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The page has landed

This writing business continues to surprise me. Just when I think I have seen and heard it all, along comes a phrase or a concept that I have never heard of. It harks back to one of my childhood phobias – that everyone else was in on a joke but they hadn’t told me. I…

A writing update

My head is spinning. The original idea seemed so simple. Write a best-seller, the world says “wow”, earn lots of money. repeat. Buy an apartment in New York, a villa in the Med and a mansion in London. Look forward to the moment when an up and coming writer is described as “the new Will…

Love, Death and Wyrds

  Nobody tells you what it’s like to press that little green button marked “go”. Publish that book I’ve been working on forever. That’s when all the doubts creep in. Will they like it? Is the writing good enough? Have I winnowed out all the spelling mistakes? If it makes me a gazillion, what colour…

I’ve got the fence-post blues

I think I’ve worked out what the internet is. It has taken me several years, at least two keyboards and countless thousands of words. But I think I’ve found the secret. Or at least one of them. Of course, I haven’t figured out all of the internet. There are huge bits I haven’t yet experienced,…

With further ado

Some words and phrases bother me. I know they shouldn’t. I know I should let them slide by graciously. But sometimes I can’t help myself. I have developed a bit of a thing. Take “without further ado”. People generally say this when they have waffled on for too long by way of an introduction and…

A writing update

It is that time again. I have a new book about to come out. Love, Death and Wyrds is the sequel to Love, Death and Tea. It’s the same post apocalyptic world, this time told from the perspective of Libby. We get some of the same scenes told from a different perspective and then a…

The mythical manual

I’ll admit it. When I started to learn photography, I was intimidated by the dreaded manual modes. The internet, where everyone is an expert, told me that real men shoot in manual only, but it’s so difficult to learn that it would fry my little brain. Now I have been on a photography course, I…

Demystifying those buttons

I’ve had two comments already asking about all those darned buttons on the camera. So I’m bringing forward a piece I had intended to write later. This is all you need to know about those mysterious buttons … probably. The secret that nobody tells you is that the company which made your camera really doesn’t…

Focus

This is where it starts to get weird. I was at a photography class last week when we had a strange difference of opinion. The tutor showed us a picture like this one: The taxi is in focus (ish), the background is blurred. This gives us the impression of speed. The taxi is the thing…

Too many buttons!

This is what puts many people off photography. What do all those symbols mean? There are little pictures and mysterious acronyms. It’s like the ancient hieroglyphics painted on the walls of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The rest of the camera isn’t any better. Even on my modest camera, I have around 18 different buttons and dials,…