This 'n' That
Today is a post of oddments …
… The Tuesday Poem Blog's first birthday poem (on a theme, directly and/or indirectly, of Tuesday) is growing—and will continue to do so throughout this week. You can check on progress here
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… Gillian Polack, whom I was on a panel with (can I say "panelled with"?) at Worldcon way back in September '10, has been nominated for a Ditmar Award for the short story anthology Baggage. Way to go, Gillian, I'm cheering from your corner. 
(Another friend, Mary Victoria, talks more about Baggage (& publisher Eneit Press) here.)
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… I read Neil Gaiman's personal/blog tribute for Diana Wynne Jones and I cried, because although (obviously) not for Diana, I've been there all the same for other people:
"She was on morphine, breathing heavy and hard, as if she was fighting for every breath … there was a sense that felt like a certainty that she wasn't going to open her eyes and talk again. This sleep was final, and soon the breathing would stop … But there was only one Diana Wynne Jones, and the world was a finer one for having her in it.
" — N Gaiman
And of course Neil Gaiman knew DWJ in person, whereas I could only do my small tribute as a reader—but maybe when you're a writer it's good to have both …
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I wanted to write another Earthquake Report for today and found I couldn't … Because sometimes the 'quaky aftermath just gets to you and it's all too real and present and altogether "just too much" so that you don't want to talk about it at all … so no piccies of my chimney and what's replaced it (the 'weathertight-for-winter' interim solution which of course is fine, but …) just yet. 
But on a slightly more upbeat note, here's the clip "A Fraction Liquefaction" (an adaptation of the Split Enz hit "There's a Fraction Too Much Friction" ) which is a relatively light-hearted look at the whole February 22nd liquefaction experience and its consequences. So here it is:
