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I am not a party person but I do have a party trick. I can instantly convert any letter of the alphabet to its number from 1 to 26 so can spell out words in numbers. As such I can tell you that T is the 20th letter and V is the 22nd. Ergo 2022 is the year of TV.
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Twas the night before the day of the night before Christmas or, if that is too confusing, Christmas Eve Eve. I retired at 11 pm but have trouble sleeping and whilst I was trying something popped into my head from earlier this evening. This thought made me so angry that sleep was…
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Well, the Christmas programming has popped its head out and it might as well not have bothered. It gets worse and worse every year. At one time Christmas used to be when all the new and unseen stuff was on the TV. I could not wait to get hold of the Christmas ‘TV Times’ to plan…
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As the one avid reader of this blog knows, I finished my new novel in May and ever since it has been out in the market. First batch of submissions to literary agents totalled 11, although this included a couple of publishers too, and I have this week received the final…
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My novel was finished in May and since then I have been trying to interest a literary agent. A submission went out to ten and there have been some delays / false starts but the last rejection came in yesterday. This time there was a difference. Their website stated that even if…
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Yes, I acquired my 8th rejection of the new novel yesterday. In actual fact, this was the first agent I sent it out to on 23/5 but they had IT problems and never received it, so last week I sent it to them again. They turned it around quickly even though the agent I spoke too…
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When I saw the participants coming out of the tunnel for last night’s match my first thought was, about time.
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The sheer relief of standing by a pump. Who would have believed it? The first time since mid-August that I have filled up the car. How long has Petrolgate been going on? I know it was a Friday that it all kicked off. I only found out because I was out for a walk and the local…
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I have to do a test post to check network settings as there seems to be a problem with my Facebook page, so I thought I might as well tell my readers – well the one regular reader at any rate – about my current attack on Twitter.
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Best advert on TV at the moment? The one where two reality stars are skipped over by Anna Friel – notice I knew Anna Friel but not who the reality stars were. Splat! Best thing that could happen. I would qualify what I am about to say next by stating I have never watched any of…
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Those words are the first in my novel ‘Rewind’ which was my last novel, but they are relevant to my new one. Time is ticking down on my submission to three literary agents. As I mentioned before this is the time of demoralisation, with long periods of no news and then the…
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