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Monthly Archives: June 2018
June wrap-up
Reading: I read Ender’s Game in May and forgot to mention it then, but a friend from church has since lent us all four books. I finished the series, my dad’s still working on it. The first book was a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Of the North, Ordinary life, Reading, work in progress, Writing
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Snippets — Of the North, mostly
asdfghjk asdfghjk cut asdfghjkl ;;’snip snur’ trim trim * * * * * This is what happens when your sister comes home from work and you’ve left your computer unsupervised while you’re making lunch. (She said, “But those are snippets!”) … Continue reading
Posted in Of the North, Revision, snippet, work in progress, Writing
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“Qua!” said Peter Aurelius.
In the category of random Anglo-Saxon-era tidbits, there was in the seventh century a woman named AEthelthryth, who did all kinds of things which may be marshalled as evidence against the myth that the Church or the Middle Ages oppressed … Continue reading
You might call it lawful necromancy
People have been asking me things like what my favourite historical novel is (I never can remember at the time) or how much I own (can’t remember that either), so a few weeks ago I pulled all the ones in … Continue reading
“You can’t talk, and you can’t tell the truth,” Eileen said. “What can you do?”
“You said hello to me in the hallway today,” I told David, “and that’s the first time in my year of working here that you’ve greeted me of your own volition.” “You never say hi to me,” David said. “I’d … Continue reading
“Bobbie had to try laughing out the other side of his mouth then, and had to be sat on before he would stop playing the clown.”
With lots of help from a friend, I’ve finally figured out the problem staring me in the face with Of the North. In scientific terms it’s “lack of the human element” which meant the story was more about the accidents … Continue reading
Tradesmen’s entrance is round the back.
We’re four days into our new jobs. Olivia had Wednesday off and complained about missing work — she gets to make some of the stuff in the morning, and gets off at about two, with a short lunch break somewhere … Continue reading
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A bit of late Spring-cleaning
Olivia started work this morning, and I start this afternoon, and yesterday by the garage door we saw a jumpy spider who’d caught a tent caterpillar a couple of times longer than himself and was pleased as punch about it. … Continue reading
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May wrap-up
Reading: Wingfeather Tales: a collection of short stories by several authours, set in the world of the Wingfeather Saga. The novella at the end would have been really good if it weren’t for 95% of the sentences being so easily … Continue reading
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