Dead Cat

Added on 23 March 2009

Whilst out for a family walk yesterday in the grounds of Wilanów Palace - the former summer residence of some Polish king or other, which has recently been repainted a very gauche, but visually arresting bright yellow - we happened upon a dead cat. Most of it was missing. In fact, the only pa...

0 Not Out

Added on 20 March 2009

I did that thing last month where I raked though my mum's loft and found lots of things I hadn't seen in twenty years. Books and tapes and Random Rubbish. I found my little cricket notebook from 1992. I had a notebook, I think, because I was captain of our midweek team. And I was really sad and want...

Blake's 7, The Magnificent Seven, Seven Pounds, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Added on 19 March 2009

Following on from their introduction to Monty Python & The Holy Grail and some of the finest movie lines of all time, which has had them scurrying around speaking in outrageous French accents for the last two days, last night I introduced the spawn to that other classic of 70's British culture, ...

State Of The Union

Added on 18 March 2009

Times are bleak at Long Midnight Publishing. Book sales are down, web hits are down. The Barney Thomson series, which at one time looked poised on the precipice of greatness, at the very cusp of taking over from Harry Potter as the Number 1 book series on Planet Earth Ever, has once more sunk back i...

Stuff

Added on 17 March 2009

Have finished the first re-write of The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson, in its transmogrification into The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt. Stopped counting the mistakes that were in the original text. Well, to be honest, I never actually started counting the mistakes. There were a lot of mistakes. Now I...