A friend recently admired a long line of UK non-fiction magazine issues that I get twice a year and then looked at the price and blinked. “Wow, they cost!” Yes, they do, because although they aren’t gloss-covers, they are over 80 pages in foolscap per issue, feature some very well-known names in mystery fiction in …
May 2013 archive
THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND by Nigel Cawthorne
Published Hardcover, Piatkus 2004. Some weeks ago I read that it it illegal to enter Michigan wearing a chicken on your head. I had quite a bit to say about that which, when attending a library sale the other day, inclined me to purchase the above book. This has provided both a lot amusement and …
Keeping the Old Folks at Home
Last year it occurred to me that now I’m officially retired and on a pension a short-term job could be interesting. I’m single, and I don’t mind taking the occasional risk. So, discovering that a special type of security firm is situated an hour’s drive from here I applied to them and offered to accept …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – GRANT CALLIN?
Grant David Callin was born in 1941. Callin graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1963, and retired from the service in 1984. He holds a bachelor’s degree in basic sciences, and advanced degrees in space physics, physiology and biophysics. From 1986, he worked for Boeing as a research analyst, and was also involved with …
New story sale
Yes, The Third Floor sold to Ray Bradbury Tribute anthology – Dandelions of Mars – coming out soon from Whortleberry Press.The thing about the story is that I originally wrote it back in 1987 for a competition being held by the Australian SF Foundation for Best Unpublished Story. That was allied to their National Convention …
NOT A HAPPY CAMPER!
Recently I received a grocery catalogue and as usual read my way through – to discover an offer that appealed to me. I was offered two bags of cat biscuits by a manufacturer whose products I usually buy in a different brand. The two bags were offered at a slightly lower price for the duo …
Busy for Thunder too
Yes, he had a great week a couple back. A long lost relative (and partner) arrived and to my spotted friend’s delight they were cat lovers. He landed joyfully on the settee between them and was cuddled, scratched, stroked and petted for an hour and a half. When they left he followed them to the …
Busy still
the revision for my collection of SF/F cat stories, now officially titled Katalagein, progresses, but as I’m also scrambing to clear articles and reviews owed in several places, it’s keeping me hopping. One of the most recent articles has been a furious “While Stocks Last” legal Trickery, which appeared in our local newspaper recently and …
Mus Minimus.
16 May 2013
Temperatures dropped solidly for last Friday and Saturday, and – every ready to be cyclic, it’s supposed to do it again this coming Friday/Saturday. But with cold snaps I get mice. It’s a given that farms have mice. And as soon as it chills down, the farmhouse has mice. Last weekend both mousetraps sprang into …
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