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Squid boat. These go out at night with banks of powerful lights that attract the squid…and it was squid season on the island. We sat on chairs on the beach here and read. Every now and then I would look … Continue reading
Glenda Larke
Every now and then some idiot makes a scene about a bad review of their book. It doesn’t happen very often, but someone last week took it to a new high by voicing her complaint via some not very nice … Continue reading
I was in the flower market in Amsterdam once, with my sister. As we were admiring the bunches of picked flowers in buckets, one of us exclaimed, Look! Morrison!’We turned to say to the flowerseller, “This is a flower native … Continue reading
Yesterday I telephoned to get results of pap smear and mammogram. Latter fine, pap smear not. Yuk. This is a first time for me, and means a colposcopy is scheduled for treatment and biopsy. Nothing urgent and I am doing … Continue reading
Yesterday was the 1st of July.And I said I was going to start writing book 3 on July 1st, 1,500 words at least every day.But – that’s me on the left, the squashed rabbit with a load of work on … Continue reading
Jo asked yesterday what I think of fanfic, or people who write stories set in another writer’s world usually without permission. It’s actually a complex question when you get into it. My knee jerk reaction to such people is: Don’t … Continue reading
Well, it started maybe not so well – with a traffic jam followed by a long overdue mammogram (squash) and ultrasound (squish). Perked up a lot at lunch with several friends who work for the Malaysian Nature Society, then was … Continue reading
Yeah, I might be dreaming of Tioman, but I am working. On a Sunday. Reading. Can reading a novel be work? Yep, when you’ve already read it umpteen times over the past few months. Hell, when you wrote the danged … Continue reading
Lunch by the sea Transport on the “road” past our door… Arriving by plane for the rich (we went by ferry) And just…life Really tough for the tourists, no? … Continue reading