43 is inputting final corrections….
Continue readingThe Kindle has proved a pretty useful tool for final editing of my novel, The End of All Worlds. I have been able to use it to read the story, afresh, comfortably, whilst marking up changes and corrections using the…
Continue reading22:47 : my thoughts on the proposed #HS2 (for what they’re worth) t.co/5h9o5tZ3 # 11:57 : the pros and cons of self-ePublishing… t.co/SKJRglKN # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingI am confused by Cameron’s latest call for film funding to only go to commercially successful films in the future. Many have already raised the issue better than I can that you can’t predict what is going to become a…
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Continue reading12:26 #bbcstargazing Live will be back on BBC2 next Mon/Tue/Wed… \via @daraobriain @ProfBrianCox # 12:49 has spent the morning unlearning all the joys of new-fangled CSS to make old fashioned html look nice… #webdesign #htmlemails # 22:47 : my thoughts…
Continue readingSo the HS2 high-speed rail link gets the green light, and I find myself more confused than ever with my feelings about this. I am very much in favour of high speed railway, not that we need many lines in…
Continue readingEver wondered what books get up to when left unattended in a bookshop after hours…? …and this, the video that inspired them to make the follow up. Love it!
Continue reading18:59 has just experienced the worst rotten egg ever. Properly green and stinking. Thankfully not one of our girls’… # 20:38 If you’re tempted by @safestyle windows, don’t! 2nd dodgy door2door salesman, rude & abusive. Didn’t vandalise the neighbours car…
Continue readingI have a perennial New Year’s resolution to read more. One that I’ve not been doing to too good at. I keep a log of all the books I read (note: it is also updated online via the Facebook Booktracker…
Continue reading11:15 writes about the non-event political announcement which changes nothing… t.co/HLW45PIz 🙁 # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingI feel pleasantly tired after a hard day’s work out in the garden. After a leisurely Sunday morning breakfast, we set ourselves to digging up the front garden, digging out the self-seeded budlea bushes and removing the old water feature…
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