I'm slowly getting my act together again. It is amazing how a few days away can throw everyone off their stride. It was a long journey home - we left at about 3.45 am and didn't get home until 6 pm - and one compounded by lousy weather and the fact that I felt like death warmed up. I had spent the previous evening throwing up, which I could really ( Read more... )

No, I'm not home yet, but everyone has gone out for the day to visit the Tyrone Crystal factory so I'm having a break from people and checking things like emails. I love them all dearly, but I'm all peopled out. As those who know me well have probably realised, I have a limit of how much sociability I can manage before I start climbing walls and ( Read more... )

I really need to sit down and write my fantasy story for 100 Voices in the Night. The deadlines for having those done ready for critiquing is sneaking up on me. The horror ones are done, as is the sci-fi one weirdly because I was expecting that one to be the hardest, but not the fantasy as yet. Well, that's not strictly too. I have the beginning ( Read more... )

Activity this weekend centred around things of a festive nature. Dad and I went shopping for presents on Saturday afternoon. This is my yearly purgatory. I loathe shopping with my father. Don't get me wrong, I love him dearly, but he is just awful around shops. As I actually asked him at one point (so you can probably see what fun we were both ( Read more... )