[Reposted from larp guide - http://larp.guide/2015/05/college-of-wizardry-part-ii/]Read more... )

[Reposted from larp guide http://larp.guide/2015/04/college-of-wizardry-part-i/]Read more... )

My brain does not work first thing in the morning. Homo Precaffeinens, I stumbled about the kitchen like a blind hog in a chocolate shop. I could snuffle for truffles all I wanted, but in the end everyone would be disappointed ( Read more... )

I woke up in the night with the tentacles of a cold wrapped around my throat. It is sore this morning, on one side only as through I have swallowed a safety razor. I am waiting for the painkillers to kick in so that I may do talking. In the mean time I am drinking coffee for medicinal purposes rather than for pleasure ( Read more... )

Yesterday I presented Newsround on CBBC for the first time ( Read more... )

So London Fashion Week begins today. I am not terribly au fait with fashion. Other than reading iD magazine briefly in the 1980s and once getting into a ruck with a hack from The Face who was being a coked-up dickhead (TM) at a club in the 90s I have pretty much worn the same style of clothes on a day-to-day basis since '77[1 ( Read more... )

need a rhythm to my life. I get more done when I find the place where the beats drop. I sleep better, I wake up full of energy, I get things done ( Read more... )

Victoria Jane Ashton

Died February 14th, so many years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03yvf3r/w1a-episode-1

So my adventure began with a very slim plain bound volume, of no more than fifty pages. The cover - almost certainly not original - was plain white. No name on the front or on the spine. It smelt of old book. The pages were dry, like leaves. I wrote in my notes about the book plate in the front. It had once belonged to someone called ( Read more... )