• I’m feeling pretty pleased with myself. I’ve managed to set up an Apache server, PHP and and MySql database locally on my computer and I’ve also managed to get my old blog up and running on it. I must be mad but I’m going to work my way through, copying and pasting, to restore my blog back from February 2007. I’m not going let those nasty little hackers get me down.

  • I went to the dentist this morning. I’ve been going to see Andrew fro about eighteen years now. He is brilliant – very gentle and understanding. He’s quite often got the needle in and out before I realised what was happening.

    Something went a bit strange with my filling this morning. As Andrew put the anaesthetic in, I felt something wierd trickle down the back of my throat. I had a little rinse, lay back in the chair and felt as though A band had been placed across my throat and it was beginning to tighten. Standing up and walking around, I felt a bit dizzy and felt myself begin to panic. I sat down and breathed slowly, trying to calm down. Then I felt I was going to be sick. Luckily I wasn’t.

    Five minutes later I felt okay, but didn’t feel the anaesthetic had numbed the tooth, so Andrew put in another injection. This one worked – back at home my tongue has never felt so swollen.

    It’s not easy being a wimp, y’know?

  • I woke up this morning and realised that I had only a few days to get my newly published titles registered for this year’s PLR. That’s the Public lending right that pays me a tiny amount of money for every book that gets borrowed from libraries. Luckily my books get borrowed a lot, so it soon adds up to a very welcome sum of money that I immediately hand over to the tax man as I get paid about the same day as I have to pay tax. I remember my Dad always used to complain about his pay rises in the army. The day his pay went up, so did the rents and mess bills!

    Any way I collected up the titles to be registered and what a shock – 49 new titles this year! Most of these are reissues of old titles and titles doubled up as hardback and paperback, but it’s still a lot.