From The Golden Compass, my deamon is.

Leonidas started off as a whippet. I wonder what he will be in 12 days time?

After 40 odd years of not writing fiction, of doing technical writing and programming, I put pen to paper. I wrote what I thought was a description of a dream I had had ( Read more... )

Yes, my darling husband has a Mistress. And I approve ( Read more... )

We recently found the money to buy a new camera, digital SLR - a Canon.  We always loved taking photos, but since getting a little digital we had stopped using the film SLR.  Even though the 2 second time gap frustrated the hell out of us.  The new Canon is a blessing.

This weekend Hubby was racing his Mistress (his race car)  and asked me to take ( Read more... )

I go out last night to a birthday party, get up really really early to go with the family to watch hubby play with his mistress (the race car), and get home well after dark to find my hook critiqued sometime during the day.

( The hook - Whispered Webs )

My boys are in high school. A private school. They are very active with sports - school runners club three morning a week, school sport training one afternoon a week, plus the game, sports training outside of school twice a week plus the game. One day a week is free of activities, not counting weekends that can be full or empty ( Read more... )

But I haven't been slack. Promise ( Read more... )

Topic of friendship and true friends came up briefly during chat. It reminded me of a poem I used to know of. I thought I had a copy of it but couldn't find it so searched the web. Found it.

( A True Friend )

Polished, improved and sent, thanks to FM chatters ( Read more... )

Why do teenagers not think ( Read more... )