Snakes in Thailand
Snakes in Thailand I look out for snakes… but then I suppose most people do except the British and the Irish, because we don’t have many at home. After all, no-one wants to step on one in the grass or…
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Personal Style
Personal Style We all have our own personal style, our own way of doing things, don’t we? And we all know what we do and do not like – that’s part of it. I personally am not keen on Shakespeare.…
Progress
Progress The concrete boys were back today and surprised me yet again. Instead of just laying storm-water drainage, they are resurfacing the road (lane) to a depth of five or six inches with reinforced concrete. Now that’s what I call…
Sorry No Blog Post Today
Sorry No Blog Post Today I write my blog posts when I go for a beer, but that huge hole is still outside our house, which would have meant another detour of a mile and a half. I don’t mind…
Roadworks
Roadworks I mentioned the roadworks that the council started outside our house yesterday, which was on a Friday (?). That blocked the rear entrance to our house by all but a fifteen-inch earthen ‘bridge’. Well, this morning they came back…
Improvement
Improvement I now know what those twelve-inch concrete pipes are for as they have dug up the two access points to my house – storm-water drainage, as I think it’s called, as opposed to foul-water drainage. Whoever would have thought…
Pitching A Book
Pitching A Book I’ve just been pitching my book to a literary agent, like I’ve been talking about for a while, so I’m full of hope that this will be a big turning point in my career as a writer.…
Luxury
Luxury If buying books is a luxury, which it probably is, then the USA is doing far better than the UK, no matter what Cameron says. For the last six months, Americans have been buying more of my books every…
Death
Death Isn’t it strange how a lot of old people become sick, sometimes for a long time and then suddenly start to mend quite dramatically, only to die a week or two later? It’s as if all their energy is…
Site Upgrades
Site Upgrades I’m fully aware that this talk about site upgrades and link updates might be really boring to many of you, but the topic is taking up so much of my time these days that I am not getting…
Website Upgrades
Website Upgrades I started the link upgrades I have been talking about for the last few days, as regular readers will know, but after doing ten more last night, I began to think about the bigger problem of whether my…
Link Upgrades
Link Upgrades I started my link upgrades last night, but I’ll come back to that later. Two other things happened as well: I closed my Aweber account and I got kicked out of a writers’ group. The first is an…
Mental Cruelty
Mental Cruelty I have turned my attention away from ‘Asian Shorts’ temporarily, because it is ‘out there’ already and my novel isn’t. Not only that but 2,000-odd links on my websites will stop working on July 15th. thanks to Amazon…
Overplaying One’s Hand
Overplaying One’s Hand I love to see an arrogant man or woman overplaying their hand and wondering stunned how it happened that they lost. I watched it unfold today. A contributor to ‘Asian Shorts’ decided he had me over a…
Love is All
Love is All When I arrived at my local watering hole today, I was thinking of ‘Love is All’ as a title for my book, and the owner and her 70-odd year-old mother were sitting where I usually sit. It…
Follow-Up on ‘Asian Shorts’
Follow-Up on ‘Asian Shorts’ This is just a quick follow-up on ‘Asian Shorts’. A lot of the last seven weeks and nearly all of the last four days has gone into launching an anthology called ‘Asian Shorts’ which contains twenty…
Publication of Asian Shorts
Publication of Asian Shorts The day has dawned for publication. I’ve read through the whole manuscript for the fifth or sixth time, attached the authors’ contact details, assigned page numbers, formatted it and written the blurb for the back cover.…
Our Village
Our Village Yesterday I went on a pub crawl around our village. It is my romanticised way of saying that I walked around the village and had three pints in various shops. That’s all right, it gives me a connection…