This morning I learnt that a school chum has published a novel. Not a close friend or anything but being a curious kind of person I popped over to Amazon buy it: Who is Charlie Conti? by Claus von Bohlen. And while I was there I tought, “well, I’d better get Richard Mason’s new book […]
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Blame my mum for the fact I know this song. She had a Dr Hook tape and I think it got played quite a lot when I was wee. Well, blame my mum and Radio 2. Radio 2 still plays their tape. So, here’s my homage to that great song ‘When you’re in love with
Venn you’re in love with a beautiful woman… Read More »
NaNoWriMo is a great idea. It’s obvious to me that the daily discipline of sitting down and writing words with a deadline works: it’s certainly been how my modest past works have been produced. And from the experience of writing those worthless volumes I know I can write 1700 words a day and much more.
NaNoWriMo: the story so far… Read More »
Getting top billing in search on eBay has never been more complicated. In the system they call ‘Best Match’ there is a lot that remains unknown. What do we know for sure? We know that Feedback DSRs are important. We also know that having made a sale on a 30 day multiple BIN listing boosts
eBay Sellers: Have you considered ‘Shill Buying’? Read More »
Pulp. I just love Pulp and one song will come to that desert island when I’m famous enough and I think it’s probably gonna be this one. Oh Jarvis. Where would I be now? Where would I be now, if we’d never never met? Would I be blogging this song somewhere else instead? And I’m
After the great song from REM, that I listened to way too much in 1993: Part of my ongoing homage to Graphjam and Indexed.
You can judge a man by the company he keeps. So what is Raymond Blanc, distinguished chef and successful businessman, doing in The Restaurant with the grating and graceless Sarah Willingham? I have previous with Willingham. It dates back a few years to the time she became Managing Director of the once great South London
Sarah Willingham: J’accuse. Read More »
Spotted in Brighton this weekend, it’s a delight to see that the Evening Argus is the first for news. One can only imagine it was a slow news day? And in other news, my namesake, former Seagulls player and Hartlepool FC boss, Danny Wilson says his team should have beaten the Albion. Glad they didn’t
King Alfred is Dead* Read More »
Happy day. Happy happy day. But to quote Tony Blair in 1997: “The time for talking is over. It is now time to do.” Photo credit.
Good Morning, Mr President-Elect Read More »
I’m totally on edge. I can’t concentrate on anything. I’ve been pacing the floor. I can’t eat. I’m going to be up all night watching results from the presidential election in the US. Does this make me weird? Probably. But as some people love football or F1, I love elections. And this is the best
It’s the damn waiting… Read More »
(I’ll be popping a few more of my homages to GraphJam and Indexed up in the next few weeks. Keep ’em peeled.)
‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ Venn Read More »
Waitrose on Western Road. The checkout lady asks me if I’ll need some bags. I ask for two. The woman in the queue behind me, the sort of forty-something social worker type who puts the ‘right on’ into Brighton tuts. She then chides me for not bringing reusable bags: ‘we all need to make small
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It’s taken me about 4 years to get to 1000 Feedback on one of my accounts. I got my red shooting star. The next star is 5000. Thanks for the encouragement. ETA 2020.
eBay: Thanks for the encouragement. Read More »