Thursday, August 11, 2005
WRITING, CREATING, MOVING & FUND-RAISING
I've had a really productive week so far - despite the fact I've been spending way too long here with you lot. I've completed the first draft of the first issue of a top-secret property newsletter project I'm working on, and sent it off to the publisher. I would have liked to have heard back from...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2005
That Piece of Space Junk is Down and Safe
I was delighted to hear, live on BBC Radio 4, the safe landing of the space shuttle a few minutes ago. It landed at Edwards Airforce base in the Mojave Desert, as the weather continued to be dodgy in Florida, and now has to be hauled back to Cape Kennedy on the back of a Boeing. The crew will...
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Monday, August 8, 2005
Ancient Tales and a Stoned Pope
I had a really lovely conversation with an old lady down the road the other day, and she reminded me of just how much history is alive and right on our doorstep. Frances has been a neighbour of my parents all my life, and of mine for the first 21 years I was around, and again since I moved back to...
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Thursday, August 4, 2005
Can YOU Write a Terrible Opening Line???
Here's a little light relief for y'all - the annual Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, which challenges entrants to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. It commemorates the Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who began his novel of 1830, Paul Clifford, with the immortal...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005
A Scattering of Spiders and Smudge Sticks
I'm feeling a little scattered in my thinking right now, so what you're getting here is probably going to be...well...scattered! I've been working a load of projects this year, on the basis that at least one of them will eventually bear fruit. It was a very wide approach - too wide, some said - but...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!
I've just done something I don't do very often! I've just launched a new blog! You see, I've realised that much of what I write, especially in STOP THE WARS, is essentially negative. How can it be otherwise with fools like Bush striding around the place, fucking up people and the planet wherever he...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is a powerful pagan symbol. It was originally a giant human effigy, made of wicker, that was filled with various animals - sheep, goats, chickens and so on - and set alight, right around this time of year, as a sacrifice for a good harvest. The Wicker Man is also the title for one of...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
It's the Next Fifty That Really Count!
I didn't buy T an anniversary card. Is that terrible? She says she doesn't care about such things, and seems clear about that, but then she did give me a card, and it was very sweet. On the other hand, I booked a table at a tiny pub we know in a little hamlet called Greenhaugh, out in the wilds of...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
First Anniversary Today!
Whooo-Hoooo! Married a year and Loving It! Off for a nice meal out this evening, and a night in a posh hotel in the countryside. Yaaaayyyyy!!!!
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Monday, July 18, 2005
Get Your £5 Note - For £40!!!
The world has definitely gone mad! Last week, as golfers will no doubt know, the Scottish Open started, subsequently won by some bloke with a name that sounds like a small forest full of dangerous animals. Anyway, the other fella of some significance is Jack Nicklaus, as he's retiring, and he's put...
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