I have recently been given the moderatorship of a Yahoo EGroup known as polpop which is about Polish popular culture. It was originally run by Malcolm Davidson who lived in Gdansk. Other prominent members are Jim Martin who wrote PUSH NOT THE RIVER which is a really good Polish historical novel that you can order from Amazon.



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I am getting to love the Gekko version of Majong. I had grown up knowing this computer game as Shangai and at first ten years ago in the third form I had got very fustrated playing it all the time. Yet I learnt strategy and now at present I can solve most problems before level 13 in three minutes. I solved the 1st one in SIX SECONDS. It was so easy ( Read more... )

Four hours after I wrote previous entry ( Read more... )

Am not well, had major PTSD trigger. Weather horrible as well. Did lots of proofreading-that's when shock happened (about an hour ago). As you will see in title that's what pushed me over the edge, and this while typing up Educating Tadeusz and Tennis at the Collegiate-thus re-living 1995-6 in a big way but not so big as three years ago at this ( Read more... )

It is half past ten at night and I am hearing and seeing many storms. My rheumatoid arhtritis is fine except for a few small aches. I think having left Kings College has made me a tiny bit stronger in some ways. Of course I don't take a lot of initiative, being an indulged only child. I hope I will be able to ring Derrick if the phone isn't cut off ( Read more... )

Some thoughts after looking at anorexic sites (especially the pro ones ( Read more... )

: "I see that what really troubles people most and what they deceive themselves about most --because they won't admit to it-- is loneliness. It's the fact that they haven't got anybody to talk to about really important matters. It's the fact that through the increasing ease of everyday life what used to be so important has, as it were, disappeared ( Read more... )

She's a true believer ( Read more... )

My watch is acting up as usual, the little silver one that Aunty Eileen gave me. I set the computer clock to that watch and only by looking up at the microwave do I realise that I have seriously underestimated the time by as much as an hour or more, and this is having implications for my Internet time. I wrote reviews supposedly an hour earlier ( Read more... )