The first thing I knew about my uncle Jim was that he was a scary bastard. Or rather, not him, but the hand tinted picture of him that sat on the fireplace in *my* bedroom when I was a child. Smart black uniform, cute smile, pencil thin, Errol Flynn moustache. He clearly got all the looks whereas my dear old Dad got to be a Harold Lloyd lookalike. ( Read more... )

White ComedyI waz whitemailed ( Read more... )

...When I'm tired. I've just shovelled a pile of crackers and an ecclescake. Worse thing is they hardly touched the sides:( We're being healthy (yes, this is healthy) so no wine or booze for, gosh, weeks. No curry nor chinese neither. Which is always tough on days like today which was quite busy ( Read more... )

Hey there good peoples who aren't in a field. (Riff-raff they are, not like *you*.) I'm still re-working the fecking submission pitch fer, The Red Knight. But yeah, anyway ( Read more... )

I done writ a post on mi blog. http://kdavies.net/ I've put up my first proper rejection letter, so hie thee on over and you can have a giggle at my artistic emo pain;)

I have noticed a drop off of LJ posts. It's a shame, I really like Lj. It's cosy, personal, easy to defend:) And I've met a fair few of the people who are on it (I do not presume to call all here 'friends', as nice as that would be, 'twould be, er...presumptuous) But you know, it's mostly a nice little hang out. I love Twitter, it gets frustrating ( Read more... )

Isn't falling that much apparently. Golden Child One has been basking in sunshine while we've been growing gills. I miss mi girl:( 'Tis all character building and the like, but still...

In other news, the cold is much better, the neddy is lovely (atm). Clever husband is making a website fer me. I'm almost halfway through Zoo City by Lauren ( Read more... )

Are very confoozles. There must be something in the air as I also need to be doing less eatin' and more exercizin'. I had the super jabs a few weeks ago and did a fair bit of working out, but then spent a good few weeks hammering away at the novel and eating crap, un-doing the earlier good work ( Read more... )

Right, I've bin reading lots of posts on the Sf mind meldy thing and other places about women in SF. I lack the knowledge to join in, so I dun writ a story, tonight, in a bit of a rush. So please forgive typos and bad grammar (my regular readers generally do, be happy, I haven't written anything in french) Comments more than welcome.

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Yup, title kinda says it all.