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2 Perfect Recipes for the Holiday Season - #TipsTuesdays 16

Good morning and welcome to Tasha's Thinkings. Today I would like to revisit 2 recipes that I love and which are absolutely perfect for the holiday season, or any celebration actually.

2 Perfect Recipes for the Holiday Season
These are the prefect compliment to each other, or can be used completely separately, whichever is best for your party or gathering.

Last Minute Christmas Chutney (Easy)

Now this recipe is the perfect accompaniment to cold meats or cheeses, so for those in the UK, it's great...

Review: SPECTRE - Another Excellent Bond

My apologies for no Monster Monday today, but I wanted to post my review of SPECTRE, which I saw with my husband on Saturday :).

SPECTRE Another Excellent Bond
Cast:
Daniel Craig ... James Bond
Christoph Waltz ... Franz Oberhauser/ Blofeld
Léa Seydoux ... Dr. Madeleine Swann
Ralph Fiennes ... M (Gareth Mallory)
Monica Bellucci ... Lucia Sciarra
Ben Whishaw ... Q (Quartermaster)
Naomie Harris ... Eve Moneypenny
Dave Bautista ... Mr. Hinx
Andrew Scott ... C (Max Denbigh)
Director: Sam Mendes
Writers:&nb...

Dune - Politics, Sand and Mythology - #FanFridays 12

Hello and welcome to my blog this sunny Friday. It the day I get to geek out with all my fellow fans and today I am going for Frank Herbert's Dune. I very much hope you enjoy today's post.
Dune Politics, Sand and Mythology
So there are three versions of Dune to enjoy as well as two versions of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune:
The original books by Frank HerbertThe David Lynch Dune movie (1984) with Kyle MacLachlan and Francesca AnnisThe SyFy mini series, Dune and Children of Dune (which include...

Small Childhood Traumas - How They Shape Us #ThinkyThursdays 8

Small Childhood Traumas How They Shape Us
Now I'm not talking about big things like personal tragedy or abuse when I say "childhood traumas" because I'm not qualified to talk about such things. What I mean is the little things that stick with us and have helped shape our personalities.

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Amazon | OtherThis post was inspired by the fact that I walked out of the bedroom this morning to see slug trails all over the old dining room carpet (brought in by a kittie we suspect)....

Author Interview: Dave Higgins (Speculative Fiction) #WriterlyWednesdays 15

I hope you will join with me today in welcoming Dave Higgins, author and blogger, to Tasha's Thinkings. He very kindly agreed to be interviewed for Writerly Wednesdays and after you have enjoyed his answers to the scintillating questions, please check out his links and books :).


Dave Higgins Interview
Can you tell us a little about yourself?

I'm a voracious (or addicted) reader. In an average year, I’ll read well over a hundred books of various genres, and I have difficulty not reading...

How To Display the Blogger Labels Widget on a Separate Label's Page - #TipsTuesdays 15

So I reorganised all my Blogger labels at the weekend because they were messy and not very helpful and I also looked into how to Display Blogger labels on their own page (mine is called Blog Topics), like the tags page on LJ so they were easier to see. I had a few issues, so I decided to write it up.

How To Display the Blogger Labels Widget on a Separate Label's Page
Now blog labels are very useful to find topics about which we might be interested or to track down our own posts withou...

Mama - More Than Just a Bump in the Night - #MonsterMondays 27

Good day and welcome to my blog on the Wintery Monday. Today I have chosen a ghostly monster to tingle all our spines. I hope you enjoy Monster Monday 27.

Mama - More Than Just a Bump in the Night
So Mama is the kind of horror film I love. It doesn't just come out and show us the monster. Taking a leaf out of Asian horror films this is all glimpses and moments that make us jump for a good percentage of the film rather than complete in our faces monsterness. This I think makes the perfect monste...

I did it - woohoo! 50K FTW

Sorry, no Fan Friday today because I'm too busy crowing :) I finished NaNoWriMo today after I hit 50K on my Harry Potter fanfic, Defence, Pretence, Offence.

Well, technically I hit 100K because I had 50K before I started, and I still have more to write, in fact a lot more, but I still won NaNoWriMo :).

I honestly have no idea how long it's going to be in the end. I have 46 chapters at the moment, but I'm not sure if it will grow any more of if some will be combined. Only five of those chapters...

Looking For Book People to Host - #WriterlyWednesdays

I am out of lovely people to host for Writerly Wednesdays and would absolutely love some more. Anything writerly fits the bill. If you have a post within you that is anything to do with writing in any shape or form, I am looking for you.
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If you post about anything to do with writing/books/authors, I would love to host a guest post, or an interview, or anything else writerly you can think of.Authors
Have a book to share? Bursting to write a post ab...

2 Sure-Fire Methods for Finding Errors in Your Work - #TipsTuesdays 14

Now we all know that authors need help editing and we should always get someone else to look over our work before it is published, however, it's always good to get rid of as many errors as we can ourselves first, and of course blog posts are often a solitary effort. Today I want to pass on two methods I use all the time to help me find errors in my writing. I hope they are as useful to you are they are to me. Tips Tuesdays 14

2 Sure-Fire Methods for Finding Errors in Your Work
I'm sure most of...