You know how, sometimes, something keeps cropping up? (Or, as a psychologist might put it, you know how, sometimes, there’s the Baader-Meinhof effect?)
Well, at the Writing Britain exhibition at the British Library yesterday, I listened to a recording of Ciaran Carson reading his poem ‘Belfast Confetti’. I hadn’t come across it before, and I thought it [...]
Visiting The Udderbelly with Ned last week reminded me of this post, first published in May 2009…. three years. Wow. Time flies when you’re having.. um.. a cancer.
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Last night, Ned and I went to a Comedy Store Live gig at Udderbelly. (Which, in case you are wondering, is a temporary venue in the form of [...]
I’ve had one of those weeks… you know, the ones people talk about? The ones where everything just seems to go well? Yup, those weeks. Behold the evidence:
1. I went through the copy-edited manuscript for Thrive, and it needed hardly any changes. (That sentence shows very well why a copy editor is a girl’s best [...]