by Neil | Aug 18, 2008 | Life, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Thoughts, Writing
I haven’t been around much at all because I basically hit the wall last week. No I haven’t gone back to cycling and hit anything, I’m just exhausted. Consequently it was about all I could muster to get up, go to work and get home again. I slept for...by Neil | Aug 11, 2008 | Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Random, Thoughts
Not much from me over the weekend other than tweets. The reason of course was I went and did actual sociable things, for this weekend saw the launch of fellow F3er Gareth L Powell’s short story collection: The Last Reef and other stories. In addition to...by Neil | Aug 5, 2008 | Comedy, humor, Humour, Life, London, Personal, Random
This is proving to be a strange week. I think I may have slipped a universe again. So I’m walking to the station having put in some unpaid overtime because I have MUG etched on my forehead and really quite tired. However, I am damn sure – from the other...by Neil | Aug 4, 2008 | House, Life, Personal, Random, Seemed like a good idea at the time, Why you shouldn't give me power tools
For all my moaning I do rather like my house. It has history (it’s a 104 years old) and we have bags of room allowing me a decent space to write in. However, I’ve realised my house does not like me. From busted drains to leaky showers and collapsing...by Neil | Aug 2, 2008 | Life, Murky Depths, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Random, Reading, Thoughts, Why you shouldn't give me power tools, Writing
A property developer I am not. Today we’ve been working on the back bedroom – G wallpapering, me clearing and doing the heavy lifting. Frankly amazed at the job G is doing, decidedly underwhelmed by my own. So it goes. I’m hoping we’ll have...by Neil | Jul 29, 2008 | Friday Flash Fiction, Personal, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Thoughts, work, Writing
In yesterday’s post we left our intrepid blogger me pondering what to write and then read out on Friday. As I clawed through my brain and indeed made several aborted attempts to start the short story I had planned on writing, I learned an important lesson:...