Mock Ducktag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13031682008-10-13T19:16:51+01:00TypePadNew Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:post-569259132008-10-13T19:16:51+01:002008-10-13T19:16:51+01:00I've been messing around with a new blog. For a sneak preview go here. I still have a lot to do to it and need to add my links etc but just to warn that I may start updating the...MockduckThe Long and the Short of it: part twotag:typepad.com,2003:post-568465492008-10-11T13:34:11+01:002008-10-11T13:34:11+01:00Remember my two-sided umbrella invention - to enable a tall person and a short person to share an umbrella in the rain? Well I've come up with another one. The Geek is a good foot taller than me. (With the...MockduckI'm Enjoying...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-567056072008-10-08T12:33:29+01:002008-10-08T12:33:29+01:00Watching: The Flight of the Concordes, US presidential debates The former is the only thing I have ever booked to see in the Edinburgh Fringe and promptly lost the tickets for so I've never seen them live. If anyone hasn't...MockduckJust to remind...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-547632662008-09-14T14:47:05+01:002008-09-14T14:47:05+01:00...I'm still alive. I can't believe how hectic the last few weeks have been. And they continue hectic - I've been working all day, out for a punching session in the park (I must write about this sometime - it's...MockduckEdinburgh Fringe: First Bloodtag:typepad.com,2003:post-537205302008-08-04T10:46:54+01:002008-08-04T10:46:54+01:00Well it's here. The Edinburgh Fringe. The Edinburgh Festival, the book festival, the politics festival are round the corner. The Jazz Festival already been and gone. But through it all - the Fringe. Massive, unprogrammed. Thousands of shows. A monster....MockduckRain, covers for girls and books for boystag:typepad.com,2003:post-536050802008-08-03T19:35:50+01:002008-08-03T19:35:50+01:00Sorry, I've been monumentally lazy and haven't posted for ages. So much has been raging on the net too - debate about whether thrillers should be included on the Booker list, people up in arms about book covers - whether...MockduckMeme and none but memetag:typepad.com,2003:post-528196362008-07-17T14:54:54+01:002008-07-17T14:54:54+01:00Charlotte the Duckling (the other one) meme-ed me. If there is such a verb. But I decided to do something a bit different as the meme was a bit boring all about past jobs and whatnot. Which is likely to...MockduckA Good Daytag:typepad.com,2003:post-520139342008-06-29T00:59:32+01:002008-06-29T00:59:32+01:00Mockduck5 Things to Cheer Me Uptag:typepad.com,2003:post-516312962008-06-20T13:44:40+01:002008-06-20T13:44:40+01:00I'm having a bad day with various things going wrong and not feeling too well. Decided I really need to cheer myself up and if anyone wants to join in that would be nice. Add five things that cheer you...MockduckJust to explaintag:typepad.com,2003:post-516290042008-06-20T12:04:16+01:002008-06-20T12:04:16+01:00Just to explain about the article underneath. It was originally posted in The Book Bar - Jess Ruston's literary blog quite a while ago. But, sadly, The Book Bar is no more (hopefully to be replaced with something just as...Mockduck