1108 is now posted, please read and review. It's short, only 1200 words ( Read more... )

I dropped the kids off at school at 9am this morning and I had until 6pm to myself as they were being collected from school and fed their dinner by their wonderful grandparents. Ergo, I had NINE hours to myself. I haven't had nine hours to myself since 2002 when my son was born. I was very excited ( Read more... )

Zeus, the python that talks to Harry Potter in the film 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' came to Alieu's birthday party! I didn't realise when I booked the reptile handler that he had done any film work, but it makes sense when you consider his location in Kent being so near the film studios ( Read more... )

"I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf ( Read more... )

I just had an email from the Chichester Observer newspaper asking me to attend the winners' presentation of their short story competition at East Pallant House Art Gallery next Thursday at 6pm ( Read more... )

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Don't get me wrong, I really like Dell Laptops. The build quality is great and the aftercare can be ok, as long as you can understand, and in some cases speak, pigeon English. But if something goes wrong with your hardware expect to pay a lot of money to get it fixed ( Read more... )

"If you have other things in your life -- family, friends, good productive day work -- these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer."
- David Brin

"Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence."
- Samuel Johnson

The children tipped orange juice all over one of my laptops. I had a breakdown from the stress, I'm sure of it. The hard drive appears fine, all data is retrievable and the motherboard cranked back into life about three hours later, but the jury is out on the keyboard and the pointer. I'm on a call back from Dell first thing Monday. Their A&E dept ( Read more... )

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