Great Moments In Retailing: PC World, St Andrew’s Quay, Hull

Windows 7 for idiots. Windows 7 for REAL idiots.

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Adventures In Trash: “The Land of Painted Caves” by Jean Auel

Earth’s Children Six Not Very Good: Earth Still Not Flat Before I bought “The Land of Painted Caves”, I had a quick look at the Amazon reviews first. Why I did this, I can’t say. After slogging through the first five instalments, there was never any doubt that I was going to buy this one [...]

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Great Moments In Retailing: The Baking Aisle, Sainsbury’s, Hessle

And they said making cheap smutty jokes would never get anyone a job in the real world.

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Adventures in Trash: “The Atheist’s Daughter” by Renee Harrell

In Which Self-Publishing Comes Of Age It’s past September 14th, hooray! That means I can post my review of “The Atheist’s Daughter” – the book I’ve fallen madly in love with in the last couple of weeks, and which I got a sneak preview of so I could review it, and which has just – [...]

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Published Work: Draft cover for “New World Fairy Tales”

So the thing is, when I originally wrote New World Fairy Tales, they were written as presents for friends and family, and for the sheer pleasure of writing them. Although I entered them into the Scott Prize, it was a big surprise to me when I made the shortlist. And until the moment when they [...]

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Great Moments In Retailing: Phone booth advertising in York

…and the last 6% we just culled.

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Adventures In Trash: “Perfect World” by A J Kirby

Before I Mortally Offend A Mate, I Feel I Should Begin By Defining What I Mean By “Trash” So, here’s why I call my reviews “Adventures in Trash”. For the purposes of this blog, I like to focus on Genre fiction. I’m not actually implying I think these books are trash (although when I review [...]

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Stupidly Easy Recipes: Catsbum Chocolate Pudding

A Pudding With A Health Warning Let’s begin with the circumstances in which you should not make this pudding. Firstly, do not make it for any occasion when looks are important. It is delicious; it is chocolatey; it will make your guests’ eyes roll back in their head a little bit when they eat it. [...]

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Great Moments In Retailing: Mysterious Android Fail

So I think I just caught Microsoft out in a sneaky childish “La, la, la, can’t hear you, not listening” moment with Android. This is Microsoft’s latest effort to convince me that I really, really, really want to give some more money to Bill Gates. If I look at it on my computer, using a [...]

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