One of Kev’s colleagues got married today and we got to go! It’s the first wedding we’ve been to in years. We’ve outgrown the wedding phase and even the christenings phase. Now we’re pretty much relegated to first communions and funerals until the boys grow up and start pairing off. So it was lovely to… Continue reading Wheeee! A Wedding
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Holiday Pics
Official photographers all over DisneyWorld take your picture and we, like the suckers we are, had to buy them. But hey, at least we have pics of all four of us!
Happy Holidaymaker
I woke up in my own bed this morning, for the first time in a week. Last week was spent at Disney’s Animal Kindgom Lodge in Florida and yes, I was aware of how fortunate I was, every minute of the trip. Before we left I was out of sorts. By the time we got… Continue reading Happy Holidaymaker
Fighting It
So, I wrote a children’s book. It’s a short, 6000 word chapter type book, like one of thos series books that early readers hoover up. My idea was to write a series of them. The first one went really well, and I think part of it was the simplicity. I used a published book as… Continue reading Fighting It
Haircut
I went to have a trim today and came out… …a brunette.
Oh, To Be Welsh
I sat at my computer and just goggled. (That’s right, “goggled”, not “googled”!) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw&hl=en&fs=1]
Sci-Fi is now SyFy
Sci Fi network is rebranding itself as “SyFy” The head dude said, “When we tested this new name, the thing that we got back from our 18-to-34 techno-savvy crowd, which is quite a lot of our audience, is actually this is how you’d text it,” Mr. Howe said. “It made us feel much cooler, much… Continue reading Sci-Fi is now SyFy
Writing Challenges
Had some ideas for an entertaining blog entry last night, but when I sat down to write this morning, it all came out flat. So far this morning I’ve stumbled down to the kitchen, stood blinking in the darkness wondering where I was and what I was doing, grabbed two cups and some milk, made… Continue reading Writing Challenges
Part of the Problem
This morning I was reading reflections by a favourite writer of mine. I know what she looks like and it has, occasionally, crossed my mind to envy her slim stature. In the piece I read this morning she was talking about inexplicable, abberant behaviour and she compared it to, “…hauling off and eating a whole… Continue reading Part of the Problem
Open Letter to the Authors' Guild re: Text To Speech on the Kindle 2
I read that, in response to your complaint, Amazon is preparing to give authors and publishers the choice of whether to offer their books with text-to-speech. Fine. But I’m writing to ask you to encourage your members to tell their publishers to say ‘yes’. I understand the contract issues and the rights issues. I understand… Continue reading Open Letter to the Authors' Guild re: Text To Speech on the Kindle 2