I picked this up on Monday as part of a two-for-one deal at my local bookshop (the other book I picked up was "Coldheart Canyon" by Clive Barker but I shan't be reading that for a while as my other half has "borrowed" it for herself). In "Schild's Ladder", a terrible accident at a deep-space research facility twenty thousand years in the future ( Read more... )

It's been a few weeks since I wrote anything on here - time getting away from me once again as happens far too often these days.

( So what have I been up to? )

Hello again folks - this time, livejournal is set up to automatically announce my posts on facebook and twitter, how well this will work I have yet to see but fingers crossed it'll all be nice and seamless.

Due to popular demand, there is no picture of me at the front of this post, longship-smoking or not (thanks to chiv for pointing that out - no, I ( Read more... )

Did I loan you my copy of "V for Vendetta"*? If so, can I have it back?

Asked in the vain hope that I loaned it out rather than merely misplaced it somewhere in the house...

*the book, not the film

Good afternoon all -

I finished Harry Potter book six last night, and am eager to get on with book 7. Would any of those who bought and read it the other week be willing to loan me their copy?

Don't all shout at once...

*phew* goblin is asleep, so quick update

1. My shoulder is much better

2. Reading Neil Gaiman makes me want to listen to Tori Amos, and vice versa. I'm sure they must have some sort of subliminal message deal worked out between them...

A quick post about where I am with life at the moment... soul_rider and I have folks over for an early Christmas dinner today. Having eaten roast ostrich fillet, potatoes and vegetables earlier, they're all downstairs watching "Muppets Treasure Island" while I'm up here trying to persuade Evie to take a nap. I'm not winning ( Read more... )

OK, what have I been reading lately?

P.D. James' "The Children of Men"Science fiction thriller in which mankind can no longer produce offspring, civilisation begins to collapse, elderly can't cope and commit mass suicide, Britain becomes a police state, kittens are baptised, craziness ensues. In amongst it all is a pregnant woman, the first in ( Read more... )

Charitably minded, with bulging bookshelves? Read on...

HSBC Bank are pleased to be supporting Book Aid International’s Bring a book to work week, which begins on monday 9th October 2006 ( Read more... )

Don't forget folks, a week tomorrow is "Bats and Badgers" down at Rivelin Valley... From the Rivelin Valley Conservation Group website:

Tuesday 19th Sept

Bats and Badgers. Repeated by popular request. 8.00pm at the small car park at Hind Wheel Dam to see what our detectors can find and what evidence of other nocturnal activity there is.Hind ( Read more... )