Big floppy elephant cock…you there, in the back, stop laughing! And you there, at the front, stop sneering in disgust! Those are the two emotions I envisage when I imagine myself shouting the words ‘elephant cock’ to a classroom full…
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! Ahh, bullets, terrorists, and long walks along broken glass. I find it almost impossible to sing the real lyrics of the song and always find myself singing Sgt. Al Powell’s much…
You can lick up the coffee you just spat out, I said ‘cunct’ not…the other word. Cunctation – the action of delaying or putting off doing something. In other words a convenient ‘C’ based synonym for procrastination…ahhh, now that word…
Whenever people ask me what I do, I find myself hesitating and mumbling in the general direction of my feet. Granted this is how I answer most questions if approached by a stranger/friend/close relative, but this is a different shoe-gazing…
What better opportunity to get my arse back in gear than by once again taking part in the A-Z Blogging Challenge? A quick intro for those who have never heard of it before – blog every day in April (expect…
For those of you that took part last year, you already know the rules. Don’t forget to pop over to the website and fill in your details for this year’s novel. For those that didn’t, Camp NaNoWriMo is a lot…
The other day I was checking out an author’s website, skim reading their biography and flicking through their published works. Some I recognised, some I stuck on my (TBBT)TBR* pile. And then I hit a line that tickled my little…
It’s a February thing, right? Something in the air that makes writers want to throw down their work, fold their arms, pout their lip, and declare “that’s it, I give up!” Forums, FB, and Twitter seem to be full of…
…seriously, think about it. “How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past,…