The Time Was When
Tuesday 3 February 2009
16:17:43 Just dusting off the old twitter account and reconfiguring it for use… 18:52:15 @janerawson that does sound truly awful…
Continue readingThe End
Tuesday 3 February 2009
I am at the end of things; the end of words; the end of the story. This lunchtime I reached the last page of my novel, and the last paragraph. I have made my revisions, worked through my corrections. The…
Continue readingConfidentiality
Tuesday 3 February 2009
I don’t think much of the confidentiality (or rather lack of it) observed by one of the managers here. Last Monday I had to have the day off (or at least a day out of work â I still managed…
Continue readingResolve
Monday 2 February 2009
Readers of this journal may have noted that I have just posted a number of backdated entries going back to the end of last year. I’ve been writing offline for a couple of months now, aiming to keep my journal…
Continue readingGrilling Aubergines
Saturday 31 January 2009
Ros and Nick, and Jane, came over for dinner tonight and to eat the meal that I had spent much of the afternoon preparing. I had been tossing up between a roast or aubergine lasagne for a while but in…
Continue readingPopcorn and Television
Thursday 29 January 2009
Emma is off out tonight with the girls from work and so I will be left home alone — or be it with five cats, two fish (and two chickens in the garden) for company. I’m thinking that tonight will…
Continue readingThe Taste of Wood-baked Bread
Wednesday 28 January 2009
We’ve been watching the new series of It’s Not Easy Being Green on BBC2 on Wednesday nights, with updates from the green New House Farm project. Last week, they included a piece on making your own wood-fired clay oven out…
Continue readingStirring Herman
Thursday 15 January 2009
Herman has grown. Actually he’s almost doubled in size, though he did get knocked back into shape once I’d given him the first of his daily stirs. Emma is concerned by the illustration drawn over the bottom of the instruction…
Continue readingA Cake Called Herman and a Bunny Called Biscuit
Wednesday 14 January 2009
Towards the end of this afternoon I had a phone call from Emma with a request to bring one of the other cat baskets into work at 6.30. I asked why and she told me not to worry, that it…
Continue readingThe January Meme
Monday 12 January 2009
* The first article title on the page is the name of your band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random * The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 * The third picture, no matter what it…
Continue readingMissing, Lost in Writing
Wednesday 7 January 2009
In revising one of my closing chapters I find that I am missing an important, linking, scene in the action. How the hell did I suppose, when writing, that I could carry my readers with my protagonists from one scene…
Continue readingThe Agony of the Waiting
Wednesday 7 January 2009
I’ve cancelled my printing press order. I was sick in the stomach and full of butterflies last night. It’s an expensive purchase, no more expensive than I had expected, and budgeted for out of Grandpa’s inheritance, so I had no…
Continue readingThe Twelfth day of Christmas (The Print Room cometh)
Tuesday 6 January 2009
After a slightly more expensive (but no less worth it) kitchen than hoped for there is sadly not much left from Grandpa’s small legacy, however I have just ordered the main ‘legacy gift’ to myself â a intaglio etching press…
Continue readingThe Sixth day of Christmas: reading more?
Wednesday 31 December 2008
366 days ago, I listed the books that I had read in 2007 as a permanent record of my reading and as a means to find out how I was doing with my perennial resolution to read more. So, by…
Continue readingOn the seventeenth day of advent defy gravity wickedly
Wednesday 17 December 2008
It is ages since I’ve watched the Royal Variety Performance, which was on tonight. But it was pretty good fun actually with a good mix of acts. I was a bit disappointed though by the song from Wicked. At first…
Continue readingOn the sixteenth day of advent (the beginnings of the new)
Tuesday 16 December 2008
Sitting, as I have been in my study (kicking archive issues live at an unprecidented rate) which is located directed above the kitchen I, at times, get odd vibrations coming up through the floor. Just occasionally I find myself some…
Continue readingThe Time Was When
Tuesday 16 December 2008
Thomas is working, whilst plunged into darkness…
Continue readingThe Time Was When
Tuesday 16 December 2008
Thomas is working, whilst plunged into darkness…
Continue readingOn the fifteenth day of advent
Monday 15 December 2008
~ And so the day has come for our kitchen to be installed. Our appliances arrive good and early (one advantage for being out of John Lewisâ High Wycombe area) although we do subsequently discover that the hob and sink…
Continue readingOn the fourteenth day of advent
Sunday 14 December 2008
This morning has been manic, really manic. Helen and Nick kindly agreed to help Em and I as we boxed up our kitchen and turned the dining room into a makeshift servery for breakfast, lunch and takeaways. It took longer…
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