According to the official website, “International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.” It seems almost fitting to be celebrating it this year, what with the tide of radical change […]
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Save Our Libraries
There has been a lot of talk on the Internet of late about plans in the UK to close many public libraries as their latest idea for saving money. Other people clearly feel the same way, if the #savelibraries hashtag on Twitter is anything to go by. Personally, I’m absolutely horrified at the idea – […]
Three Words for 2011
I’m an avid follower of blogger Deb Ng, having discovered her on the Freelancer Writing Jobs blog, and now her new venture, Kommein. On her 2 January post, she follows the advice of super-blogger Chris Brogan and recommends choosing three words to sum up the year ahead. Now, I realised in the latter part of […]
2011 – New Year, Same Icy
So it’s finally 2011. I could sit here and dissect how well I maintained the resolutions I made in 2010 but I’d rather look forward than back. (For those who are interested, I managed two out of ten, but considering one of them was to master teleportation, that’s hardly surprising). I don’t actually like the […]
I’ve been tagged!
I have been tagged! Yes, it’s an electronic tag, but not in a Lindsay Lohan way. It’s a virtual tag, and Jen Brubacher got me. I get to answer eight questions and tag five other bloggers. Will it be you?! 1. If you could have any superpower, what would you have? Why?Teleportation. Like Nightcrawler, only […]
Fabulous Flash Award
Jon Strother, founding father of FridayFlash said recently: “I have decided to start the Fabulous Flash Award to spotlight some folks I feel deserve recognition for their, well… fabulous flash fiction.” Well I was given the award by the very lovely and super awesome Sam of Future;Nostalgic, a fellow Northerner and wonderful writer. I love reading […]
