Merry Christmas, everybody ( Read more... )

Been at the bottom of the pit recently. Slowly surfacing. Particularly as I've found my copy of 101 German Verbs, which was hiding under a TV guide dating from the second of January. January! That should show you how often we clean in this house. Well, at least I can swot up on verbs in this grammatical beast of a language. What you can do with it ( Read more... )

Yes, finished novel on time. 72,500 words. Percentage that make sense... ooh, at least 75%. Number of ridiculous typos: 3 (including the infamous "peeing over my shoulder" instead of "peering"). Inches of snow since last week: ten. Ten inches. This is England. It's not meant to snow this much! Our plantpots look like they are wearing UshankasI ( Read more... )