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Sunday 2nd October, 2011

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Well, welcome to the new site design. You may notice it’s a WordPress [External Link] site using the Graphene [External Link], with a small amount of tweaking to get things displayed how I want, where I want. More information and the usual rough guide to how the site works on The Site page.

Because of the WordPress “preferred” structure – it’s designed for dynamic content, or blogging to thee and me – I’m more likely to be blogging myself intermittently. Except I’ll try not to. As you know, I’m not a big fan of expressing my opinions that much, I just think it should be taken as read that I’m liberal. What I will end up putting on here is more of the world-building and background ideas for existing worlds and ideas I’m working on. I have a couple of things to write up about on the Alex Jones’ world that would have made it onto the page as used in the older site, if I hadn’t changed, and these might make it up on the new version some time this week.

Whether or not the Site Diary type entires will continue… Well, I hope so. I like having a round-up of changes, even if some of them are very small. It’s been quite interesting reading back through the old entries – I’ve even rescued the stuff from the 2007-2009 Yahoo! Geocities design – as I’ve been putting them on to this incarnation. In fact, I learnt five things:

  1. It’s been a while since a short story acceptance – must try harder!
  2. It’s been a while since I put up a new story on site – I have a couple of ideas so that might change in the next few months.
  3. The Boy and His Dog makes me cry – I remember having a few difficulties writing it in the first place because the dog is actually, specifically, the pup I had before Finn. Unfortunately, Sid couldn’t be reconstructed following his own traffic accident. Reading the story through now, well, what can I say? I’m a cry-baby.
  4. Reading my posts from Wales’ 2008 Triple Crown and Grand Slam (Six Nations) wins makes me smile – even though I didn’t post much about the actual rugby, it made me smile remembering what was going on off-computer-screen. Almost as much as today’s victory (BBC News, Rugby World Cup 2011: Fiji 0-66 Wales [External Link]. Yes, it was well worth getting up for!
  5. I owe you some photos of my Armour Class [External Link] Pappenheimer – and a few other bits and pieces in my weapons bag. I’ve reinstated more of the swords section and I hope to add some more photos / sword data. I’m also thinking of doing a post on basic kit and then additional kit as and when I buy it – if only because it gives you an idea of what SSSSheffield [External Link] uses.

Sunday 20th March, 2011

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Not much to say, this week.

The writing work is only tinkering, really, with nothing major going on. Although I’ve made a bit of progress with The Three Guineveres, I haven’t picked it up again properly. I’ll keep working on it until another idea comes along or I can no longer find the will to continue. If I ever get it finished, it’s going to be a very wordy beast.

For those who care: Super Saturday (the last day of the Six Nations) was… bum numbing. It started with two hours of watching Scotland prove a point to Italy, a half hour break and then Ireland made the same point a little more emphatically to England, then a bit longer break and Wales failed to make any point at all to France. So England won the competition but have not won the Grand Slam (a clean sweep) or the Triple Crown (beaten all the other Home Nations), Wales, who were almost in a position to win after Ireland thumbed their noses at England, came fourth on the table. It’s like that when there are only six teams involved.

It’s the birthday weekend, next week, so I may or may not post on time. Don’t bother with search parties if I don’t surface for another fortnight!

Sunday 21st March, 2010

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An update in the In Memoriam subsection of my writing pages. Mum’s France trip has now been transcribed.

Yeah, that was pretty much it. Unless you want to share my joy over the Wales rugby team beating Italy (thank God(s)) and France winning the Grand Slam. Oh, also impressed with Scotland beating Ireland – they were better than expected!

Sunday 16th March, 2008

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PLUG/REMINDER: The Ally-Ally-Oh is in Issue 4 of NeonBeam [External Link], published yesterday.

Yay! Wales won the Grand Slam! And beat France (which wasn’t strictly necessary to win the competition)

Our flag-ship One-Name Directory has now been launched. So far, we only have four researchers listed (including me!) for the CHARLESWORTH name, but it’s a start. If you know anyone who might be interested, please pass the site address on. Similarly, if you know anyone interested in TABERNERs and GUMSLEYs – I would love to hear from them. Or yourself!

My own CHARLESWORTH families updates are on hold. I’m just doing some more checks to make sure that I can’t attach them to already mentioned lines. I’ve also met another possible cousin / relative (Colin WHITE) who shares CHARLESWORTH interests and the waters are being muddied slightly as we fit the peices together. More changes to come over the next few weeks, no doubt.

Redrafting The Longest Night is more-or-less on hold. I’m having difficulty with some of the snippages. I

want to keep the general story arc, but remove unrealistic bits. Now that I work full time, I also have problems a) finding time and b) concentrating. I’ll get there eventually.

The first draft of Charity also progresses slowly, at the rate of a chapter a week. I find it a little easier to concentrate on, but time is still an issue. Particularly when I get other ideas or take up challenges!

In answer to Jetse DE VRIES’s quest for a positive future [External Link], I’ve started working on a story provisionally titled Spindrift, which has been added to my projects page. The only problem I currently have with it is time, as ever – it’s going to be a struggle to get
it all together to send to Jetse for the Interzone [External Link] e-mailing submission period in May.