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Vale, Barbara
“She left Orders.” Tam emphasised the word. “Everything to go on as normal; there would be time and enough later ( Read more... ) -
It's marion's fault
She said to look this up on LJ, and I have, and it *needs* wider retelling.
So "Dog and Sweet Potato"
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Okay, trying Again
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Diary entry (slghtly expanded) from 2002
“Formally, it’s the Inner Sea, fringed by about twenty towns and innumerable villages - the men who sail it call it the Pond, however and know their ports by the name of their main dockside tavern. So they sail from the Blue Dolphin to the Ragged Sail, from the White Bones to the Parrot and Heart. In fact, it’s more confusing than that: the White ( Read more... ) -
And we're *still* here
... till Friday. try the veal -- they tell me it's excellent.
A Diary piece [for those of you who don't know, for many years now Zander (smallship1) and I have been keeping intermittent diaries, to assemble our writing and musings) fom 1992, and from the days after Soren started being covertly domestcated ( Read more... ) -
Diary for April 15 1993
From the bridge the black infinity stretched away in all directions. Here the homeship hovered on the edge of the Galactic Void, the great rift between one galactic cluster and the next, gazing out at a tiny swirl which, unguessed light-aeons away, represented another population of galaxies, steadily progressing outward from the First Centre. Or, ( Read more... ) -
Belated
Soren, of the Nyrond, speaks:Zander is always complaining about my "sidelines" -- the little flourishes I apply to my coups, often involving person of the feminine persuasion tending to my sciatica. So I thought, to be fair, I would excerpt something appurtenant thereto -- an occasion on which, even I admit, I may have over-juiced the Warp Drive ( Read more... ) -
The (usual) apology
I started to do Xmas cards (being so Politically Incorrect as to still, in this advanced and refined Twenty-First Century England, celebrate a religious holiday) when I realised that, if I ever knew land-side addresses for many/most of the friends, I have undoubtedly mislaid them.
And I'm a lazy so-and-so.
So here
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Day Out ...
... at a Magna Carta Festival at Odiham in Hampshire. Could have done without the 25 minuets walk from the parking zone we used to the site. Especially when it turned out there were spaces *much* nearer. But ( Read more... ) -
Overheating ....
... due to money is pursepiration