November 2013 archive

The Onions Have it

Yup, my mind went off on a wander of its own a few weeks back and I ended up with a short article on uses for onions other than in food. Sent that to the newspaper to file for next time they had a gap, and – they had one almost at once. So my …

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Recent Hiatus.

I know computers are Wonderful. That progress is Wonderful, and that I should approve computers and progress. There are times however, when I’m not sure not sure if computers and progress are Wonderful, and not sure if I do approve them. Such a time arrived on Monday two weeks or so back. I connected up …

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Gozzled.

well, as I put it, the geese have gozzled. One gosling, and only one, but that’s better than nothing and before Christmas its feathers should have started coming in and I’ll know what sex it is. (My geese are part Sebastopol and feather colour is sex-linked.) If it’s a boy I’ll have to find it …

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Fire Season by David Weber and Jane Linskold.

Softcover published BAEN August 2013. Reviewed by Steve Johnson. Second in what may be a trilogy, or possibly a longer series ultimately. This goes back to the founder of Honor Harrington’s House and tells the story of Stephanie Harrington, first to bond with a Treecat. Lionheart saves her life, she saves his, and that’s it, …

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