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Apology

For the really poor standard of music reviews at the minute. I’m so out of practice! I’m also feeling more than a bit off my game today. I’m coming down with another cold, the first for a long time. It’s making me a bit too woolly headed to really write properly. The other posts are pre-written – I write the review when I finish the book, and then copy and paste once I get to a WiFi connection.

I’ve managed to get all my other reviewing admin done today so I think I’ll probably go off line for a bit and have a nap, or possibly read the new issue of Mslexia that arrived just before I left home this morning

Have a good week everyone,

Rose

The changing face of CD packaging

And to continue the subject of music…

 

It’s probably not the most fascinating of subjects to most people but something caught my eye as I was contemplating my CD collection recently. I was sizing them up for new storage. This never used to be a problem because I hardly owned any music, but in the last couple of years I have collected rather a lot. During this operation I realised I might have a bit of a problem getting storage because standard CD racks are designed for one format of CD case and I had several different types. And that was when it hit me.

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Progress report ‘Variations on a Theme’ short story collection

As I may have mentioned in a previous post, I’m working on a collection of short stories and have been for most of this year.

The collection came about because I wad on the train home from a concert last year and started writing ‘first line prompts’. I took one of these, two prompts from a Tumblr blog I follow, and a random picture I liked, and decided to see what I could do.
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It’s bank holiday weekend…

..And I spent it at work.

But not tomorrow.

So tonight I’m getting quite drunk while watching series 1 of ‘Game of Thrones.’ I haven’t seen it yet, or read the books. It’s rather good so far. I really need to get to books. Apparently the series is close to the books with minor sub-plots that aren’t in the books.

Each episode is nearly an hour long and I’m quite tired since I was at work at six this morning and haven’t had a nap today. we will probably carry on with the rest of the series tomorrow. Our library has series two. If I had any cash I’d pop in on Tuesday and borrow the DVD’s for a week.

Something light hearted before I start posting book reviews

Reckless Love (hyperactive glam rock band from Finland – very 80’s!) release their new album ‘Spirit’ a week today. Today they released the video for one of the songs on that album. The song is called ‘So happy I could die’, and it really is a cheerful tune.

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Lists work for me; goal setting my way through the piles of work I have to do.

I mentioned a couple of days ago that I have trouble getting anything done without deadlines and have been trying to rectify this.

I’ve made a start. On Tuesday night I wrote a list if goals for the month and then the week and then daily. Yesterday I succeeded in completing all my daily goals and two of my weekly goals. Today I complete another of those goals.

It would appear from this that the lists work! Now I just have to see if I can keep going.

Rose