Susan Cooper – The Dark is Rising There are few books from my actual childhood that stand out. I’m not talking about late teens but when I was younger. I would equate these to the current generation talking about Harry potter. The first of these is The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, this is…
I have finally joined the long tradition of writing on a laptop in a cafe, well a Costa. Something about sitting here writing just makes it feel good, wish I could get the motivation more often, I might actually have something finished that way. Maybe this is what I should be doing instead of trying…
One of my summer procrastination TV shows starts today, something that I would normally class as a guilty pleasure. Some people hate it, some love it. I have been in both camps. 1st Season was amazing, but then it was new back then. I watched for the first few years then had a long break….
When I was a kid it cost 10p to use a BT phone box and there were not mobile phones, if you needed directory enquirers to find a number you didn’t need to take out a mortgage to do so. Today since the privatization there are now several companies offering this service. the most prevalent…
Just an update, and as you can imagine it isn’t good news. From all of the resolutions I have made the only two that seems to be getting held to is posting on here, but that is due to the new (old) Laptop I now have which I love to use. The other is the…
When I was looking at the year ahead in December I was, as usual, up for planning and making grand goals that I would achieve in this new year, new me, new life. Blah blah blah. my goal was: Writing 2 Weekly Blog 12 Short Stories Xmas Story NaNo April/Nov Shattered Worlds Novel Fitness Gym…
I nearly forgot, I need to get these planned and done in time so I am proving some good content. I have the Cineworld card and so I go to the cinema allot, I see most of the films that are released, all of the main ones that come out. I need to get some…
Well, today we were going to go to York as we won a day pass to ??? garden. But when we got up the weather was not supposed to be good. We decide to save the day pass for a better day. It took us a while to decide on what we were going to…
The Harry Potter series are one of my favourite books series and an undoubtedly phenomenal success written by J K Rowling, who until she shot to fame was a normal person, this is one of the things I like about her. Although the main films finished and they are now working on releasing more Fantastic…
I don’t like it…. I am one of those people that when I write a text it is grammatically correct, this mystifies some of the people I know. Whereas when I see people typing in text it drives me crazy. I know people that write in full text speak and more often than not I…
