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Archive for August, 2007

A post-script ante-script

Posted by Reed on August 30th, 2007

By the way, I will be in the Lake District for a week. Sans Internet. Sorry.
Also, in an attempt to stop spam eating my mail service’s brain from the inside out, I have blacklisted the words porn, viagra, xanax, cialis, and chevrolet. Please do not use them in any comments, because said comments will be […]

Little Queen Spelling Bee

Posted by Reed on August 30th, 2007

Admirable people, namely Solnushka and Aphra, have been discussing spelling. And so, of course, I thought ‘Mmmmm, spelling…’ and went into a somewhat fugue state, as spelling is something I very nearly (and somewhat inadvertantly) created a hideously under-paid career in for myself. Which could be a reason why it’s taken me so long to […]

Gobsmacked by update

Posted by Reed on August 24th, 2007

Apologies for fretting people by vanishing into the aether for a month or so there. Your concern is very touching, and I am all verklempt.
Anyway, as announced in title, update on Youngest Sister.
Her A-level result has arrived - she took one, in Art, on account of being severely dyslexic and a poster-girl for ‘All the […]

Fit for purpose

Posted by Reed on August 19th, 2007

In that I haven’t been; fit for purpose, that is. First I had surgery (results, inconclusive, difference to health, indeterminable owing to vast quantities of drugs I am plying myself with), then I caught flu and spent two weeks staring bewildered at the thermometer which seemed to have got itself stuck in the hyperactive range, […]