Some Random Stuff about Songwriting

Added on 16 March 2011

The UK Songwriting Contest 2011 is now open for entries. You have to pay to enter, and if you win you don't receive any money, but no doubt it's a chance worth taking. The prizes are all about exposure and the chance to breathe the same air as Simon Cowell. I've entered the last two years, because ...

Mission To Mars Update #6

Added on 14 March 2011

As Professor Brian Cox said on Wonders of the Universe last night, "...blah... blah blah blah... something about space... blah blah blah..." These inspirational words are what underpin Long Midnight Publishing's dramatic new push to put a manned mission on the surface of Mars by early 2013...

Marathon Strategy (Or How Not To Look Like A Wretched Sack of Crap)

Added on 10 March 2011

The North Dorset Village Marathon is fast approaching. Fast. Much too fast. Seven weeks on Sunday. When I entered I had some grandly quick time in mind. 2 hours 30 minutes perhaps. Quicker, if I didn't stop to drink or anything; and then I could be sitting in the pub with a pint of cider and a plate...

Further Details on LMP's Mission To Mars

Added on 09 March 2011

So where exactly does the Long Midnight Publishing Mission to Mars stand at this precise moment? Our Scientific Cost Analysis Team, headed by ace accounting boffin Elvis Shackleton, estimate that to put together a programme from scratch that will be in a position to get a Mars landing project in th...

Boldly Into The Future

Added on 08 March 2011

Made pancakes for One of Two and Two of Two this morning. Prepared the batter last night, ready to go with ease, panache and verve this morning. I was like the Wolf in Pulp Fiction. If he'd made pancakes. Actually, if the Wolf had made pancakes, he wouldn't have made them as such, he would just have...