The new school year beckons, which means, among other things, I probably won't be quite as active on the site as I have been over the summer. So, I thought I'd put together a post of some of my favourite hopeful images of the last few weeks. The common thread that ties these disparate pics together? The gaze at the camera and the subsequent catch...
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About ten years ago, I started running an RPG group at the school where I teach. It was a natural offshoot of the sci-fi and fantasy club I was running at the time and, eventually, came to outgrow, overshadow and finally replace its parent club. In the six or seven years I ran it, there were probably about twenty-five kids involved to a greater or...
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... what would it say?
Hmmm...
"WARNING: INVETERATE WAFFLER. DO NOT ENGAGE IF IN A HURRY."
Well, I do like words.
I used to waffle terribly, but I think I might be a bit better now. I listen a bit more than I used to, but, if you get me onto a topic I'm excited about (Doctor Who or comics will do it; the...
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In which your favourite purveyor of unrestrained verbosity waxes lyrical about three recent SG pics that have rather caught his eye...
@myca is awesome. Incredibly pretty, wonderfully curvy and beautifully decorated, her recent set Yuki No Hana features her eating breakfast. Pictures of me eating breakfast would be nowhere near as compelling, unless you are particularly interested in splash patterns. (I am, I hate to...
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The problem with going on holiday is that you have so much to catch up on. I've said before how overwhelming this site can be. Even an obsessive like me can be blown away by the sheer quality of SG and Hopeful sets and that has certainly been the case the last couple of weeks. We have been blessed with some simply stunning SG sets...
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Yes, it's a holiday blog post! A friend of mine recently pointed out that, back in the day, we used to invite people round to our houses to show them our holiday snaps, often in the form of slides projected onto blank screens. (Most of my Dad's snaps from the 70s are in slide form. I've not seen any of them since 1985.) Now, we...
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