Bleh

I have no excuse for the lack of posts really….. A close friend of ours passed away and we went to her funeral a couple of days ago, then a couple of bikers died in an accident up north who I had seen when I goto pitstop cafe but never actually spoke to. I got…

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The best writing time?

I am at the moment trying to find the best time for me to do writing as part of a routine. It’s not so much when I am off as I can usually manage something then, it’s when I am back at work and I need to get into a routine of sorts. Although I…

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Aviel

So I have fully moved onto world building for the new Fantasy novel, NaNo is out of the window. I did do some writing at the writing group meetups for NaNo but by then I had started looking at a new book. It’s strange as I have been concentrating on Sci-fi for a long time…

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Scotland Trip #VanLife

It’s been a quiet time on the blogs and with writing in general. I am trying to start planning for 2026 as I would really like to get something done with writing finally. I am currently sat in my Campervan in Scotland at a town called Annan. It’s a stopover for our trip to Scotland…

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The end of the world

Sometimes I write this blog and I think maybe someone will stumble upon it one day, but given we are in the throes of a pandemic may be the apocalypse I have been reading about for so long is with us and before long we will all be wandering through a dystopian world trying to…

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Nom de plume

“An assumed name used by a writer instead of their real name; a pen-name:” Oxford Dictionary I will start this by saying I understand why some writers feel the need to use a pen name, maybe they are are writing in a genre they are not usually known for. Or they want to see how well…

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Stress

There a quite a few things going on in my life at the moment that I am not going to go into here but it is adding to the stress and getting in the way of what I need to get done 🙁 I am writing this to get me in the mood for spending…

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Blog 5 – 6th September 2015

The wife is a robot, I have never seen anyone walk so much with no complaint, me and the kids are knackered halfway through the day and she is telling us to stop moaning and keep up. By teatime we are struggling to carry on  but she is fine, it’s inhuman 🙂 We were up…

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sigh….

I have done it again, nearly a month without posting and although part of that was due to my internet suddenly deciding that despite working for the last few years it would block me from accessing my hosted webspace where this blog is located. So I couldn’t access any of the sites. they were still…

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Test from Links

This post was done using the text based browser links, from Linux mint. I really do love the way Linux makes me go right back to the early days of using the command line, while managing to stay with the times.

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