If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Leo’s birthday meant Danish pastries. My first birthday on PCW I bought donuts, too, and everyone was very surprised. Nobody ever bought birthday cakes again until today. Perhaps that’s why they were surprised. It was only polits to follow […]

It’s been Postman Pat’s busy day today. I woke up to the sound of rain on the windowsill through the open window, and a stiff jaw that had probably been catching the cold breeze all night. What a strange sensation. Of course that first thing that sprang to mind was lockjaw, but I’ve not been […]

Took Jess to the vet first thing and she was ever so well behaved, poor thing. Very stressed at getting five needles in the neck, but then I would be, too. She had sweaty paws and left little pussycat footprints all over the rubbery black table. I left

The show ticket for next week’s trip to Berlin arrived this morning. I wasn’t entirely convinced it would considering how difficult it was to get hold of. The covering letter was all in German but Mark said it was something about ‘here is your ticket and these are the opening times’. I’m very impressed. Once […]

We had a beautiful storm last night. I could hear it slowly rumbling across from the sea, and then the rain came. I had the windows open and the wind blew through the flat, catching on the curtains and the blinds. I stood leaning out of the lounge window watching the sky lit up by […]

Well, they finally made Riyad’s resignation official today, and I don’t think it will have come as too much of a surprise to anyone. Within minutes we were getting emails about it. I guess it’s kind of understandable that an industry full of journalists should be the one in which news travels fastest. I started […]

A very nice lunch at Circus punctuated what was otherwise a rather dark and troubled day. More than ever now, the future must be considered with care. Two people proved once again how important it is to have good friends. My life is starting to sound like a horoscope.

I was supposed to spend the day on a boat on the Thames celebrating the tenth anniversary of Painshop Pro, but the weather was grey. I also had a big pile of work that needed doing, and simple maths dictated that the two added together made a day best spent in the office. As it […]

Up at the end of yesterday morning’s eight o’clock news with a view to leaving at ten. Paul went home to shower and do jobs, and arrived back with the car at five to eleven. In the meantime I’d loaded Fireworks, Dreamweaver and the text of the book onto my notebook and packed it all […]

Met Tim D from PC Pro in Mildreds at lunchtime for a very interesting chat about a potential writing project. His sister suggested two writers get together and write a book in alternate chapters. I’m pretty sure it’s been done before, but it is a good idea. The only worry is being able to do […]