Archive | May, 2008

Further confusion

30 May 2008

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After finding a comment from children’s author Philip Ardagh on one of my earlier posts, I popped by his site to take a look.  Not literally, obviously.  I don’t live inside the internet, despite what my immediate family may suspect.  For those of you who don’t know, Philip is the author of – among others – [...]

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Confusion reigns and/or rains

30 May 2008

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Although I’m 100% sure I’ve mentioned the fact before, for the purposes of completeness let me mention again that I have a son who recently turned six.  He is in his first year of primary education, and has been doing fantastically well.  In particular, he is excelling at reading and writing, desipte the fact that [...]

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A Letter to Skeletor

27 May 2008

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Long, long ago I wrote the letter below for another website I ran.  The site was called RandomRant, and recently I was forced to take it down due to hacker/not having enough time issues. Anyway, I’ve saved all the content.  Much of it isn’t … erm … suitable to go on here.  Other stuff is.  [...]

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Indiana Jones and the spanking new glasses

26 May 2008

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I find myself sitting in the sunshine with half an hour to spare, and it feels like blog posting time. The last week has been filled with writing, parents evenings, cinema visits and the purchasing of spectacles. And more writing. Business first – I finished off the first draft of my top secret and unbelievably cool children’s [...]

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Just one last thing …

20 May 2008

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I feel like Columbo with that title up there.  But without the crumpled overcoat, obviously.  Or the skelly eyes. Anyway, the point of the post is that I got the proof through of my Wow! 366 story from Scholastic today.  Everything seemed okay, aside from a glaring error in the spelling of my name, which [...]

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Ch-ch-ch-changes

20 May 2008

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It’s been a couple of weeks since my last posting.  Sorry about that. While I haven’t been posting, I have been making a few changes to the site.  Not big changes, or that, but changes all the same.  Before the changes I had it plastered all over the pages that I was a children’s author.  [...]

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Evil marketing genius

2 May 2008

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Yesterday, while browsing the aisles of one of the many branches of Tesco supermarket in Inverness, I was handed this leaflet, promoting cut price cooked chickens: Which is fair enough if you’re into that sort of thing.  I’m not going to get into the whole free range vs intensively reared debate, or how anyone can [...]

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