Tough Guy 2016

It’s that time of year again, time to Marshall/ film at Tough Guy.  Me and Tracy and Hannah are here now milling around getting sorted. Busy weekend ahead, but always have a good time while working hard on the farm. Amazing people ?   

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Hello there dear stranger

It’s been a while. How have you been doing? I have had a busy year, and as such, certain hobbies have taken a back seat. Writing is one of them, but as we move ever closer to Fantasycon 2026, I find I am drawn back into this world and find I want to get it…

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Sigh…..

When I was writing everyday there was no literary gems as such but it was a way of getting me writing everyday, since I stopped doing that I have stopped doing everything. That isn’t what I was hoping to get from that exercise. I was hoping that would get me into a routine, suffice to…

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Life is…. annoying!

I was unprepared for NaNo but I was going to do it anyway. Then I was hit with another bout of Cellulitis infection. Not a nice thing to get and this time it was considerably worse than last time. This meant I was quite ill for over a week so got nothing done. Then I…

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Job interview and goals

I am again at an impasse. I am at a point in my professional life where its time for a new challenge so I have started looking for another job. As part of this I attended an interview yesterday fro a team leader position of a Finance Systems team. This highlighted that some of my…

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Fantasycon 2024

All checked in and in my room for the weekend. I am looking forward to the panels and books. I will be doing a proper post with some more info but just thought I would share this one, went to the lift and noticed above the toilet doors, that there were… toilets 🙂 Off to…

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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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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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Favorite quote

  Ocassionally I come across a good quote but my memory being what it is I often forgot. .. This one always stuck in my mind and was usually the signature on my tech posts. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the…

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