1.My pamphlet is out, finally, hooray etc. £4.95 from me or other places. Its very pretty. You can feel the barcode and indeed, my name, on the cover.

2. The director of the trust is leaving. http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/press/index.asp?pageid=225

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Its sunday afternoon, I'm sitting in my new room, working, or trying to, and looking out at the rain. The mountains behind keep coming in and out of focus as the waves of cloud move over them. Midsummer, Cumbria.


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Not having to see the new 2012 Olympic Logo and animation springing up in my back yard, like a bit of the Queen 'Its a kind of Magic Video' that fell through a wormhole into 2007. It was great, in 198?7 I think?, with freddie as the magician, looking very Chrestomanci, and tying in nicely with the effects in Highlander. Not so cool, or 'fresh' as ( Read more... )

wonderful stormfilled has set up her website for her Blackthorn Workshop
http://blackthorn.workshops.googlepages.com/

Amazing full moon tonight; one of those perfect gothic ones, peeping through quickly moving banks of cloud. I keep meaning to write here this week and keep forgetting; theres a wondeful smell of greeness around at the moment; a sign of spring, I suppose, but being slightly cool of air still, it makes it feel like a coldish summer evening; it smells ( Read more... )

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its very hard to concentrate on reading french philosphy when there's hail pounding at your doors and windows like a giant rain-stick, and the wind whooing and roaring round the chimney like some angry deep-voiced animal. Its a good thing I'm reading about how houses come into their own in storms, how a house really becomes when it is neccessary, ( Read more... )

A rather late happy new year to you all, by the way. Much love and best wishes for the year to come ...

Joy to the world,
The polly is come.

Joy To The World
from the Christmas Song Generator.

This is much better than the result I got with my nom-de-keypad (altho probably less true):

Ha! okay, so not - I went back and re-did it, and instead of getting, 'xmas is coming, the vilebody is getting fat' as I did originally, I got:

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