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[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I'm in the same camp MT, I've never read one of your books, but I follow your blog because I enjoy your posts on here. I think publishing some blogs could be a good idea"

the reason I share you blogs is that they're worth reading :-)

[M.T.]

There's a thought then. I could do the eyebombing book this year abd a fantasy story which will probably have to be the story about how The Pan of Hamgee tried to kill himself by jumping into a river after he was blacklisted and then ... Didn't. Next year I can do the blog posts and hopefully I will have finished the long short by then so I can release that with it.

I had a lovely email this morning which really cheered me up from a reader in Australia. She likes the books but they're always a bigger ask for Australasians because of the exchange rate and she basically told me she thinks my emails are funny and really enjoys being on the list. So there are some votes for funniness coming in, there's clearly some merit in the idea that join to buying times will be years rather than months, too. So I feel a bit more reassured but I do still need to discover a way to monitise all this a bit!

[David]

Two words: Brooke Magnanti!

[Jim]

David wrote: "Two words: Brooke Magnanti!"

Isn't M.T. leaving a change of career a little late?












I'm not sure she's cut out to be a biostatistician

[M.T.]

I had to google Brook thingummy. I'm not sure I'd make a very good call girl, too much wobbly stuff and knees that preclude me from any interesting acrobatics.

[M.T.]

Oh and this week, I am ranting about pretty much everything:

http://mtmcguire.co.uk/2017/05/13/meh/

[Alicia]

It's a good rant.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Ditto it being a good rant, your parents sound amazing though. I really don't know how you cope

[M.T.]

Bless you, thanks peps, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I try to make these things funny. I have three cracking stories about my parents which I will probably write up over the next few posts, just to get a laugh. Along with the eyebombing stuff.

[M.T.]

Another exciting week. A gripping read for all, I'm sure.

http://wp.me/pJIxY-IO

The next blog post will be a lot more interesting, I promise.

Cheers

MTM

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Gripping or griping?

A lot of bodily fluids involved, anyway.

[M.T.]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Gripping or griping?

A lot of bodily fluids involved, anyway."

Gripping griping about throwing up basically...

[Jim]

loved it

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I loved it MT!

[M.T.]

Glad you all liked. I suspect the next one will be about my turn.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm really pleased you seem to be on the mend.

Any idea where it was picked up from?

[M.T.]

Nope. None of McMinis friends seem to have had it but one of the other Mums at school did. No other cases locally that I know about.

Cheers

MTM

[Patti (baconater)]

You're just lucky, I suppose.

[M.T.]

Mwahahaaaargh! That's right! Lucky, lucky, lucky me!

[M.T.]

No ranting from me this week. I got Tallis Steelyard to do it! ;-)

Enjoy. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2017/05/27/ta...

[Jim]

obliging chap is our Tallis

[M.T.]

That he is. Got me out of a spot. ;-)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Rather enjoyable

[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Rather enjoyable"

I've found Tallis to be an enthusiastic observer of human nature. ;-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

As well as being an enthusiastic consumer of wine.

[M.T.]

Well, I'm an enthusiastic consumer of wine too so yet another reason why he was the perfect choice for my blog.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

has he left you with any?

[M.T.]

A drop. I hid some.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

M.T. wrote: "A drop. I hid some."

Aha - you were fore-warned :)

[M.T.]

Indeed!

[Jim]

wine should be poured with a generous hand, after all one has to make way for the new vintage. You don't want a lot of old stuff cluttering up the cellar

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Reminds me of a certain episode of Black Books.

[Jay-me (Janet)]

Going back a few posts to the one about your emails

Being without wifi over the weekend I was late reading your latest email (by the way I get two - the second one arriving a few hours later 🤔🤔)
I was amazed that you seem to have discovered time travel as the giveaway runs from June 29th to June 4th.

[M.T.]

Jay-me (Janet) wrote: "Going back a few posts to the one about your emails

Being without wifi over the weekend I was late reading your latest email (by the way I get two - the second one arriving a few hours later 🤔🤔)
I..."

That's what happens when you try to write a mailing with gastric flu!

Re the second mailing. It means you've got onto two separate lists. Just unsubscribe from one of them and you should find it reverts to sending you one. If one has a ritzy orange or green header at the top unsubscribe from the other. If you've no heading on either just unsubscribe from one at random!

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Reminds me of a certain episode of Black Books."

Black Books?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Reminds me of a certain episode of Black Books."

Black Books?"

A comedy with Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey. Dylan plays the owner of a bookshop and Bill his assistant. Its one of the best comedies I have seen.

This gives a pretty good description of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_B...

[Jim]

I confess that I needed a wiki to discover who Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey were :-(

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jim wrote: "I confess that I needed a wiki to discover who Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey were :-("

I'm lost for words. Although I suppose you have livestock for your comedy needs...

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Jim wrote: "I confess that I needed a wiki to discover who Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey were :-("

I'm lost for words. Although I suppose you have livestock for your comedy needs..."

I'm almost detached enough from popular culture to get a job as a high court judge :-)

I'm not sure I'd heard of the lass singing at the Manchester bomb until it happened, I might of but her name hadn't stuck :-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Do you know who The Beatles are? Or were.

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Do you know who The Beatles are? Or were."

yes, I even remember a world before them :-)

[David]

Jim wrote: "I'm almost detached enough from popular culture to get a job as a high court judge :-)"

I dunno. After my experience over the last few weeks, I think it may be time to come up with a new embodiment of outoftouchness.

[Jim]

David wrote: "I dunno. After my experience over the last few weeks, I think it may be time to come up with a new embodiment of outoftouchness. ..."

oh well, I may become the canon :-)

[David]

Jim wrote: "David wrote: "I dunno. After my experience over the last few weeks, I think it may be time to come up with a new embodiment of outoftouchness. ..."

oh well, I may become the canon :-)"

It is a worthy aspiration.

Although, on second thoughts, considering how much of popular culture passes me by without me noticing any of it, maybe I am not the best to determine how with it a judge is.

[Jim]

we are the standard bearers of the new age :-)

[David]

Jim wrote: "we are the standard bearers of the new age :-)"

Indeed.

Although, I may be letting the side down as I've recently discovered that Ed Sheeran is not - as I had presumed - either an actor in Coronation Street or a county cricketer.

[Jay-me (Janet)]

David wrote: "Jim wrote: "we are the standard bearers of the new age :-)"

Indeed.

Although, I may be letting the side down as I've recently discovered that Ed Sheeran is not - as I had presumed - either an act..."

Now I did know who Ed Sheeran was. Mostly because the radio station I listen to on my way to work seems to play a lot of his songs. But also because a co-worker was playing all her new ringtones that she has downloaded for her new phone and the majority were Ed Sheeran.

(Having said that I knew who he was - I doubt that I would be able to pick him out if you showed me a bunch of photos - match the photo to the name of the famous person)

I don't watch a lot of TV so actors in films and series pass me by.

[David]

I think I know what Ed Sheeran looks like - more or less - because a couple of weeks back I met someone who said he had been mistaken for Sheeran by some people.

I heard about 30 seconds of one of his songs too. I'm not sure if I'd remember it was his if I heard it again though.

I do watch TV though, but they seem to mainly employ actors who were in that thing with whastshername.

There seem to be a lot of celebrities/famous people called Kate (or variations thereof) at the moment, or perhaps there is just one who gets around a lot.

[M.T.]

I know very little about popular mush pic but Ed Sheeran is one of the few people I've actually heard of. I am useless at actors and actresses though especially the ones in soaps, I'm not really a soap watcher..

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Another good blog post MT, which I have shared. Can't really think of the words, unfortunately, but it needs sharing on here