Monthly Archives: November 2011

…which was nice.

In the dark days of winter it’s sometimes easy to lose sight of one’s achievements. This is just a personal list of things to remind myself that I’m not utterly useless or unlucky. S39 – a new ‘flagship’ studio for … Continue reading

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November spawned a monster

Or, My NaNoWriMo Hell It was a mad, spur-of-the-moment decision. I hadn’t thought it through. A couple of friends were doing NaNoWriMo – and I thought, what the hell, why not? 50,000 words in a month, 1666 words a day. … Continue reading

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Circus Peanut Butter

I’ve been clearing out my locker at work and found many iced gems on reel-to-reel audio tape. Perhaps oddest of all was a reel of American advert jingles from the 60s and 70s that I have no memory of – … Continue reading

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