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Sunday, January 19, 2020

Vale Christopher Tolkien!

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From Wikipedia. Fair use Christopher Tolkien, son of the wonderful J.R.R Tolkien, is no more. True, he did get to the decent a...
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Of A Newspaper Article That Made Me See Red!

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Here is a link to a newspaper article that made me angry. It involved some school in Queensland which had had this new and original ...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Just Been To See.. Little Women!

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 So, today I went into the city to meet a friend and see the latest version of the film Little Women . There have been several versions no...
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Monday, January 13, 2020

January 13 - Happy Birthday, Bart!

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Today is the birthday of my friend Bart Rutherford, who, incidentally, had an ancestor mentioned in my book  Crime Time: Australians Behav...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Just Been To See...The Rise Of Skywalker!

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So, today I went to see the final Star Wars movie in this saga, The Rise Of Skywalker. I won’t be giving you any spoilers here. I held of...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

On Discovering I Have A Wiki Page!

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I’m ending the year with something light. And here it is!  A few days ago, my nephew Mark, who is very good at finding stuff on Googl...
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Friday, December 27, 2019

Two Rereads And A New Book!

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I’ve just finished my reread of the wonderful The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, which I started as a Christmas Eve read. Strictly speak...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Compulsory Christmas Eve Post 2019!

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Last year at this time I was celebrating Jolabokaflod, the Icelandic Christmas Eve, where you exchange books as gifts and spend the evenin...
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Monday, December 16, 2019

Yet Another Grumble From The Slushpile!

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I’m back again with more complaints about my slushpile. I’ve done a few posts about this before, but not recently. For those of you wh...
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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Of Women In Science, And A Play About Rosalind Franklin

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Back in the 1990s, I wrote my second book, Potions To Pulsars: Women Doing Science , a children’s book about the history of women wh...
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