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Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)
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Dec 27, 2015 06:25AM
Oh Jim what a worry. And all that travelling in that foul weather too. Hope everything is on the right track now x
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Yes, convincing her to take it easy is the trick. But the fact that she felt worse than after the accident has probably convinced her to take case.The chap at the hospital explained it very well
Claire and the other professionals know the proper way to put it, but he described it to us collected numpties as you have a pool of coherent thought. With concussion you stop producing more and every time you think, read, watch tv, use a phone or Ipad, you drain that pool a bit, and she'd finally emptied hers.
You need five days or so of doing nothing so that you get to the stage where you start producing more again.
Obviously technically untrue but a brilliant way of explaining it
Rosemary (aiming to misbehave) wrote: "Oh Jim what a worry. And all that travelling in that foul weather too. Hope everything is on the right track now x"so do I
Technically youngest has to go back to Leeds soon!
I once had a kid who's mother sent him to school with concussion.Anywhere else in the world, I'd have called family services.
A lot of people who've never had it, don't actually realise what it is or does
How's this for a coincidence?I just had a message from one of my cousins. My uncle had a slip and fall yesterday and has a level three concussion.
He's in his late 70s, so a lengthy recovery, I expect. :(
Yes, make sure they know to keep him absolutely quiet for at least five days.
Jim mate, sorry to hear that. If it helps, you're not the only one who has had a complicated Christmas, although the complications were McOther's side of the house and we were at my folks.Cheers
MTM
a man with three daughters will never want for complication :-)
Jim wrote: "a man with three daughters will never want for complication :-)"Mwah hahaahargh! Now that I can believe. ;-) I hope she is soon feeling OK.
Jim wrote: "a man with three daughters will never want for complication :-)"You didn't plan that very well...
I find two daughters quite complicated. My sympathies
My grandmother had eleven daughters.
Two daughters were plenty enough of a complication for me, too. Eleven sounds very tiring.
My great granny had 13 daughters. So did her mother. I have been positively restrained.
Well my father had four sisters and my mother had four sisters :-)
I won't mention it to oldest daughter just yet.At the very least she's not supposed to be watching telly
But on a related issue I do wonder about some of the previous generation of footballers who used to head the old leather footballs
And rugby players, eh?Heads full of soup, some of them.
I got into trouble at school, nobody could understand why, as I was tall, I wouldn't ever head the ball.It just struck me as a remarkably silly thing to do
Sorry to hear about your daughter Jim, glad it seems to be improving.I had concussion once - hit on the head by a low-flying brick - not pleasant at all.
Quite chuffed, but it on ABC tales and it's got a cherry awardhttp://www.abctales.com/story/jim-web...
So far Tallis has five pieces on ABC tales and four of them have cherry awards
The only one that hasn't is a piece of his poetry which might be a hint
My GR feed keeps stopping, so I've only just got onto this: hope she's getting better Jim.
Yes, we had Lady wife and younger daughter staying over with her so she wasn't on her own, but by Wednesday she was feeling much improved and was eating pretty well.By Wednesday evening she was well enough to worry where on earth she'd left her toothbrush.
By this morning she was well enough to find it :-)
Update from my cousin. My uncle is better but still not himself. They're the ones who always host the huge family Christmas. It's rather delayed this year.
It can take weeks and it isn't something you hurry
Jim wrote: "Quite chuffed, but it on ABC tales and it's got a cherry awardhttp://www.abctales.com/story/jim-web...
So far Tallis has five pieces on ABC tales and four of them have cherry awards
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Congratulations. They deserve the cherries - they are all great reads.
Well done. I enjoy a bit of Tallis, I like that you have him so well in character, it really is like listening to someone talk.Cheers
MTM
What!!? Are you saying he's not real?
Oh Tallis is real enough, it's just people tend to have doubts about me
Jim, could you do me a favour, please?Could you please list all your books in suggested reading order? I wanna check and make sure I've got everything.
I did that because the covers are so pretty, the Fantasy as a listThe first two should really be read in this order
Swords for a Dead Lady
Dead man riding East
The next two are stand alone and can be read in any order
The Flames of the City
Learning a Hard Trade
Then we've got what I might call 'Early Benor' which are probably best read in this order
The Cartographer's Apprentice: Leave Them Wanting More
Flotsam or Jetsam
A Much Arranged Marriage
and the finally
Lambent Dreams
Which I put last because the more of the other stuff you read, the better your chance of understanding it :-)
Yes, those covers really are something special.
Readit, readit, readit, readit, readit... etc.And I still keep coming back for more!
Kath wrote: "Readit, readit, readit, readit, readit... etc.And I still keep coming back for more!"
she's a beggar for it :-)
'Tallis Steelyard, shower me with gold, and other stories' is with the editor
About 33,K words, all blog entry length but a decent chunk never actually blogged. And given how few people read Tallis's blog, even the blogged stuff will be new to most people ;-)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yes, those covers really are something special."They are, AUK have done me proud for covers
I just discovered something.I'm working on a Tallis story, at some point it could be a long blog post, and I wanted the name of a particular Temple Dancer.
Now I knew I'd mentioned a temple dancer, Benor had met her. So I went to find the story she was in.
And I couldn't, yet I knew I'd written it. I went through all the ones edited and ready to be released in the Port Naain Intelligencer and it just wasn't there. No Temple Dancers.
I've just found a 10,000 word Benor short that I'd totally forgotten about which has the Temple Dancer in :-)
And when are we going to see that one?
Not sure, the Benor stories about about 20k words. This one is a natural 10k and I've another which was done as a freebie that was 7k. Whether I bundle them both together, or do them as two freebies, not sure.
As you say, good news. I've something ready if I need it.In the back of my mind I have a feeling that there was an anthology planned, but obviously it's not happened
Maybe a micro-anthology.
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Maybe a micro-anthology."sort of an 'ant'
Well I've got it, now pondering best use there off :-)
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