Well, it really is. Here I am, reading up on Romanian folk music, after having been informed that it wasn’t at all the same thing as the muzica lautareasca I posted about earlier – shame on me for propagating bad information – when I come across this: and it turns out that here is another…
I’ve had Ely Apple Day on my mind for a week. I blogged about it last week, full of enthusiasm with the memory of good dancing and good music on a day when it didn’t rain, even though it looked like it wanted to. I’d been looking forward to seeing the photos, but when we…
Ow, ow. What possessed me to think I could research 18th Century Romania and the Ottoman Empire at the same time? A hopeless naivety towards the available source material, I suspect. There’s too much on Istanbul and not enough on Bucharest, and I’m never going to get a handle on just enough of it to…
I feel I ought to blog, but only because you’re supposed to blog once a week on a regular basis. It doesn’t mean I’ve actually got anything to say. I had a very nice day on Saturday, dancing at Ely Apple Day with the Riot. We were unusually together and danced with both vigour and…
Charlie’s answers are over here. WIP meme What is the title of the book you’re currently working on? The Glass Floor (temporary title as the actual glass floor got left behind in an older idea for the plot.) Where did the idea come from for the book? I have absolutely no idea. You can’t expect…
If there was one thing that came out of the UK Meet for me (and actually there were several) it was the importance of voice. Let me say that again, because I don’t think I used enough emphasis. It was the importance of an author’s VOICE. Aleks Voinov speaking on behalf of publishers everywhere, and…
Heh, or perhaps it just feels like that. I’m still struggling with Frankenstein’s computers, but in keeping with the spirit of the month I’ve managed to do a post about vampires. Appropriately enough, this is an undead post, which had to be resurrected in pieces after the upstairs computer died from exhaustion and confusion due…
Gah, I hate this laptop. It’s OK as a temporary thing the family can take on holiday when the PC has to be left behind. It’s marvellous as a temporary emergency replacement for the PC when the PC is broken. But the keyboard stinks – when I type, I brush the trackpad with the heel…
The UK Meet was brilliant this year, better than last, I think. I very much appreciated the constant flow of coffee, and the fact that there was fresh fruit to snack on all day long (though I was greatly tempted by the curly-wurlies.) I had been all ‘goodie bags? Who the heck cares about getting…
I am still around after the UK Meet, but I got home to find my computer, which had been finding it hard to get started in the morning, was now thoroughly kaput. It’s still not mended, as the motherboard and cpu bought to put in it are not willing to talk to each other, but…
