And Silvester greetings as appropriate ( Read more... )

I'm away with the morn.

See you all in 2014.

Right, where were we? Oh. Right.

I again commend to you - it having been part of the reason for my protracted absence - my new novel, Cross and Poppy, specifically the first in my new series of novels, Village Tales. I am honoured and chuffed to see that it has been very kindly reviewed. (I may add that some of you must surely immediately ( Read more... )

In the next few days and weeks, I shall be getting played back in on fests and comments. I shall also have a few things to say about the Ashes, and Trott, and the lost art of proper, not witless, sledging (I defy anyone to imagine the current sort of profane grunting being indulged by, say, Don Bradman and Alec Bedser ( Read more... )

Ad interim, this is for you lot:

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Quite soon, I shall at last be able to get back to such things as reading and commenting upon fests, responding to comments, and All That. I apologise for the delay, but press of business detained me (as the announcement shall explain).

Was working feverishly. Then became so. Still slightly under weather; am battening down for severe weather. Shall do best to get caught up in weeks to come. Apologies.
Also, please pray for neighbours in Nadder Valley, who are under flood watch.