Autopilot
We had our weekly dancing lesson this morning. Our instructor, Joanna, is working on my ballroom frame (at our request I should add). Chest out! Shoulder blades together! Shoulders down! Elbows up! Knees bent! Look left! Believe it or not you’re supposed to remember...
Christmas Fayre 2023
Doesn’t time fly? It feels like only a few months since I posted about last year’s village Christmas Fayre, yet I’ve just returned from this year’s KSM Christmas Fayre. There were a few differences. I had a different table this year, whereas I was by the entrance last...
Schrödinger’s Cat
On 29th November 1935 Erwin Schrödinger published his famous paper on his thought experiment examining the paradox behind the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. In this thought experiment, a cat is placed inside a sealed box along with a radioactive...
Improvement
There was something that I forgot to mention in my last post. I was writing about the CWA interview on the publishing revolution and hybrid authors. Barry said that it takes time to build up a career in writing. I’m not sure what he meant by that. It implies...
Publishing Revolution
The CWA hosted a clinic last night titled, Publishing Revolution: The New Hybrid Author. The experts were J.D Kirk and Melissa Addey. J.D. Kirk is the nom de plume for his DCI Jack Logan crime novels set around his home in Scotland. His name is actually Barry...
Writing Progress
At last I feel that I’m making good progress with Book 5 of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Yesterday I wrote 1,800 words, and I have one scene to write to complete chapter one. That might make chapter one around 9,000 words. My last two books, The Suggested...
Pilgrim
I’m a pilgrim, as the certificate confirms. I walked the Camino de Santiago in 2019. I hope with all my heart that peace may be found in the Middle East, and found soon. I hope for peace for Jews, Palestinians, and all those who live in and visit the region, whether...
The Tiger in the Smoke
I have just read The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham. It’s an Albert Campion Mystery. I posted recently about an article in Red Herrings, where she is noted as one of the four queens of the golden age of crime writing. According to Wikipedia, J.K. Rowling...
The Chartists and The Newport Rising
Thirty soldiers and a few armed special constables were holed up on 4th November 1839 in the Westgate Hotel in Newport, South Wales. They might have expected to face overwhelming odds, because about five thousand Chartists were marching to Newport. The British weather...
Autopilot
We had our weekly dancing lesson this morning. Our instructor, Joanna, is working on my ballroom frame (at our request I should add). Chest out! Shoulder blades together! Shoulders down! Elbows up! Knees bent! Look left! Believe it or not you’re supposed to remember...
Christmas Fayre 2023
Doesn’t time fly? It feels like only a few months since I posted about last year’s village Christmas Fayre, yet I’ve just returned from this year’s KSM Christmas Fayre. There were a few differences. I had a different table this year, whereas I was by the entrance last...
Schrödinger’s Cat
On 29th November 1935 Erwin Schrödinger published his famous paper on his thought experiment examining the paradox behind the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. In this thought experiment, a cat is placed inside a sealed box along with a radioactive...
Improvement
There was something that I forgot to mention in my last post. I was writing about the CWA interview on the publishing revolution and hybrid authors. Barry said that it takes time to build up a career in writing. I’m not sure what he meant by that. It implies...
Publishing Revolution
The CWA hosted a clinic last night titled, Publishing Revolution: The New Hybrid Author. The experts were J.D Kirk and Melissa Addey. J.D. Kirk is the nom de plume for his DCI Jack Logan crime novels set around his home in Scotland. His name is actually Barry...
Writing Progress
At last I feel that I’m making good progress with Book 5 of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Yesterday I wrote 1,800 words, and I have one scene to write to complete chapter one. That might make chapter one around 9,000 words. My last two books, The Suggested...
Pilgrim
I’m a pilgrim, as the certificate confirms. I walked the Camino de Santiago in 2019. I hope with all my heart that peace may be found in the Middle East, and found soon. I hope for peace for Jews, Palestinians, and all those who live in and visit the region, whether...
The Tiger in the Smoke
I have just read The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham. It’s an Albert Campion Mystery. I posted recently about an article in Red Herrings, where she is noted as one of the four queens of the golden age of crime writing. According to Wikipedia, J.K. Rowling...
The Chartists and The Newport Rising
Thirty soldiers and a few armed special constables were holed up on 4th November 1839 in the Westgate Hotel in Newport, South Wales. They might have expected to face overwhelming odds, because about five thousand Chartists were marching to Newport. The British weather...