I have discovered a forgotten birthday present from my parents-in-law, which is a voucher for downloads from Amazon.co.uk. Hurray! Also, I’m going off to an internet-free, bookshop-free long weekend spent in a field, and after driving to and from France last week I’ve read all the books on my ebook reader. These are two things…
like a fiddler’s elbow, that’s me this week. Wednesday was our 20th wedding anniversary, which I forgot about. Fortunately, Andrew forgot about it too, so there were no hard feelings on his side, and nothing but relief on mine. We went up North to see my Dad instead of celebrating, which made for a long…
And finally (nearly) caught up on my 300 odd emails, my unpacking, washing and putting everything away, and my two days of being poleaxed by diet induced migraine, which still hasn’t entirely gone away. (Have started the Harcombe diet, as after 3 weeks of calorie counting I was utterly fed up of being hungry. But…
I’m off on holiday tomorrow. We’re going to go somewhere just outside St. Malo for a week. This will give me ample opportunity to look around St. Malo, where a couple of chapters of Shining in the Sun take place. I got my description of the place from guidebooks and Google street view, so I’m…
OK so you probably have to be born in the USA to understand the legal shilly-shallying about Prop 8 and gay marriage in California, and what, if anything, it implies for the rest of the country. First marriage was OK, then it wasn’t, now it is again but not until next week, and the anti-marriage…
Oh no! I suffer from all of these! Fortunately (or not) I know I’m not alone. In fact, I just finished reading a book which was such a martyr to this one that I’m going to quote it whole: Imprecision: When writers just miss the target ground with their word using they on occasion elicit…
Spent today taking my youngest to the dentist. This is pretty much the story of the holidays – non stop ferrying one or the other of them about. Though I can’t be hard on her for needing to go to the dentist, poor child! In writerly news, I have just passed the 100,000 word mark…
and I may have a new fandom 🙂 What an excellent film! I do like a film where I come away from it with a head that feels as if it’s been stuffed full of new and interesting things to think about. I’m not a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, and this hasn’t really changed that. …
Cassie at Joyfully Reviewed has done a lovely review of Shining in the Sun. She says I wasn’t sure how I would feel about Shining in the Sun, given that Alex Beecroft is primarily a historical writer. After reading it, I can only say I hope Ms. Beecroft decides to write another contemporary soon, because…
(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…
