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Random Ramble
I missed posting on Saturday. A technical glitch with the security software I run on my laptop had me in a flat spin of panic…only to be revealed to be totally their fault. Not mine! This is rare when I venture into the tech world, so although it was a bit stressful and annoying, I’m…
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Afternoon Tea – You’re invited!
I got so excited to be visiting Cathryn Hein and chatting about my family’s Sunday afternoon tea tradition and how it links to a tea party scene in my steampunk novella, Wanted: One Scoundrel, that I forgot to invite you all. Please drop in. I’m sharing Mum’s custard sponge cake recipe and asking for YOUR…
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Toby photos
If you’re not a fan of pet photos on blogs, look away now! Just quietly, I’ll confess: the photos are because my To Do list is huge and I just froze at the thought of coming up with a blog post, today. Do any of you have fallback ideas for blog posts when you’re tired?
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Recent Discoveries
Is this a lazy post? Maybe, but you might find the odd gem. These are things I’ve discovered so far in 2012 or things it’s taken me till 2012 to understand. So here goes: Inkjoy pens by Papermate. Love, love, love the easy writing. Very nearly as effortless as they promise. Wish I’d had them…
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Thoughts
Reading The Guardian‘s obituary for Vaclav Havel I was struck by a quotation from him: “Experience of a totalitarian system of the communist type makes emphatically clear one thing which I hope has universal validity: that the prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics really should be ethics put into practice.” I wish politicians could…