• [slideshow] I’ve not got time to talk about my trip this week, so here are a few pictures from Torquay.
    Cobleys fish shop windows, A graffiti on the promenade, the town cross that lookslike a space rocket about to take off at any moment, a dinosaur in a shop window, amazing cap stones on the front – each one looks like a miniature mountain range.

    I didn’t have fish and chips at Cobleys _ I went over the road to the Bombay Express, which I can heartily recommend!

  • I’m off to my holiday cottage in South Wales agin this week. No, not for a holiday, but a week in schools, talking about writing.

    Meantime, I’ve been asked for some finished drawing s of Axel Storm by tomorrow morning, as I’l have no more time next week. I’ve stories to write and illustrations to do. More visits next week and all the time the internet nags away wanting more!

    Ho Hum! At least the sun is shining.

  • I’m going completely mad, installing a new hard disk drive into my ageing apple ibook, going from 30mb to 160mb. I got the disk from malaysia on ebay.

    Of course it didn’t work! But I thought it should, so I undid all the mad, fiddly screws again and eventually found that I’d inadvertantly dislodged a connector in a place I hadn’t even opened up.

    By this time all the screws were muddled up and I forgot to put various bits back so I’ve opened an closed it about five times now. But the disk is there and loading a new, fresh operating system on.

    I’d upgrade to leopard before, but I’m taking it back to Tiger, because it didn’t really seem to happy. I’ll see how it goes.