Limerick day on LJ

What a weekend!  I couldn’t keep up with it, especially as I spent Easter Monday in a field, out of range of internet connection.  However, now that I’m back, this is my understanding of the situation at present: #amazonfail twitter thread, started by storm_grant spreads to be a world wide phenomenon Numerous blogs, newspapers and…

I’ve enjoyed reading the 10 rules of famous writers in the Guardian’s Ten rules for writing fiction article.  I’ve just picked the ones that resonate most with me.  Some of them make a worthy list which puts me off ever reading any of their work, and some – Anne Enright in particular – sound so…

I feel like a real author now 🙂  I was looking on Amazon for the cover of Ursula LeGuin’s “The Left Hand of Darkness” and thought I would just check how False Colors was doing.  Not so bad, thankfully.  However, I did find that since I looked at it last I’d received my first ever…

The watch pocket. After getting a lovely antique silver Swiss pocket watch for my birthday – a non-functioning watch minus its minute hand – I finally got it back from the repairers last week. This made me wonder about how I was going to wear it. I had an Albert watch chain for it, but…