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This entry is for Jo.The model is my younger daughter (of Bedtime for Toys band, as you can see from the T-shirt)The dish is fried Tempe, which is a kind of compressed fermented soya bean. You buy it in the … Continue reading
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…because I liked it. … Continue reading
See here. Or for “Christmas threw up on the house” lights, see here. Merry Christmas. Or Whatever. … Continue reading
It’s Christmas Eve here. I haven’t celebrated Christmas in an awful long time…probably not since we lived in Europe and had our first white Christmas evah (I was in my forties…), and did really Christmassy things like go to the … Continue reading
…at the end of writing the first draft of a book. … Continue reading
So here it is: 2,500 words longer than my goal. Which leaves me 7,500 to play around with in the numerous rewrites coming up.I love rewrites. They are so much easier than the first draft slog. Book Two of Random … Continue reading
I just spent a day and a night in Seremban, the capital of Negri Sembilan state, because my husband had a meeting there at the lovely Royale Bintang – used to be the Adelphi. That’s the pink building peeking through … Continue reading
I have been looking at the analysis of hits to this blog, and you know what? Saturdays and Sundays have substantially less hits than weekdays. Are you to be commended for spending your weekends communing with your families instead of … Continue reading
I don’t think the first draft is going to come in at quite 170,000. It will be over. But even so, not much to do now. The battle is raging. People are dying. Confrontations are occurring. And love is there … Continue reading
Remember I mentioned that these lakes were the inspiration for one part of Book 2 of The Isles of Glory? The Australian cover depicts the lake as it is portrayed in the book. Here are a couple of paragraphs. In … Continue reading