Tumbleweed
After many months of the online equivalent of tumbleweed at this blog, I am at a loss as to what to do with it. I've just spent the last two days at Eastercon (and will be going back for the...
View ArticleExperience the dystopian future - today!
If you want to feel like a character in a dystopian near-future sci-fi novel, take the Waterloo & City Line from Waterloo to to Bank at 6pm on a rainy day and behold the gray hordes in long...
View ArticleWork, book reviews, more work and Oasis
I still colour code things in my diary. A red dot means "travel or out of office". In the last few months I've been in Poole, on Dorset fields, in Finland and in London more than I've been at home...
View ArticleI've also had a lot of FUN lately
This new product invention from Lush is available today only at a pre-launch party before the official launch in UK in the next few days. I had the chance to work on the pink and the yellow varieties...
View Article12 new scents by yours truly
The winter selection of limited edition products at Lush has been revealed. Now I can also tell you a little bit more about what I've been up to! We started working on Christmas products back in...
View ArticleThe Messenger - Oasis Game diary
This August, the Oasis game came to the UK for the first time and was played in Silvertown, a corner of Newham in East London. I attended the training program and project weekend, along with several...
View ArticleCreative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
I've been writing for Blogcritics since 2005 and although I haven't had the time to be particularly prolific, it's gratifying to be able to write about the topics I enjoy and review books that look...
View ArticleThis is so cool I might just pop!
A book shop in Toronto has set up a vintage book vending machine, the Biblio-Mat, in a hope to attract new customers and become a destination store. I hope it will work. I am booking my flights to...
View ArticleIn a hole in the ground there lived an Englishman
Despite my grumbles about the Hobbit being made into three films instead of one, we did go to see the first of the new trilogy today and enjoyed most of it. I'm assuming that readers of this blog will...
View ArticleT minus who knows
I've started a new blog at Wordpress and will be closing this one soon-ish. In a month or so, I imagine. Please bookmark the new one now and see you there!
View ArticleOff to Seoul!
This week I'll be the Guest of Honour at a Korean 'Smelly Concert' - a recreation of London's Carnaby Street with a Lush theme. It would have been a better job for Mark or Simon but the former is on...
View ArticleSeoul Music
I had a really great time in Seoul - read about my trip here! There is something about Korea that seems to resonate with me; I can't put my finger on what it might be. I hope to go back...
View ArticleRoses and festivals
This month I have been mostly smelling of roses and attending festivals. If you're interested in what happened in Turkey during the rose harvest, head on over here - and if you'd like to see my...
View ArticleLibrary closures - should we just accept them?
There have been many library closures in the UK and North America recently. Meanwhile South Korea is opening new ones. What's going on? Are public libraries obsolete? I wrote an article about this...
View ArticleOff to Seoul!
This week I'll be the Guest of Honour at a Korean 'Smelly Concert' - a recreation of London's Carnaby Street with a Lush theme. It would have been a better job for Mark or Simon but the former is on...
View ArticleSeoul Music
I had a really great time in Seoul - read about my trip here! There is something about Korea that seems to resonate with me; I can't put my finger on what it might be. I hope to go back...
View ArticleRoses and festivals
This month I have been mostly smelling of roses and attending festivals. If you're interested in what happened in Turkey during the rose harvest, head on over here - and if you'd like to see my...
View ArticleLibrary closures - should we just accept them?
There have been many library closures in the UK and North America recently. Meanwhile South Korea is opening new ones. What's going on? Are public libraries obsolete? I wrote an article about this...
View ArticleWork, book reviews, more work and Oasis
I still colour code things in my diary. A red dot means "travel or out of office". In the last few months I've been in Poole, on Dorset fields, in Finland and in London more than I've been at home...
View ArticleCreative Illustration by Andrew Loomis
I've been writing for Blogcritics since 2005 and although I haven't had the time to be particularly prolific, it's gratifying to be able to write about the topics I enjoy and review books that look...
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