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An interesting couple/few days
As some of you may have heard, this has been an unusual week in this corner of county Wicklow. At some point in the recent past, someone skimmed my bank card — whether during the pre-Christmas period or more recently, we’re still not sure. In the last few days, someone started playing around with a [...]
For the Solstice: “Invictus”
In the dimness he woke and knew it was too late. Morning never came so late unless the world was ending. Fortunately, he knew what to do about that. He blinked and ruffled his feathers, looking around. This was his place. Surrounding a patch of grass were two holly trees, a pine, a cypress whose [...]
Today’s Dr. Who moment: the perfect Whovian perfume
You could not make this up. While looking for more info about Queen of Hungary Water, I stumbled across this at a Hungarian perfumer’s site: Méchant Loup …A characteristic and powerful woody, spicy fragrance with a surprising hazelnut heart. Licorice, anice, pepper, pimento, hazelnut, oakmoss, patchouli, honey, tonka bean, castoreum. Sounds lovely. Especially when you [...]
(Queen of) Hungary Water: an inquiry
My husband likes to smell good in lots of different ways. As a result, he collects colognes — almost none of them the big names familiar in high-street shops and department stores. What P. mostly likes are less well known fragrances like the Extract of West Indian Lime from Geo F. Trumper’s, or the terrific [...]
The Calanda Saga Continues
So I finally got into Windows XP recovery console a few times and took a look around. The error message I’d been receiving was this one: “Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM” …which pretty much means a corrupted registry file. This can be fixed in the console, though [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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