I’ve decided to take this journal down for the summer months as it is a fearsome servant of procrastination.  See you all in September.

I am feeling overwhelmed to the point where I am making lists of things I need to do and then putting the approximate time and day I think I can do them beside them. Then my brother says, “so, do you want to climb Croagh Patrick?” Of course I say yes, despite the fact that there is actually no time on the list to buy the new shoes I need before I ( Read more... )

I think a month has passed. It must be time for a blog post. J

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A  couple of weeks ago I decided to make a serious stab at the very last  short story I wanted to write before devoting myself full time to my novel. With great delight, after about 2500 words had only made a dent in the opening, and introduced a fabulous new character and a twist I simply had to run with, I realised I had, yet again, a novel idea ( Read more... )

Does anyone else get annoyed about the proliferation of videos on the Internet? I am so fed up of spotting an interesting link only to get there and discover it’s a video. Not only a video, but part 1 of a series that runs for hours.

Have they no respect for my speed-reading skills? I can skilfully extract the usefulness out of any article in ( Read more... )

( Me, the snow, cabin fever and the apocalypse )

Apparently I will only be using LJ from now on to post YouTube videos. Still, it's more than I've been doing with my account for a while.

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I remember this guy winning Pop Idol 2001, (later replaced with the X Factor), and totally loving his voice. Now, years later, I finally get around to buying his greatest hits album. From this we can ( Read more... )

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If you have time check out out how she feels about Sleeping Beauty.

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Well, I am actually sorted for the holidays, in that I have bought everything that needs to be bought. Still haven't decorated the house yet. Maybe tomorrow. Or maybe I'll go for a minimalist Christmas. Granny O Grimm would approve ( Read more... )

I have spent something like three hours tonight searching for a memory stick and a set of keys.  Fruitlessly. I am fairly fed up because well, my memory stick’s got lots of my stuff on it, and, the set of keys are for work. The only positive in all this is that I’m fairly certain everything is still in the house. But I have no idea where, and I’ve ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning with a dead fly on my pillow. This would be more disturbing rather than particularly notable  if I hadn’t predicted this occurrence before I fell asleep.

It started like this. After I had been in bed for between ten and fifteen minutes, a fly zoomed past my face in the dimly lit darkness of my bedroom. Then it went quiet. ( Read more... )