Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
All three Moffat novels are available here
My stories
13 Don't You Step on my BluTacked Screws...
Sorry about that... More of Prospero Vint. Image author's own
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12 "Better Get a Travelodge"?
I find the ads a bit annoying. Don't you? (Old) Travelodge Logo used under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Attribution TFE Hotels, CC BY-SA 4.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0> , via Wikimedia CommonsWikipedia. Image created at canva.com
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11 "I Just Don't Like Hastings"
No disparagement of Hastings intended. It's a character's words, not mine. Image from Flicker.com licence CC BY-NC 2.0
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10 Off at Nine
More of this, I'm afraid. BTW, I haven't used Windows for years. Not since Windows 2000. If only the image were bigger. Anyway, it's the name of the pub mentioned... Which no more exists than, well, that tree falling in the wood.
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9 Room 13
Room 13 Unlucky - or maybe lucky - for some. That's it for the week, maybe more on Monday. Image made at canva.com.
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Extra big helping
Posted on Tue, 05 Dec 2023
of your splendid diary - "eafily af good af Famuel Pepyf" Mrs Pepys.
Erm... I am probably being dim, but since прия́телка in Russian is a slightly more formal 'Gal Pal', is your lovely partner appearing pseudonymously?
NO! Don't...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - November 2023 – Second Half
Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 24 Nov 2023
Posted on Thu, 23 Nov 2023
Chilling and matter of fact at once, in a poem too!
Congratulations on being our Pick of the Day.
Please, could all readers share this on whatever SM platforms you use?
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Speaking of US/UK
Posted on Tue, 21 Nov 2023
continuity. although Dulux is a US brand of paint too, did they ever use the Old English Sheepdog as part of their branding? The Dulux Dog was used in campaigns in AUS and NZ, but I don't think it was in the States.
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Read full commentE x
Posted in Those We Leave Behind
Fine,
Posted on Thu, 23 Nov 2023
chewily satisfying, language. Like the best renderings of the macabre, it is very matter of fact.
You have a typo improbably vice improbable in second stanza line 9.
Good poem.
E x
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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 30th October 2023
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023
Well done, glad to see you are carrying on with this.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 11
Chemo is awful,
Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023
but it's better than the alternative. That said, anyone who is faced with a second or third round of chemotherapy in the event of a recurrence of disease, is entitled to opt for whatever is the best for them. My wife's aunt couldn't face her...
Read full commentPosted in Chemo 2 - dose one
Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 17th October 2023
Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023
This 3rd part of an ongoing piece of writing is our pick of the day.
Read full commentPlease retweet/post and/or share fellow ABCTalers, so it gets the audience it deserves.
Posted in 'Parcel for you..' Part 3
I do like this
Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023
ingenious and matter-of-fact.
I'm willing to bet by the time your narrator gets her man-bot programmed it'll be a woman. (Joking!)
Keep going
E x
Read full commentPosted in 'Parcel for you..' Part 3
When I was much younger ...
Posted on Fri, 13 Oct 2023
watching Fireball XL5 enthused me about spaceships and science. From age 10 (John Christopher's books) to 23 or so I read swathes of Golden and Silver Age science fiction. I joined the computer club at school. I began to read about advances in...
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No, I think
Posted on Thu, 12 Oct 2023
a bit is probably fine. I don't know much, but it doesn't stop my enjoyment of it. I do feel I'm missing something, since my linguistic ability has never allowed me to learn to read music. It's the only language I've tried to learn that...
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