1.56 am. It's going to be a very late working night given that I'm trying to get as much done as possible before I fly home, but I need a 5 minute break from pages of documentation about liquidation of PRC companies .... :P

I've written about how I dislike books that have characters Speaking Forsoothly before. This applies to fantasy, sci fi ( Read more... )

More on The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. I keep remembering little gems from it.

There's one point at which Detective Grant is visited by his colleague Sergeant Williams. In just a few words, Tey gives us a very clear picture of Williams. She says that he is "large and pink and scrubbed-looking". ( Talking shop )

It's Sunday night 8pm. I'm still at the office and I'm back at work tomorow. It is true, today is technically my birthday - but I'm cancelling my birthday this year. There will be no festivities. I received a huge bunch of flowers from my colleagues that said: 'Thank you for bringing so much happiness to us' but tonight ate my birthday dinner ( Read more... )

It's Saturday and we're at the office chugging away. I came in late today because I found myself lingering over my brekky and coffee.

First of all, autumn_whispers has written a fabulous Tim Riggins / Julie Taylor fic called all the stars are burning (for you). Totally non-canon of course but ... we...well all know how non-canon I can get sometimes :P ( Read more... )

I went home early-ish tonight (9.46 pm) because I have to go to work anyway tomorrow so I decided that I was losing my productivity by lingering around. My day was much better than poor Singapore Girl who started a meeting at 7am this morning and says that she's likely to keep going until 3am tomorrow. She sent me a message from her Blackberry ( Read more... )

Here are extracts from the book dealing with different characters studying the portrait( Read more... )