Lib Dem Blues

Added on 07 May 2011

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent Vince Cable from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the trumpets and with muffled vote Bring out the coffin, let the Daily Mail gloat. Let aeroplanes circle, into the void they'll be sucked Scribbling on the sky the message The Lib Dems are Fucked...

Shackleton Dead In Space Tragedy

Added on 06 May 2011

The world of Mars Exploration was rocked today when it was announced that gentleman publisher and international adventurer Elvis Shackleton had died while attempting to land the prototype Long Midnight Mars Lander on the Moon. Having taken off on a solo flight from a small island off the coast of ...

New Short Story

Added on 05 May 2011

Last year I did a blog or two about novels that I'd written and then lost. They were, for the most part, rubbish of course, so they oughtn't to be considered in the same league as a lost Robert Louis Stevenson or a lost Thomas The Tank Engine. Even I, the writer of the lost novels, generally don't g...

Turmoil At Long Midnight as Shackleton Walks

Added on 03 May 2011

Confusion hangs over the offices of Long Midnight Publishing today as the international behemoth's freefall into oblivion continues at a pace that staggers even stock market veterans. Long standing Marketing Director, and the man credited with turning LMP into the third largest publishing company in...

I Never Saw The Cow Again

Added on 02 May 2011

I can walk today, after a fashion. I can't really use the old Danny Glover line 'I'm too old for this shit', as I'm only 46, and plenty of folk older than me run marathons and a damned sight more quickly 'n all. For example, yesterday I was overtaken by a wee round 55 year-old woman in the final 200...