Archive | July, 2008

This Emerald Isle

28 July 2008

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As we’re now coming towards the end of our second full day in Ireland, I thought I’d do a quick blog update, for the handful of you who may be even remotely interested. We arrived on Saturday evening after a mammoth two-day journey in a jam-packed Renault Laguna Estate. The back suspension was creaking under [...]

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A Collective Noun of Spiders

18 July 2008

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Two words into the title of this post and I hit a stumbling block. I don’t know what the correct term for a group of spiders is. I received my ten author’s copies of Spider Swat today and so was cleverly going to call this post A __________ of Spiders, with the __________ being replaced [...]

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More Gorgeous Gangrene

10 July 2008

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Here’s another pic of Dan Green, the lead character in GANGRENE, the comic I’m working on with top artist fella Neil Chenier.  Click here to see some more of his work, and revel in its brilliance.  

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Gorgeous Gangrene

9 July 2008

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Neil Chenier, the penciller working on my comic script, has sent over a bundle of sketches he’s done of various characters in the series.  I don’t have time to show them all at the moment, but here’s one of my favourites to whet your appetite … Isn’t he lovely?  I’ll post some more later, along [...]

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Saturday’s Doctor Who

8 July 2008

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I was busy on Saturday night, so recorded the last in the series of Doctor Who and watched it on Sunday, as I couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen after the series of cliffhanger endings the previous week left us dangling over. Absolute rubbish, that’s what happened next. The Doctor’s regeneration didn’t [...]

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17 Days

8 July 2008

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17 days. That’s how long’s left until we leave these fair shores and relocate to County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. We’ve found a house, so now only have about 499 other things to do before we go. The main one being finding a way to transport all our stuff several hundres miles into [...]

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An all round SMASHING day

2 July 2008

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Yesterday, my proper job called for me to go to Inverness – a 140 mile round trip along some of the most rubbish roads in the UK. While there I found myself with some time to kill, and so headed out to the multiplex on the outskirts of the city, where I watched The Incredible [...]

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