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Local council cuts - map
So, this is an interesting map - it shows cuts to councils and the depth of those cuts.
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Christmas and cuts
I could do a fairly standard bah-humbug post, but I rather like Christmas and as such will be rather disappointed to taint it with Scrooge-esque noises. However, the run up has been difficult. It's been a testing time for anyone working in the Arts, and we are seeing the first flurry of snowflakes that precede the avalanche of cuts. We'll know more ( Read more... ) -
Christmas carol
I write a Christmas "special" of my almost acceptable detective noir series:
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Show down
The show came down on Saturday night, and it's all done and dusted for 2010. Just a couple more weeks of sweeping and tidying then a nice long break, really glad with how everything went, although a bit sad that the weather and suchlike meant that some people weren't able to come along who I'd hoped would be able to get all excited with me about my ( Read more... ) -
I'm still doing that writing thing
Over at Bad Rep, a slice of Preston-based detective malarky.
http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2010/11/19/king-%E2%80%93-losers-weepers-chapter-five/ -
KING - Losers Weepers or How To Write Serialised Fiction. (I think).
So, my attempts at World Domination via the method of gender-flip detective noir weeklies* continues!
http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2010/11/12/king-losers-weepers-chapter-four/
Writing fiction like this - is a new venture for me. I'm very ( Read more... ) -
Don't keep calm. Don't carry on.
So, this happened yesterday and the media response has been relatively predictable - photos of fires and police with riot shields, silly comments about "typical students" and sniffily superior pat comments about how "violence solves nothing"* - neither of which are especially helpful. What galled me most were these comments - from people who in the ( Read more... ) -
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I had an awesome birthday on Saturday. There was a particularly lovely moment where, stood in the middle of a packed-out curry house (mental apologies to the one other set of people eating there that night) looking at my amazing friends (old, new and inbetween) and I felt very loved and cared for.
It was exactly what I needed, good company and ( Read more... ) -
Trying to put things together again
I am a woman on a mission. The mission is to get my life back the way that it was over Summer only better. Many things have improved and many things have fallen out of cupboards since then, including moving house (stressful and there are still umpteen little jobs that neither kangeiko nor I actually have the time to do), being ill, getting a new chap, ( Read more... )