I got a freebie from GUD magazine. GUD stands for Greatest Uncommon Denominator, “a print/pdf magazine with two hundred pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, art, and articles”. I love freebies – don’t we all. In this case the freebie was a story, “Baby Edward”, and it was weird. I like weird. The baby is kipt locked up in a VW Bus in the yard, but he’s growing –…
I came across an interesting fact today. The average plastic bag is used for about 20 minutes, and takes 400 years to completely decompose. I have a couple of cotton tote bags that I take to the supermarket. I don’t make a religious duty out of it or anything. If I forget them, or I need a third bag, I get a plastic one. Even so, I calculate that I’m…
I went to see my friend Norma for a delicious, full English breakfast. Since I had to climb up the hill, I hope I burned almost as many calories as I ate. We talked about my novel-in-progress and her CD-in-progress, and Ruido magazine. And then, as per usual, I started taking photos. There’s something about the light at her house that sets me off. That and her amazing tolerance as…
They ahven’t still been up on the walls, you understand. I dumped them in the guest room to get them out of the way, pending a sort through, because I know darn well I’ll never sort through them in December. Well this morning I finally did it. I didtched the tatty stuff and mended the nativity scene, and packed it all away neatly. And the novel’s up to 72,023 words.
Where does Father Christmas go for his holidays? To Santa Cruz. (You may groan.) Anyway, I went to Santa Cruz this morning to meet my friend Norma and drop shoes off for mending – yes we still have a shoe mender. And here’s a roofscape from beside the park.
