…to get back online. I mean, I’m on line every day, like almost everyone else on the planet who has a computer or a local library or a school or a friend or a café that has a computer. & indeed I’m very, very grateful that on line exists. Covid, no car* & a manic perpetual motion…
Month: November 2022
The Day After Grand Thingummy*
Thank you thank you THANK YOU** to all of you who read or heard SFWA’s mad*** announcement yesterday & expressed some kind of positive spin on ‘oh wow how did that happen? What were they on anyway?’† Extra points to the people who threaded the technological maze & emailed me to say nice things about it. I am not in the least scorning good…
Hey Wow WHAT?? Golly Gee Whiz
My stepson has been calling me Grand Matriarch. Works for me.
Technology Is Not My Friend. I Knew That.
Okay, this post is not going to be about Genghis’ name.* This is a digression on the clear indisputable fact that technology is possessed by demons.** Also, yes, there is a reason why I’m scrambling*** to get back on line now rather than a week/month/decade† from now & supposing the freaking technology lets me there will be an interesting…
Genghis the Mongol Horde
My last dog died two & a half years ago, in the middle of the first, worst covid lockdown over here*. I nearly went with her out of sheer despair. I’d only moved up here a little over a year before, I’d moved into this house less than six months before, & the renovations, furthermore,…
Strange Pedestrian Encounters
It’s teeming down rain here, cats, dogs, budgerigars, moose, tarantulas, snow leopards, naked mole rats, other creatures hitherto unknown to humankind, hammering against the windows & thundering on the roof, & in fact it has been teeming down here for days, in fact days & days, which is very embarrassing because I like to say that northeast Scotland is a well-kept…
Announcement
******** IN MEDIAS RES. I’m not a linear thinker at the best of times, & just to get going again I’m writing these first posts from where I am now. I promise to catch you up********