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2013 - The Missing Bits
Or, things I really enjoyed but didn't get around to blogging about.
First of all, let's finish off this particular project:
( E-short read in November ) -
Missing Believed Wiped, 2013
When I saw that I had the relevant weekend off, I couldn't pass up the chance to make my first visit to this event for eight years. Fortunately parrot_knight was also available to join me, so we could reminisce and catch up on news and gossip ( Read more... ) -
I thought it was marvellous. I thought the poetry was dreadful.
The computer's hard drive died a couple of weeks ago, so after repairs I've been trying to rebuild my bookmarks. A link on Karyn Reeves' A Penguin A Week took me to a new blog to me, Nick Jones' Existential Ennui ("The chronicle of a chronic book collector : crime, spy, suspense, thrillers, SF, comics"). The most recent entry links back to a ( Read more... ) -
Recently watched : It Always Rains on Sunday, The Parallax View, The Small Back Room
A viewing schedule determined by the order the disks arrived from Lovefilm. It Always Rains on Sunday is a brilliantly achieved day-in-the-life drama, pitching an escaped convict into the humdrum backwater of Bethnal Green in 1947. It's a prototype for both EastEnders (the original, Julia Smith years) and Dixon of Dock Green (Jack Warner is on ( Read more... )