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Have had some bad connection luck over the last few days — hard to predict reliable internet service when one is on the road — but I’ve a quick ten minutes here to describe my time in Orkney. As if… In the last two days I’ve been from Inverness through John O’Groats, onto an enormousContinue reading “Orkney…”

Sitting here in the lovely Moo Cafe in the New Town part of Edinburgh, having sent my daughter off on the train to visit a friend, and walked my feet to the bone around the City today. The walking has pretty much characterized the whole trip so far, which is a good thing, since I’veContinue reading “Hi Yeh….”

…to bring you a couple of writing contest reminders.     First — Surrey International Writing Contest. Due Date: Sept 10th. Four categories, four chances to win $1000 plus publication. Numbers are a bit down this year, which means your chances are Up, Up, UP! Details HERE. Do it!   Second — this is aContinue reading “We Interrupt this Odyssey…”

Back in London…and it’s lovely, of course. [This is a shot of the moon through the window of the plane, somewhere over the clouds of northeastern Canada.]       Yesterday was a bit of a blur, as it was our first day here, but we did manage to sneak in a decent walk aroundContinue reading “UK Odyssey 2010”

…a quick follow-up to the last post. I live-tweeted the wonderful event on Saturday [under blissfully blue skies] and will re-post some of the pix below. Susan Musgrave opened things up on the Main Stage, and we were off.   Here are some shots from the Children’s Stage. I got a chance to host aContinue reading “Summer Dreams Redux…”

Holy Crow…what has happened to the summer? Things have been nuts around here, and will continue so for some time, I think. Running around getting ready to head to the UK — mostly Scotland, but a bit of London [and who doesn’t love a bit of London?] next week, but before I go… It’s timeContinue reading “Summer Dreams…”

A few things that have caught my fancy this week…       First — Elizabeth Renzetti’s marvellous G&M article about one of my writing heroes — PD James, who has just turned 90. [the pic is by Randy Quan for the Globe].         Next, via boingboing, here’s a look at theContinue reading “Dog Days Arcana”

…what else is new?   This time, I’ve spent two full days labouring over visa requirements for my girl, who will be spending a year in the UK, furthering her studies of Consumption of British Beer. [The things you can write when your children don’t follow your blog…!] Actually, she’ll be studying at the UniContinue reading “Behind…”

…tomorrow? [picture courtesy of NASA via Discovery Channel]   Interesting little sunburst yesterday means the Earth will be flooded with magnetic radiation tomorrow. Essentially, due to some smalll internal digestions problem, [summer guacamole left out too long?] the sun shot out what is known as a CME — a Coronal Mass Ejection, aimed right atContinue reading “Guess What’s Dropping in…”

Check this out… [via Infocult] This is but one example of the amazing work of photo-manipulation by Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov. He blends past and present into a lovely ghostly compositions that travel effortlessly across the years.  Wired calls this computational rephotography. I just call it cool. Check further examples out on Larenkov’s LJ pageContinue reading “Visual Time Travel”