Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries, Chapter Eight

I Swear I Will Finish This Even If It Kills Me And Brings About The Ending Of The Known Universe Apparently, Tuesday is officially the most depressing day of the week. It’s too far from last weekend for us to still be happily reminiscing about the fun we had. It’s too far from next weekend [...]

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Hooray For Hollywood: Noel Fielding’s Real Parents

plus equals Strange but true.

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Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries by L J Smith, Chapter 7

In Which Everyone Gets Angry About The Wrong Things I’m starting to wonder if the problem here is that I’m way, waaay too old for this shit. I mean, rationally, of course I’m too old for it, since this is a Young Adult book, and I’m about two decades past young-adulthood. But maybe it’s deeper [...]

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Great Moments In Retailing: The Trago Mills Series

I don’t blame them.

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Adventures in Trash: “Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death” by M C Beaton

Miss Marple Was Never This Terrifying Over the course of fourteen years in Marketing, I worked with a lot of PR executives, from really quite a lot of companies. They came in two basic varieties: young girls who intimidated me by being prettier, slimmer, better-dressed and posher than me; and older women who intimidated me [...]

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Great Moments In Retailing: Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Sheffield

Surprisingly, as it turns out, they’re not too keen on you photographing them either.

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Great Moments In Retailing: Langlands Garden Centre, Shiptonthorpe

You know how sometimes you’re walking through a garden centre and you see a garden ornament in the shape of, for example, a Meerkat dressed in a Fireman’s coat and helmet? And you stop and look at it for a minute, and wonder what on earth would make anyone buy it? And then you decide [...]

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Published Work: Hey, look, I made the papers!

Here I am in the Hull Daily Mail, talking about “New World Fairy Tales” and generally attempting to pass for human. If I sound a little bit like I’m writing rather than talking, that would be because I was writing rather than talking (the interview was by email). Hopefully I don’t sound like too much [...]

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Great Moments In Retailing: Freezer Aisle, Sainsbury’s, Hessle

And people say the British are uptight and repressed and have absolutely no sense of humour.

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Adventures In Trash: “The Vampire Diaries” by L J Smith (Chapter Six)

Warning: This Is NOT How Boys Work I was originally planning to get The Vampire Diaries out of the way in one gigantic, OMGwhyamIevendoingthis gulp. Then I got started, and realised my review was getting so enormously long that I was going to have to it in chunks. Okay, I thought. Five chapters at a [...]

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