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 Unfortunately it should, by my reckoning, still be Sunday.  It was only yesterday that I discovered I was a day out and had been since, I think, Thursday ( Read more... )

I've just subjected a few excerpts of Haunted to the I Write Like... on-line automated analysis.

My first excerpt was one I've always been rather pleased with from Chapter 5 of Haunted.  The result was Dan Brown, which made me want to give up writing altogether, if not actually slit my wrists,  if some of the best lyrical writing I  could produce ( Read more... )

I've been amending and editing my Riper Files story Haunted, ready to include in my mwrgana_muse LJ.  The idea was to post all the stories in the series in chronological order.  Having been well and truly beaten up by LJ's formatting, though, I've lost the will to live the motivation, for today at least.

How can LJ editing lose all but the first ( Read more... )

The first change was the loss of little Desi - de ratta. On Wednesday morning I had been sitting up late - 3am - catching up with programmes on BBC 7 before I went to bed, only to find Desi lying very still in the corner of the cage.  He was so cold that I thought he was dead but when I picked him up, he kicked and blinked his eyes.  I tried ( Read more... )

It's been a relatively busy weekend, for me. I went out to do some shopping yesterday evening and earlier in the day, celebrating the return of an interwebs connection, I posted my nekid_number manip for the prompt at nekid_spike which demanded Wes, picnic and egg with the addition of Spike.

Not content with the manip - which  had taken most of a day, ( Read more... )

So,it's Easter Bank Holiday Monday, is it? And of course this weekend is the traditional gardening weekend and, of course, I didn't do any ( Read more... )

Spring is here, it seems.  Yesterday I didn't put the heating on at all, which was rather nice.   I wonder if I'll manage that today?

I've applied for a ticket for the special Thank-you-to-Llandaf screening of the new Dr Who.  No guarantees that I'll get one but as they're offering up to five per household, I'll be really pissed off if I don't get ( Read more... )

I'm checking out the on-line version of a book called Common Errors in English Usage (and I think that there, they mean 'use' rather than 'usage', seeing as it refers to current use not just tradition) and am stunned at what seems to be common. A couple of examples which I've never, thankfully, come across before (I couldn't ever begin to guess ( Read more... )

For the first time for months I'm hearing birdsong.   It has been so quiet through the winter, that this little solo is quite spectacular.  I also heard the robins giving it some welly at about 3.15 this morning.  At first I thought it was the dawn chorus, then looked again at the time ( Read more... )