Wednesday, June 1, 2016. The birdsong is constant, all you have to do is listen. The sun is strident, a force on the body as heavy as gravity. The green is relentless, creeping out from crevices too small to contain it. And the wind carries on the promise of summer. Wednesday, June 01, 2016. Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Tuesday, May 31, 2016.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it. Ursula Le Guin, Telling is Listening. I finished rereading her Left Hand of Darkness last November. I just heard the news of her passing this evening. Friday, December 29, 2017.

In praise of tea shops. Mrs C is particularly bad at relaxing when there is work to be done around the house. And, as you can imagine, with 4 kids around, there is always work to be done around the house. So we are regularly to be found sharing a drink, and maybe a scone, at one of our local places. Here are some of my favourites. Rose Cottage Tearooms, Castleton. This was our honeymoon tea shop, right in the middle of the wonderful Peak District town.

How I Beat Plot Sludge.

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Simmering Tales of Speculative Fiction. Georgie, his wife, had called not fifteen minutes ago and said the baby was coming. But he was stuck in the most important sales meeting of the year, and it was nowhere near over. The end of the serial Fire and Water has come at last.