It(wa)s Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!
Sorry about the lapse in blogging, but I got caught up in the family/social aspects of the season, and forgot.
The Gift List
Here we are then:
Books
-The entire Booker Prize Nominations list, six books in total - great present!
-Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody
-Pole to Pole with Michael Palin
Food
-Some chocolate biscuits
Stuff
-A concave glass picture frame
-Half-life Generation (all 4 half-life games in one pack - Cheers Dave!)
Clothing
-A Guinness fleece
-A blue v-necked long sleeved top
-A blue fleecey dressing gown
There we go!
I am now the only person I know, indeed, possibly in the UK, with four dressing gowns.
Wonderful.
'Tis The Season...
I'm off out tonight, where to is not yet clear, the mists of time are shrouded in...yes, yes! Beer froth.
The Lord of The Rings was pretty awesome, if a bit cheesy in places, but hey - this is where all that cheese came from, so it's excusable. I was particularly happy that there were lots of shots of massed armies etc etc, because when I went to see the first one, the picture was just enough out of focus to make all the charging armies in the historical flashbacks seem like grey smears sliding downhill, which after hearing tell of magnificent special effects, was annoying.
A plan has been hatched for a certain group of people (remaining nameless) to hmm, shall we say, move something or someone, or group of people, somewhere else. More than that I cannot say. But it might be linked to my determination to head for foreign climes, moderated down slightly...ie not foreign, or indeed, very far away at all.
Enough Bloody Enigmatism..if that's a word, which I doubt
Anyway, to clear stuff up, the 'publi-' crap from earlier this month is because....(small drum roll)...I have sold one of my stories.
£100 for 2500 words, experimental stuff in the end, to a chap wanting to accumulate a portfolio of stuff to take to investors with whom he wants to start a magazine. This is obviously v.v.v.cool, but means that any chance of seeing the damn thing in print hinges on him getting the magazine off the ground!
Anyway, I have begun to develop things financially, if not actually getting anything in print yet! I know that, somewhere, somebody will want what I can produce, and that, as far as I'm concerned, is some of the best news I've had all year, and a huge boost to my confidence!
We'll see what I can do next.
The Standard Bit
Have a great night on Tuesday, and if I haven't blogged by then, that's because I'm drunk.
Okay?
Happy New Year people, and if you have one of those episodes where you drink so much that you end up on a bleak, gorsey, wind-slapped island somewhere in the middle of nowhere, then mine's free, and you'll be welcome.
That's:
The 'Isle of Wight', South Of Where You Are, UK.
Ok?
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