I made the house all sorts of tidy this morning. Now I have to mail out planning before marking books. The more things change ( Read more... )

Just scaled 26, 000. At 27, 000 I get to type up the epilogue that came to me the other night and ended up on paper, get to shower and go shopping :)

Hope: to reach 30, 000 by tomorrow. I think I'll 29, 000 the target for phoning the Jazz Club to book entry for Sunday night's soul gig. I did email about vocalists at the Classical Rock Jam, let's ( Read more... )

GUYS GUYS GUYS!! If you ever get a chance to see the traditional Sufi dancers, often called the Whirling Dervishes GO!!! I will explain more later, but the musicians were fantastic (I have never seen so much done with finger cymbals, nor anyone move their fingers that fast on a djambe!)and then the dancing itself ... I need to look up the story ( Read more... )

Meeting shortly, followed by dervishes, so just a quicky ;)

( Some days, even the desperate can't be bnothered. )

So, it appears I have lost about 3000 words due to word apparently going on strike as of the ninth of the sodding month. But it's ok because if I hadn't done the decent thing and put it on gdocs at the weekend I would have lost 10,000. And quit. One assumes that when one presses the little disc and the document appeas to save, it has infact done so ( Read more... )

This evening's update, featuring ideas taken from Eid el Aadah, the Museum of Islamic Art, Maelstrom and my good self...

( 'I don't lie about everything!' )

Back to school! They won't all be morning updates, but this one is.

( What Sammi saw... )

She gets a name! I had fun writing this part; when the big lady gets up on the steps, think of the Witch of the Waste from Howl's Moving Castle when she's lost a lot of her power. That's how doughy she is ^_^

( Priestesses and visions )

Slightly smaller chunk, no name for her yet!

( Politeness and Politics )

If I had more space/time I'd go into more details about the temples. For the sake of the wordcount, it's something that gets a wee bit skimmed.

( The reluctant adventurer )