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Monday 27th February, 2012

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With a little help from Cheryl Morgan [External Link], I put together a post on Women’s Role Models: Ringers, which I posted last week. This is a continuation of the Women’s Role posts started with Women’s Roles in Fantasy Fiction and continued in Women’s Role Models: An Introduction. A post on “Soldiers” follows some time this week – probably Wednesday, when tradition suggests I should actually be out proposing to random men. Feedback on all of these posts would be appreciated, as would suggestions for further examples.

The radiator drip was solved with a cork, thankfully, but I have been redecorating. I’ve managed up to the first coat of paint. This did not distract from Saturday’s rugby – France beat Ireland, Wales beat England (woot! Triple Crown!) – or the disappearance of Sunday in an all day trip to SWASH 2012. Next year, I think they’re moving the dates to slightly later in the year, so I won’t have to chose between men rolling in the mud and people waving swords again. Hopefully, decorating won’t enter into the equation.

Redrafting on 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf continues, with more writing on hold for a while. I just don’t have the time with redecorating and such.

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 1st March, 2009

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Okay, so Wales lost to France. But we (sorry, they – I wasn’t part of the team) are still in with a chance for the Triple Crown.

And Foxie, being lazy, has requested that I put the site on RSS feed. Provided I’ve wrestled it into submission, a weekly feed of which pages have been updated will find their way to you. Please contact me if it does funny things so that I can correct it.

Sunday 9th March, 2008

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PLUG/REMINDER: The Ally-Ally-Oh is due out on Saturday (15/03/2008) in Issue 4 of NeonBeam [External Link]

Wales has won the Triple Crown! Yay! There was much cheering in the household yesterday – aside from Finn, who seems to cheer for England. I think it’s the white tops.

So, what else do I say?

Finn seems to have grown out of his chewing bad habits and has given up trying to eat things he shouldn’t. Although, he has had a brief foray into digging up potted plants, so all low level planting has now left the building (thank you very much).

You may notice the tidy I’ve had of the site. There are editing snips and slight changes all over the place, so I won’t point out any individual piece this week. Except for having replaced my email address with a form on the contact me page. It makes things easier for you and it might stop some of the spam I get. Oh, and watch out for the influx of CHARLESWORTH information. Some reshuffles have been bigger than others, and I’ve put up some of that
extra data I was talking about a week or two ago.