Jim Webster's Blog, page 55
July 18, 2014
Life without a camera in a world focused on cute cat pictures
A lot of years ago I used to take photographs. Somewhere I’ve got a fair heap of slides taken when I was on Iceland or visited Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent. I suppose I was encouraged to do it and then people, desperate for something to fill a calendar used to ask whether I did slide …
July 11, 2014
Magical Places
I was told that you were a person of culture if you could hear the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. Yet I told someone that a friend of mine had been to Argos and they asked whether it was to buy something or collect an Amazon purchase. I got a message …
July 4, 2014
Play up, play up and play the game.
I was thinking about fairness. It’s just that I’ve been reading volume 1 of Cassell’s ‘History of India’ by James Grant. To be fair it really ought to be entitled ‘The History of the British in India’ but that’s beside the point. It was published in 1898, this is now, and that was then. But …
June 27, 2014
Marketing, yeah well whatever.
It’s all well and good having written a book, what about selling it? Not wanting to talk dirty or anything, but seriously people, you’ve poured a lot of time into the who literary process, so it wouldn’t hurt to get a few bob back. After all, a couple of weeks back I talked about how …
June 20, 2014
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nakedslavegirl for sale comics fantasy, Don’t come the raw prawn Bruce. I’ve been busier that a one-armed carpenter during boat race week. I’m out there are the cutting edge, pushing the envelope, creating great art. But funnily enough I’m not sure people want great art. One of the interesting things about writing a blog is …
June 17, 2014
Weight loss, the easy way.
Whilst I’m old enough to remember the great long hospital wards with no curtains, no privacy, just an endless line of beds, I don’t remember the world before the NHS. But I do remember some of the jokes and stories they used to tell of the early days. One I remember was told by a …
June 13, 2014
You win some, you lose some
When dealing with the incalculable lunacy of the Department of Work and Pensions it’s probably good to be able to count up to ten, slowly, before exploding and quoting the immortal words of Ford Prefect to the Golgafrinchans, “You’re a bunch of useless loonies.” I was off sick for a fortnight after having my gallbladder …
June 9, 2014
So how much money is there is this book writing job anyway?
People do occasionally ask this question. Normally they’re too polite; sometimes they just assume the money just keeps rolling in. Other times when they actually meet me they make the inspired guess that it doesn’t put my amateur status at risk. There again, perhaps it’s the new bathroom that leads to them jumping to conclusions. …
June 6, 2014
Dogs, Dreams and Fairy tales.
Do you believe in fairies? Do you believe in Richard Dawkins? Or is he just a creature dreamed up by a wicked school master to make sure you stay at your desk and concentrate of differential calculus rather than daydreaming? He’s stirred up quite a few comments, pretty well all of them unfavourable. This …
May 29, 2014
If the cap fits
Finally, after extensive field trials and a no little personal hardship and expense I am finally able to announce to a waiting world the results of my labours. Lesser men would have cavilled at the cost, never mind the loss of personal dignity. But for those of us born to explore the outermost fringes of …
