JOTD: What welshmen do when they’re bored

15 January 2012 Miscellania

I didn’t make up the title – it’s there on the video…. laughed till I cried… but it may be just the kind of day/week/month/year it’s been so far. At any rate – Sunday antidote to the god-bothering – we offer…. sheep-bothering. In the nicest sense.

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Winter solstice 2011 – Exactly one year until 13 Baktun

21 December 2011 Climate Change

So….twelve months from now, to the day, we’ll hit the date the Maya named 13 Baktun, 4 Ahau, 3 Kankin – the date on which their calendar heralds the end of a ‘World Age’ and the beginning of the next. The last world age turned over in August 3114 BC and nobody, not even the [...]

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Heartwarm of the day: Gender teaching in primary school

21 December 2011 feminism

This is just gorgeous.  Click link for full thing, after you’ve read the excerpt below: Gender is not a subject that I would have broached in primary grades a few years ago. In fact, I remember scoffing with colleagues when we heard about a young kindergarten teacher who taught gender-related curriculum. We thought her lessons [...]

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Waterstone’s: New Business Model: Let’s Not Stock Books…

19 December 2011 publishing

So – the ’2012: Apocalypse’ Stocking-filler book  is selling well. It’s sold out on Amazon, and when my Secret Shopper (aka my beloved) went into the local branch of Waterstone’s, it turns out they’d sold out too.  Perhaps not surprisingly, she wanted to buy a couple of copies for friends for the passing spasm of [...]

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Heartwarm of the Day (3) – I think

15 December 2011 writing

I have to say I have never yet read a novel in which there was any kind of suggestion by the primary character of, ‘I’m beating you because I love you.’  This may be (almost certainly is) because I don’t read ‘romantic’ fiction.  It comes as rather a surprise that this exists. But given that [...]

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Heartwarm of the Day (2) –

15 December 2011 LGBT

Following on from yesterday’s gorgeous piece, comes this, in a similar vein (with thanks to Ali Smith for posting it) – the most heartbreakingly wonderful bit is that the father – a former Republican – is so utterly cool with his daughter.  Pity he had to renounce Republicanism to do it, but the two are [...]

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HeartWarm of the Day: Read it and weep

14 December 2011 LGBT

This needs no extras, just read the excerpt and then read the whole thing: When I was a kid I had a series of dreams that involved Immature. You know, that baby boy band starring Roger from “Sister, Sister”? Anyway, my dreams usually involved group member LDB (Little Drummer Boy) singing “Never Lie” to me [...]

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Books for Heroes

13 December 2011 Miscellania

This is a copy of a press release that has just gone out – please forward if you know of anyone who might be interested. Books for Heroes Britain’s bestselling historical novelists show their support at Christmas for our frontline troops in Afghanistan A group of writers from the British Isles, all of whom are [...]

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It’s publication day!

8 December 2011 publishing

This from my ever-kindly publishers: Happy Publication Day to Manda Scott. 2012: Everything you need to know about the Apocalypse is published today.

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Should publishers charge for short stories? The conversation continues.

8 December 2011 writing

Following my response to his article, ‘Book Selector’ responded in the comments section of the blog – it’s already dropped off the front page, so I reproduce the conversation here, for your interest: BookSelector: Hi, First up I would like to say my name is Matthew Crockatt not Matthew Crock. Second I would like to [...]

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