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One of my favourite books is The Children of Green Knowe, and one of the most magical adaptations I’ve seen was the BBC’s not often seen 1986 series. Four years ago emej and I were fortunate enough to visit the…
Continue readingHave just watched the BBC’s new adaption of The Borrowers. I came to this film with caution after, loving, possibly too much, the 1992/93 BBC series with Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton and Rebecca Callard, and maybe I was right to….
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 readingI had a dream last night which was alarming, inspiring and impossible all at the same time. I had obviously sent an early draft of my novel to Ros to read, which I haven’t, I’ve sent it to Jane (so…
Continue reading~ I’ve now got a pile of Christmas letters, and a pile of Christmas cards, and list of names. All I have to do is put the three together, address, stamp and post, and I’m sorted. Sounds simple when you…
Continue readingSo, last night’ Doctor Who? Was it worth the anticipation? Actually, yes, most definitely. I have a love-hate relationship to the anticipation for Doctor Who and, in particular, the specials. Anyone care to remember the woefully lamentable and disappointing ‘Titanic’…
Continue readingI’d heard that it was a bad adaptation of a classic book, but being one of my favourite stories of all time I was intrigued enough to still want to see the film version of The Dark Is Rising. That,…
Continue readingLast night I finished reading Ursula Le Guinâs Voices. I can remember being blown away by her original Wizard of Earthsea trilogy (and then latterly, quartet), but I was disappointed by the more recent fifth outing for the world, The…
Continue readingIâve just watched last Thursdayâs modern retelling of The Brothers Grimmâs Rapunzel. It was good fun and entertaining but it wasnât what I would call a retelling of a traditional story. For a retelling to really work for me, it…
Continue readingTook myself off to see Miss Potter the new bio-pic of Beatrix Potter’s life. It’s was good. I really enjoyed it. It’s what I woiuld describe as little film, and a nice film. Beautifully shot of course, and beautiful locations…
Continue readingWe went to the seaside today, down at Christchurch, and Ben had a ride on the train down through the estuary to the beach huts. Fleeing from the rain a couple of hours later, we came home to hibernate in…
Continue reading1. The 100 hour fog finally lifted today, well mostly, leaving behind it a damp, cold day that lingered long, and heavy. Not to get downheartened though we took Barney for a good walk and blew those cobwebs away before…
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 readingEncouraging enough though to get me away from frittering my time away, fiddling with making my websites conform to Accessibility rules and creating band posters, though? I hope so – another WriteWords review… I’ve finally managed to take a look…
Continue reading…but I did get a good review from someone net to WriteWords, even if they did think that T E SHEPHERD was a girl… 😉 I really like the way you frequently switch between different characters’ p.o.v.s, it kept my…
Continue readingAnother YouWriteOn review. With reviews like this it’s going to be hard for me to keep my spirits up… The very first line of this story seemed promising. But then I found the next three paragraphs written in a choppy…
Continue readingThere are some harsh critics out there on YouWriteOn. I think I’ve only had one where they’ve loved it… The main problem I have with this story is that there is too much tell and no show. Ben this, Finnur…
Continue readingThanks to Helen I now have a copy of my YouWriteOn reading test. I can’t remember how many of you have read any of my novel, but I’m going to give this a go. Try answering my reading test and…
Continue readingI’ve had my second reading test failure on my work at YouWriteOn, which surprises me because if anything I thought my questions were too easy. Would someone with an account over there mind going in far enough into the review…
Continue readingAnd, apparently, 24 hours after my third review I get my first rating. I’ll be intrigued to find out how the rating compares to the reviews I’ve had. Meanwhile this third one is an interesting one… You have talent, and…
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