Diversionary Tactics (3)

These attempts are getting less and less successful. At least the latest episode of Heroes kept me distracted. I liked the switch to five years in the future, after the bomb and everything’s changed. I’m saving this week’s Jericho til tonight, so last night I fired up EQ for a couple of hour of good […]

Diversionary Tactics (2)

Last night’s attempt at mental misdirection was something of a motley collection. Each was engrossing in itself, but short lived. Here’s the rundown: Wednesday Fives – cracking game of football which involved my side coming back from a seven goal deficit to snatch a tie at the end. Totally absorbing for the hour it lasted, […]

Diversionary Tactics(1)

In order to stop me from going quite mad with worry and over-speculation in the coming days, I’ve decided to employ a series of diversionary tactics, which I’m then going to relate to you lot to further distance my thoughts from the subject during the day time. Last night’s effort, coinciding with it being the […]

Coming Down The Road

I’ve got an earworm. You know, a tune that keeps popping into your head and won’t go away? This one, it’s the one that goes “We’ll be coming, we’ll be coming, we’ll be coming down the road…” Aye, coming down the road. Five days to go, and the tension’s already getting to me. By Friday […]

It’s not often you know what you’ll be doing seven years in the future

…but in the summer of 2014 I rather imagine I’ll be strolling down to Kelvingrove to watch the bowls, or heading out to Hampden to catch the athletics, or perhaps even scoping out the swimming at Tollcross. Commonwealth Games, blimey!

WFC Not

Suddenly realised that it’s World Fantasy this week in Saratoga Springs. I’m not going, but I really wish I was. Hope everyone has braw time of it. Well it looks like Mr Duncan did (like I expected him not to???)!

Halloween Fun

Carve your own pumpkin.

There was a barber and his wife…

This makes me exceptionally excited…

Stealing Light

The new book from Gary Gibson out this week from TorUK/PanMacmillan is called “Stealing Light“. According to John Berlyne’s exceptionally positive review Gary’s quickly establishing himself as a star of the “Scottish school”. Knowing Gary’s disinclination towards national appellations, I’m not sure how he’d feel about that claim. But I think it’s pretty accurate. And […]

Golden Oldies

In my teens I watched a lot of bad movies. It was the early eighties, and our family had just got our first VCR. It was a betamax, but in those days video shops stocked movies in three flavours – VHS, Beta, V2000 – so we weren’t stuck for dodgy old horror movies or low-low-budget […]