8am. It is Soph’s birthday today. Thirty-one. 31. We’re sitting on the couch, Soph’s opening her cards and presents and I’m enjoying watching her facial
Month: June 2010
Stream of unconsciousness…
This is a test piece of writing… It’s been said many times before, that the most intimidating thing, for a writer, is a blank page.
A Super-hero meets a fan
(a storyboard by Vin…)
People Problems
I have a friend, let’s call her Amanda Nicol, who, in 2003, wrote a highly insightful and devastatingly emotional novel about a young guy and
Apple; treating users like they just don’t matter
Full title: How Apple could take a leaf out of Microsoft’s book and enhance the user experience… My laptop is downloading the latest iTunes update
Horses, illnesses, bikes, writing, music
… and the bitter taste of something… bitter-tasting… Horses: So, that scoundrel Tom. Tsk. Tom is nothing but a worry to his ‘dad’. He spends
Big Brother, season 11
Updated 16th July 2010, edit identified below The (allegedly) final series of Big Brother is upon us and do you know what? It’s nowhere near
Whistling like a boiling kettle
I am not well. No! Please, you have to at least try to keep that massive outpouring of grief and sympathy in check. It’s just
The birds and the bees. And the cats
Since we moved in to this house, almost two years ago, we have had a running battle with every cat in the parish. The house,
Saturday’s One Day Event
By the time Tom and I got to do our stuff the photographer had all but given up and gone home. Well, we were the
Fuel for Thought
I am in pain. Not the deep, dark, tortured pain that we all literary geniuses suffer. This is a more intense, physical kind of pain.
Leading from the rear
We were working in for the dressage phase of the Ascott-under-Wychwood Horse Trials when I heard Tom’s near-hind shoe flapping. Fortunately the farrier on call
Testing times
Tom’s times for the Ascott-under-Wychwood British Eventing Horse Trials are: 15.16: Dressage 17.43: Show-jumping 18.31: Cross-country If he Show-jumps like he did on Sunday, we’ll
A hot, horse-centred weekend
The Brize Norton/Witney forecast for this weekend is 23c and sunny on Saturday and 20c and sunny on Sunday, which is good and not good.
Cat got your tongue?
I went to the stables at the livery yard to get my pony in for the night. When I walked out to the field I
Some more bad writing
Lest anyone thinks bad writing is solely the domain of foreigners… The BBC News website (http://news.bbc.co.uk) is home to writing crimes too. Some. What does