Belfast Confetti

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 [...]

Bah! revisited: Help Yourself

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 [...]

Cancer Free Friday: one of those weeks

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 [...]