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In the excitement of Disney Infinity and Day Of The Doctor, I forgot to mention that I completed my Nano 2013 story four days ago - coming in around 58,000 words. So once again, after having to restart the story after around 2,000 words, I have finished my story ten days early, five days bef...

Week 2 has gone a great deal better than week 1. Firstly because it was longer, secondly because I have not had to abandon my story and start another, and thirdly because I actually have a fair idea where the story is going and possibly even how to get it there. It has lead to me…

So the first - very short - week of National Novel Writing Month, 2013, is over. It has already proved to be as chaotic as last year, but at least this time it did not take me quite so long to realise I was never going to finish the novel I had started. Last year…

Last year I started one story, scrapped it eight days later, started a brand new one the next day and completed it twenty days later. This year I am hoping for a slightly easier time :) THE INTERVIEW Emily Brown goes for a job interview at DWP. A story of love, loss, drama, the inherent...

Matt Taylor has more on what we can expect from Monday's storm and the areas most likely to be affected by strong winds and heavy rain. Commuters are being warned of travel disruption on Monday as a storm bringing hurricane-force winds and rain starts moving across England and Wales.  Three ...

So I was caught up in the change from LlloydsTsb to Lloyds/TSB. I was with TSB originally, then got merged in to the big group, and now they are splitting up again, I am going back to my roots! (And also taking the opportunity to move all my accounts to one place, rather than having the...

You can be a mass murdering, genocidal maniac but if you repent just before you die, you get to go to heaven. (Harry Potter, Star Wars) Don’t judge people on first impressions - you may end up being set on fire. (Twilight) Don’t take sweets from strangers. (Narnia) All spiders are evi...

I have been writing software for around 30 years - half of that professionally.  In that time I have written software in 13 different programming languages, all with their own quirks and foibles, and their own development environments. So while I can not claim to be the source of a...

So tonight I watched the last two episodes of the latest series of The Newsroom (and hopefully not the LAST series, despite there being no apparent news as to whether it has been reviewed or not) and I have to admit, I don't think I have seen anything more spectacular than tho...

For reasons that I have no real desire to explain, I am entirely done with Twitter. So where as before I would go on there and rant about the dumb-ass politics this world seems to be drowning in, or about the utter moronity (which I am pretty sure is not actually a word, and n...