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No, I am not referring to Terry Pratchett’s wonderful book with the same name as this blog entry, but it just seemed so relevant to my current little contretemps that I couldn’t help using it, too.
Before I explain the connection, I need to mention Bill Bryson (another of my favorite authors). In his also wonderful [...]
So, I sometimes have problems with technology, and last week I had a problem loading Firefox and listening to my weekly podcasts online. I.e., I couldn’t listen to them. At all. They just wouldn’t play. So I called my Internet guru, No-Longer-Teenager No#1.
She advised me to update Java, uninstall and reinstall Firefox, and hey presto! [...]
No, I am not going all Mary Poppins on you (although I could, according to Super Mum, recite supercalerfrajelisticexpialidocious perfectly when I was three).
One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to be more proactive in helping others, including non-human animals, so I decided that one of the easiest and instant things I could do [...]
If you saw the following headline splashed across the front page of your local newspaper?
Well, that is exactly what was on the front page of my local newspaper’s recent edition, and I immediately assumed the worse. Was the water supply contaminated due to the floods we’ve had recently? Was there a new flu epidemic in [...]
. . . Charles Darwin!
Those who know me or who are familiar with my books will probably have an inkling that I am fascinated by science. Even though I am not always terribly ept at putting technology to practical use. . .
But whether it’s biological or astrophysical or geological or particle physical, I love to [...]
It’s true!
The Fortunate Fashionista this month is Amber S of Williamsburg, VA.Congratulations, Amber, a copy of Confessions of a Serial Dater will be on its way to you very soon.
Thanks for playing, everyone, and please do enter again to win more free books.
So, early this morning I set off on my journey to Luton airport, from whence I would fly to Amsterdam, then take a train to Rotterdam and be reunited with Oh Patient One.
It never occurred to me that history was going to repeat itself. Again. Kind of. And that by the middle of the day [...]
