Beleaguered Squirrel

I doubt anybody's actually checking this blog for updates any more, but just in case... I have a new blog. It's here: https://me...

I was about to read an article entitled "Are we alone in the universe?" but when I clicked on the link all I got was a spinny-roun...

I was driving to work this morning, listening to Capital FM. I often listen to it. I like it. They were playing something happy and poppy a...

Today I'm very privileged to be hosting an interview with Niki Valentine, who is doing a blog tour to promote the release of her novel...

Recently my mind has turned repeatedly to The Next Book. This is a book I will write one day. Because I am A Writer, and Writers Write Books...

(that was a typo in the title, but rather apt so I'm keeping it) Don't you just love it when a plan comes together? I do have th...

(sorry, this is a bit of a weepy one I'm afraid) Our dog Dipsy was 14 years years old. We'd had her since she was a puppy. She...

Thanks to Captain Black for alerting me that my old internet domain has been taken over by malicious hackers. Apparently if you visit the bo...

Hello. Dunno why I'm here really, just that I was reminded that I haven't been here for a while. It's weird though, I feel very ...

HA! Yes. I escaped. Well done me.

I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am more relieved than a relieved bag of 100% proof relief with a ...

Oh golly gosh I am very 'zausted. This is just a quick one while I have a rest from the relentless tide of progress. I have a job interv...

I'm back to doing agency work again, but have (almost) made a decision: I'm giving up on the new career. For now what I'm doing ...

Well, first, the boring stuff: After getting increasingly antsy and worried about not having work, I just landed a month of low-paid but eas...

People are strting to worry about me again, which I suppose may be justified, but I'm not convinced that blogging is really helping at t...

Stupid things. My 9-yr-old spotted a leaflet in Tesco: Some kind of competition for the best mum in the country. "You should enter t...

Everything fine here. Nasty in the centre of Manchester but nothing where we live. I was coincidentally in the main shopping street at the m...

Just had the job interview from hell. Fucked it up in about as many ways as it's possible to fuck something up. Walked in there already ...

I was wondering the other day, whatever happened to my creativity? I'm not writing anything and I'm mostly not that bothered. I don...

Hello, Thankyou to the kind person who enquired how I was - I am fine! Just busy. We have Chinese teenagers staying with us at the moment - ...