The video of the bypass inauguration
Just so you can see how mad I am. Yes, that’s me pratting about with the speech and the scissors. And you can see a “before” photo of the bypass here.
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Too busy
Well I’ve bitten off more than I can chew, just for a change. I’m doing one online course on character emotions, and another on copywriting. It’s not that I want to write leaflets to sell double-glazing (nobody wants that in English here anyway). I want to be able to sell my own stuff from my website, and I want to write query letters so good that editors just have to…
S/C Flea Market
On the first Sunday of every month, the port car park gets taken over by a flea market. It’s only small, but I love it. This morning a couple of hours slipped by very fast. There’s an amazing variety of stuff on sale. For some reason there are lots of flowers, plants and vegetables. This morning I stocked up on herbs. Most of the stuff is cheap, but this stall…
Victory!
For those of you who’ve spent the last three months off the planet, the Hollywood writers have been on strike. They wanted to be paid for internet distributions. After all, the studio get paid and the actors get paid, and i thinkthe camera men get paid too. They won most of what they demanded. Hurrah! It really annoys me the number of places that don’t pay writers. I once had…
Boring
On Tuesday I felt tired and out of sorts, so I got very little done apart from a bit of housework and a bit of novel. I didn’t even make pancakes, Shrove Tuesday or not. Yesterday I felt rather better, and made some modest progress. I threw away some clutter. The ironing pile shrunk. The new blog got up to ten posts, RSS feed and links to friends and Blogrush….
A Small Rock in the Atlantic
For some time now, I’ve felt that this blog is a right dog’s breakfast. So I’ve created a new blog about the island of La Palma. The rest of the dog’s breakfast is staying here, for those who like dog’s breakfasts. Dogs, presumably. Well maybe serendipity would be a better word.