• The Tree Surgeon is right outside my studio door. His chainsaw is screaming as it slices through the remains of my old Silver Birch.

    And I realise that I’ve just done a good chunk of writing.

    Having found a million other reasons not to get down and write in the past few days, the first proper reason, i.e. “I can’t think with all this noise!” has not stopped me at all.

    Just goes to show – once you get going, nothing can stop you. It’s the getting going that is the hard part.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qOjk9xEegU

    It’s easy to get caught up in one’s art – beautiful prose, wonderful ideas – and forget all about the reader. There is no point writing, unless someone is going to read it. They are not going to read it if you don’t write what you really mean to say.

  • My Viking Belt Buckle
    Okay, I realised that you’d like to see my Viking Belt Buckle. It’s made out of aluminium armature wire that sculptors use, and the snakes’ heads are made out of the ever-wonderful Milliput If you don’t know about Milliput, I’d say it was almost more useful that Duct Tape. I use it all the time to fix and make all sorts of things and no, I’m not on commission.