• It was hot and still walking in the Forest this afternoon. The blackberries are ripe and plump and fungi is bursting out every where you look. It’s a beautiful late summer, but you cannot escape the feeling that it’s really early autumn.

    Walking under the brilliant green canopy a phrase popped into my head:

    The Summer’s weight of leaves have done their work.

    I feel I must have got it from somewhere, but nothing comes up on Google.

    For a moment, I had the sensation of tons of leaves hanging in the air above me. They’ve done their job and now they are relaxing in the sun, just waiting for the frost to come and help them on their way back to Earth, where they will start their slow return to the roots and so become leaves again in time. Hmmm – bit poetic, huh?

    I hear people around me grumbling that the Summer is over and Autumn is here, but I love Autumn, and I love Winter and Spring and Summer too. I think we are so lucky to have our seasons. It must get a little boring having the same weather everyday. At least it gives us something to talk about – and boy, do we British love to talk about the weather!

  • Here’s a video of me drawing a couple of spreads from my upcoming book, Axel Storm – Sea Wolf. Hope you enjoy it.

  • There are good guys out there! In my post yesterday about This Website Business, I mentioned how much work was involved in making sure that a registration system was secure and how I thought one of those who had registered was a bit suspicious.

    Well, last night I received a very strange email. It came from Digilante – the digital vigilante. Digilante was so fed up with having their forums spammed, they bit back and spammed the spammers, taking over their email accounts, so that whenever they compromise a forum account, an email is sent to the webmaster warning them to tighten up security. How brilliant is that!

    I got straight onto my admin account, closed down the login and erased the offending registered accounts. There’s a lot to think about before I allow people to log on to the site to access extra content .

    It is weird though. It’s as though the Dark Knight is watching over me from the roof tops! I feel a little bit special to have been picked out for their protection – silly but heart warming. Thanks Digilante – I think you may have saved from a whole heap of hassle!