‘Come to the printing museum,’ they said. ‘It will be fun,’ they said…. To be honest, I wasn’t sure the Penrith Museum of Printing was something I’d be interested in. The whole idea of walking around looking at equipment I have no idea about, sounded boring. In fact, so as ...

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I’ve often wondered how you’d know if you were one of the Missing. You might think the project has petered off and will no longer be finished, I can understand how you might think that, I mean, with Terry Pratchett gone don’t all projects stop? He’s gone we no longer have a reason ...

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Trigger warnings Before I go any further. There’s violence in this film. Yes, a film review because I know so much about movies that I can review them…sarcasm mode completely kicked in…but onto the movie! I’ll lose the sarcasm mode while I scribble some words that could possibly be construed as praise. ...

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Going Postal by Terry Pratchett It was inevitable you’d get some Terry Pratchett thoughts today, Saturday was the first anniversary of his death and we have all been very sad. The Victorian Discworld Klatch community commemorated the day with a few craft activities in Treasury Gardens on Saturday, it was a quiet time ...

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Why do you think I’m obsessed with Terry Pratchett? I don’t understand that thought you’re having… The book guy at Elwood Primary School Market was thrilled to the back teeth when I took photos of his stock while he was setting up. He happily told the next person who came ...

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Yesterday was Sir Terry Pratchett’s birthday. This year he is 65 and we celebrate every year he is still alive and compos. I thought it  would be appropriate to take a few minutes to dwell on what Pterry means to me. Books Pratchett has written about 40 books about Discworld, ...

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Thanks to the kids for borrowing this fabulous book from the library! They talk about authors writing better as they age and there’s been discussion about Agatha Christie and how her writing became a little less great as she aged and probably acquired Alzheimers or some other form of dementia. ...

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I’b been there before and knew exactly where to go so please tell me why I didn’t go straight up the stairs as soon as I got through the doors. As I was going up the stairs the adrenalin started as I recalled the last time I was at the ...

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Yesterday I was part of a flash mob.  It wasn’t a large mob but it was fun and I’m exhausted.  We were advertising the Fourth Australian Discworld Convention, we had our first batch of flyers and were off to advertise! You can find some details of the organising of the ...

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I figured there’s just time enough to fit in another Terry Pratchett before the Third Australian Discworld Convention (aka Nullus Anxietas 3 or NA3) starts on Friday. For some lucky people the fun and games start on Thursday as they get together for some stargazing with Sir Pterry but I’m ...

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Terry Pratchett Challenge 2010 The Bromeliad Trilogy by Terry Pratchett is also known as Truckers, Diggers and Wings. They are a fabulous little set of books and take a serious look at religion and it’s beginnings. They’re aimed at kids but are readable by any age. Truckers was made into ...

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What happens when Death takes an apprentice? Thanks to Sir Terry Pratchett you can find out. Mort by Sir Terry Pratchett is the story of Death and his apprentice, Mort. Mort is not very good at anything, he tends to think too much about things and his father takes him ...

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I’m just joining Teaser Tuesday. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: * Grab your current read * Open to a random page * Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page * ...

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I was happily working my way through my blogs today and found Tony Martin had dropped some names in his blog. A bit careless of him and I hope one day he’ll pick them up again but for the moment I’ll just link to his post so you can see ...

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Squid Ink - The Last Continent We give our grateful thanks to Terry Pratchett for being such an understanding man and letting us get away with creating cartoons from his works. P.S. Is that enough grovelling? ...

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