Halloween: a Pumpkin That Has Gone Missing
What are you planning for this Halloween? Getting sloshed and drown in the vomit? How devious of you. Maybe you’ve been planning autodafe of vegetable puppets and grilling marshmallows on the open fire...
View ArticleWriting and NaNoWriMo. The London Kick-Off Party
National November Writing Month is about to start. Are you participating this year? Not decided yet? It’s still not too late to register and start writing and complete your 50,000 words novel in one...
View ArticleBadger: Killing, Culling, Curing. Britain, Choose Your Side!
To cull or not to cull? If you live outside the United Kingdom you many not know this , but the question above has been tearing the nation apart for the last several months if not years. Culling is a...
View ArticleCacti: Pioneers of Plants. Learning from Nature
I have a primal (if not primitive) quality I share with some curious animals. Did you ever see squirrels hiding nuts and magpies stealing sparkling things like watches or rings? I believe it may be a...
View ArticleHow My NaNoWriMo Was Hijacked …
November turned out to be a busy month for me: I had a lot of experiments at work, had to prepare a mini-course on immunology for Imperial College students. I’m an impulsive person. All my life I tried...
View ArticleTheme – a Blurred Line between Grand Literature and the Firewood Material
To me, books are not worth reading just for entertainment purposes. I want to learn something about the world and about myself, I want to be provoked into thinking about important issues. Reading is a...
View ArticleFilm of the Week: Stoker. India’s Story of Death, Love and Insanity
Stoker is a Hollywood debut of the renowned Korean director of Oldboy Chan-wook Park influenced by a Hitchock’s Shadow of a Doubt. It’s a noir, a psychological thriller, yet a quiet meditative one,...
View ArticleMy Undercover Soundtrack
This week Roz Morris is hosting me at her The Undercover Soundtrack blog: I’m talking about how music influence my writing. Roz is a long-time professional writer, editor, online persona, who have...
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