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April 24, 2015
So close to being proud of the ANZACs
Just watched the documentary about the Australia Light Horse, and the impossible feats of bravery they pulled off in the Middle East during the First World War. Horses and men with a bond closer than brothers. Horses like Bill the Bastard who carried five, FIVE aussie soldiers to safety because his rider asked him to. […]
April 23, 2015
Innerscape Part 1 on Wattpad
Some of you may remember a story I posted a couple of years back – hot off the Nanowrimo 2012 press – called Innerscape? -cough- Well, for the odd one out there who does remember, I’ve finally finished the whole damn thing. Some parts are still the same, which is a bit of a miracle, […]
April 16, 2015
LITTLE WORLD,GOODBYE
Originally posted on The English Professor at Large:
At this stage of my life, I know I know nothing……except that the world is drastically changing. The United States is changing into a country that is foreign to me. When I was a teenager, we were engaged in WW2, but the United States was united. People…
At this stage of my life, I know I know nothing……except that the world is drastically changing. The United States is changing into a country that is foreign to me. When I was a teenager, we were engaged in WW2, but the United States was united. People…
April 15, 2015
One internet identity to bind them all…
One of the things I dislike about using social media is the need to constantly login – to my email, my wordpress account, Twitter, Goodreads, Facebook [on the very rare occasions when I do] and the odd, ‘private’ blog or website. All of these logins require time and some effort on my part [what the […]
April 11, 2015
“..live my days instead of counting my years..”
Carpe diem by any other name smells as sweet*, and yet those lyrics from Dusty Springfield’s song ‘Going Back’ literally made me shiver. Of course we have to live in the now. The ‘now’ is all we truly have. Our talk of the past and the future is just the naked ape trying to make […]
April 9, 2015
For whom the guitar strings toll as I play
Originally posted on Colinology:
The common acoustic guitar is actually one of the oldest instruments we know of. There are stone carvings of long-necked instruments with wooden sound boxes which are thousands of years old. For instance, in Alaca Huyuk in Turkey there���s carving of a Hittite playing the instrument. The name of the instrument…
The common acoustic guitar is actually one of the oldest instruments we know of. There are stone carvings of long-necked instruments with wooden sound boxes which are thousands of years old. For instance, in Alaca Huyuk in Turkey there���s carving of a Hittite playing the instrument. The name of the instrument…
April 8, 2015
Amazon giveaway featuring Laurie Boris!
Okay, I admit it, I had no idea Amazon did giveaways so I’m rather excited, and you should be too you’ve heard me rave about Laurie Boris’ work before. Now’s your chance to win ‘The Joke’s on Me’, her first book. I pinched the following from Laurie as she’s better at describing things than me: […]
April 7, 2015
Phishing SCAM! – Apple iTunes
No, this is not a scam by Apple, it’s a scam pretending to be Apple. And, apart from a few small giveaways, it could almost be genuine : The email came to the correct email address, but as you can see, ‘they’ didn’t know my real name so the message is just addressed to ‘Dear […]
April 5, 2015
Happy Easter :)
I always feel a little odd wishing people a happy Easter – after all, I am an atheist. Nevertheless, I want to be a part of this celebration of good will. The world is so full of hate and violence, it desperately needs the balance of good will to keep us all sane. So…Happy Easter […]
April 3, 2015
Jurassic – [s]tale?
I will never forget the first time I watched Jurassic Park at the movies. Huge screen and sound so loud you could feel it in your bones. And then them… How on earth? Were those dinosaurs real somehow? But of course they couldn’t be real…only, they look real? That moment happened well over twenty years […]
