I’m pretty certain Ezzie and Gyfa spent the day in my bedroom; they’ve taken the sheet off the bed and kicked the pillows all over the place.
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All Hallows Eve?
Evening ladies and gents.
It’s Halloween or Samhain for some people. Whether as a religious or secular occasion, it has been a few years since I gave much thought to it. I don’t celebrate either the religious festivals of All Hallows Eve etc., or Samhain. Nor am I a child so I find the whole trick or treat business a nuisance. I have dogs; random strangers knocking at the door upsets them.
October Reviews: Part Two
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, once again I return with a collection of book reviews. Work is still occupying half my days and the rest I am trying to dedicate to writing. Best of luck to everyone taking part in NaNoWriMo 2014, have a good November.
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Some people have no manners
Have you seen this video? It’s been all over my Facebook and WordPress dashboards for the last couple of days. After a couple of my friends were tagged in or commented on it in Facebook post I thought it was about time I found out what all the fuss was about. For the sake of being able to make conversation. Because I try to do that now.
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The Funeral Of Hearts – Acoustic version
http://open.spotify.com/track/7g2vbUhCgv203s05yR31QA
It’s been exactly a year since I saw HIM in concert in Nottingham. This is my favourite version of my favourite song.
It’s beautiful.
Paraphrasing Pratchett
It’s either in Small Gods or in one the the Witches books in the Discworld series that Terry Pratchett says something I particularly agree with.Continue reading “Paraphrasing Pratchett”
The Age of Loneliness Is Killing Us
What do we call this time? It’s not the information age: the collapse of popular education movements left a void filled by marketing and conspiracy theories. Like the stone age, iron age and space age, the digital age says plenty about our artifacts but little about society. The Anthropocene, in which humans exert a major impact on the biosphere, fails to distinguish this century from the previous 20. What clear social change marks out our time from those that precede it? To me it’s obvious. This is the Age of Loneliness.
When Thomas Hobbes claimed that in the state of nature, before authority arose to keep us in check, we were engaged in a war “of every man against every man,” he could not have been more wrong…
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Gothic Imagination
There are times when I wish trains were cheaper, and now might be one of them. There’s an exhibition on at the British Library called
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
that I really would like to see. I might have to take a trip down to London on one of my ‘four-off’s in November or December. I wonder whether I can go there and back in a day without completely exhausting myself? And I’d need to find fairly cheap train tickets, but still, it might be possible.
October Reviews, part 1
While I’m getting used to my new job I’m going to post my reviews in a single blog post. They will probably be quite short, a summary of the content or plot, followed by my opinion and reasons for that opinion.
Enjoy
Winterfyllith
Winter hasn’t quite arrived, but it has sent a text to tell us to put the kettle on.
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Everything Is Better With Dragons 