Found an interesting LJ newsletter

Most of my hobbies include a craftwork element. Since finding out that Steampunk was the same, I’ve been having a crack at making my very first prop. I’m not 100% sure about this, but I think it’s a good first go. First of all, I was lucky enough to find a pair of these: in…

(though rather expensive liquid history at that.)  Naval lovers with more money than sense can now buy a bottle of authentic Navy rum, from the Royal Navy’s last remaining stocks, held in stone flagons in HM bonded warehouses since “Black Tot Day” in 1970, when the tradition of the daily rum ration for Royal Navy…

I now haven’t written anything since mid November and I suspect I won’t write anything more for the rest of the year, given that my children break up from school on the 17th and I will be having to keep them entertained until they go back again in January. I feel a bit lost, to…

I finished the first draft of Blue Steel Chain on Thursday. That’s very abrupt, isn’t it? I feel there needs to be some kind of introductory word just to break the ice and indicate I’m about to say something… So, I finished the first draft of Blue Steel Chain on Thursday. I was going to…

After a massive anxiety attack, Sam Atkins left his high-powered job in the City and committed himself to life on the road in a small van. Six months in, he’s running out of savings and coming to the conclusion that he might have to go home to his emotionally abusive family. Needing time to think,…