Two talented people have died this week. We’ve lost Jackie Collins and Yoram Gross. Collins wrote romance so I’ll never read them but I’ll pay tribute to her despite that. She was a prolific author and her works were read by many, with eight of her 32 novels being adapted for the ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
50 Shades and For Dummies As you know I’m horrified by the 50 Shades phenomenon, the writing is very poor and the BDSM is so wrong (I have this from a BDSM friend who talks about an escape word which does not appear to be evident) so I was not happy seeing this ...
Insert caption here: your meaning of ‘Backed beans’ I loved this cafe, food served pretentiously but with a bare bones menu complete with typos The Complete Borrowers by Mary Norton. Loved this series of adventures when I was young and just because they’re so great here’s a link to buy ...
Back in 2009 I wrote about Ladybird books. The focus was on the collectable value rather than the reading value or any other thought as that is where my mind was at that time, I was still selling preloved books online and giving value for money was uppermost in my thinking. Now ...
A quick apology for the lack of an article on Monday. I woke with a migraine, took my med and some painkillers before retreating to bed where I stayed until it was far too late to write. This is going to be one of those long and involved posts, I ...
Sometimes one should be a tourist in your own city. I was walking Degraves Street between classes getting food or coffee (possibly both) when I saw someone taking a photo of this building, when I looked up I understood. It’s the Majorca Building built by Harry Norris and only a ...
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara This is a powerful story about a boy growing up due to his love for a horse. He goes from being a dreamer who gets lost for an hour at a time looking at a painting to someone who can look after his sick horse and ...
I’m very excited! I had two classes yesterday and only started losing focus in the last half hour or two, they were great fun and I’m happy with my teachers and fellow students. You’ll hear bits and pieces of my classes as we travel through the year but I won’t ...
I went into the CAE (Council for Adult Education) yesterday for my orientation. We filled in numerous forms, listened to reams of advice and thoughts and then did some online testing. What this means for you for Friday Photos is more photos of things in the city. Can you spot the ...
Something is about to happen, I can feel it. Soon. Soon. The wind is getting worse. Something’s out there. Have to go find out what. Sniff butts! Yeah, it’s a wind. And here’s the rain. Should be home, Tori will worry…those humans worry so much. But…sniff butts! Oooh, this wind ...
Today has been a struggle to find something to write about. I have ideas for articles but need to leave them to fester in my brain a bit and also do some research, I have to find a male science fiction author for tomorrow starting with J but that’ll be easy and ...
Hunting… Meat, smells of human. Fond of human, eat meat… More meat, eat meat… Still hunting… More meat, follow meat. Sniff strange rock. Smell of human. Meat inside, follow meat. Rock closes. Meat appears at odd intervals, smelling of human not my human. Long time in closed rock. Sometimes it ...
An Epithium am I…what? You’ve never heard of me! I should not be surprised, I was hand made by Miss Martha Grimstone’s father, he made compositions to control the weather and used me when playing them. There is only me, I am unique. When Mortimer Grimstone died Martha started playing me in ...
You know, Jack’s a decent kind of guy, I mean, he’s worked wonders with me. I’m brand new, no-one’s ever seen anything like me before and it’s all down to Jack. Jack the Inventor! But even inventors can have problems and school can have lots of problems. George Hamel is ...
Luke and Lulach are separated by a dream and a thousand years. While Luke is having trouble with a scholarship exam and coming to terms with Macbeth, the play written by William Shakespeare, Lulach is coming to grips with life without his father, the Mormaer of Moray. I’d heard Jackie ...