My finger is still improving. It'll take until the end of the month for near-full operation to be regained, it's still sore in places and there is a definite kink in it now, but every day or so I notice an improvement ( Read more... )

This was the title of the programme I watched a few days ago, the last in the trilogy of Terry Pratchett documentaries about him and the Early Onset Alzheimers that was slowly destroying his mind. It was... hard to watch at times. The most brutal bit was at the beginning where he was being interviewed and was fighting to find the right word to say ( Read more... )

Picked up a few bits and pieces over the past few weeks. One of the most memorable, for me at least, was a 1st edition "Changeling the Dreaming". This was the first White Wolf, World of Darkness title I'd been compelled to acquire, back in 1995. I knew about Vampire, Werewolf and the others, but this is the one that appealed to me mainly due to its ( Read more... )

Sir Terry Pratchett is dead. Killed today at the age of 66 by the early onset Alzheimer's that he referred to as "The Embuggerance ( Read more... )

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This is from the Somerset town of Wincanton where, earlier in the year, Terry Pratchett turned up to name some streets in a new housing estate after streets in the fictional Discworld town of Ankh-Morpork, which the town is ( Read more... )