I really, REALLY want a week when I have zero church stuff to do. This week I'm attending a book launch, sorting hymns for Lent, and preparing a talk for 6 March (although it will be the last for a while). I would also be doing the liturgy for Lent if I had the church laptop with me but that will now have to wait for next week *sigh ( Read more... )

I really don't know where 2017 has gone. How is it the middle of February already ( Read more... )

So, in my (almost) 16 years at LJMU I've now had 11 line managers, 6 job titles (but have really only done 4 distinct roles across 4 different departments), and 12 (soon to be 13) desks. Yeah ( Read more... )

My 'morning writing time' has been taken up with a 'Horror Haiku' challenge this week. More here. I'm not sure what I produced really counts as horror but it features a vampire, so I'm going to send it in. Watch this space ( Read more... )

I gave myself a bit of a break from NaNo planning to watch the final episode of TNG last night. And yes, I had a tear or ten in my eye during the last scene. I really like the way they rounded it all off. Next, it's DS9 from the beginning!

Oh, and I've ordered Kingsglaive from Lovefilm. VERY excited about that.

I have a new F3 story up - here. It ( Read more... )

So, I finished my job application on Thursday. I think it's a good application but I don't know who else will apply or what they will bring in terms of relevant experience that I just don't have. For example, I have a good hunch a former colleague will go for it who did a maternity cover in that team and loved it. However, they didn't have my ( Read more... )

Spark is now available in hard copy as well as on Kindle! I think that's Christmas sorted - just buy everyone a copy and sign it. They'll be worth a fortune one day ( Read more... )

I got through a bumper stack of 6 TNG episodes yesterday, including 'Chain of Command', which is one of the few I remember clearly watching before. I'm not sure exactly when I stopped watching TNG but I remember that episode and one about a silicon-based life-form that calls the crew 'ugly bags of mostly water' :D And one about Troi in an alternate ( Read more... )

I completed a Flash Fiction Friday challenge last night, the first since March! You can read it here. It's a mystery story, which should probably be carefully planned out so that all the twists happen in the right places and the mystery is revealed at the end. But it's also a flash piece by me, so the ending is far from conclusive ( Read more... )

During my weekly reflection yesterday, I was very pleased by the number of meetings I'd attended that actually felt like they were making a difference, both from a personal point of view and a work one ( Read more... )