Fantastic 4

I have been hearing since this film came out that it is terrible, one of the biggest flops of the year, this has made me lethargic about seeing it. But it was never going to stop me as I am fond of saying and as some friends point out I am easily pleased. Unfortunately, this…

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Google and the Pi

I often remark to my grown up kids (18,19) at the lack of skills with computers in their generation, when I was their age I was playing around in DOS and writing silly little programs in basic, that is the kind of thing that got me into wanting to work with computers. If the PC…

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Post Apocolyptic

I used to like watching the odd post apocalyptic series or movie, but now it seems they are everywhere.  The walking dead the most visible i assume but others are all over. Last night I heard of a series called the last ship that follows survivors of the end of the human race that are…

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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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Hello there

It’s been nearly two months, I thought I was at a place of regular writing but that hasn’t been the case. Camp Nano was a bust, I didn’t do much at all for it. I was chosen to be on a jury for the British Fantasy Society award, Best Anthology. So I have been reading…

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Writing Conferences

I am a subscriber in three writing magazines and when I am reading through I am forever seeing advertisements for writing conferences or retreats. It’s frustrating as I really like the look of these but for someone like me they are out of my reach. Most of them are down south, there don’t appear to…

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