Posted in Society, language, life, writers, writing, tagged exit, Exit Pursued by a Bee, names, Nelder on March 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Geoff Nelder
I laughed the other day because I received a request from a baby naming site to link with my writing one. Initially, I thought this was a curious variation of a Nigerian bank scam, but once my stomach subsided I realized there was some sense here.
When I started writing fiction, characters’ names appeared [...]
Posted in Alex Draven, Britain, Society, events, life on October 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is one of my favourite times of year, and I’m posting today, talking about Whitby.
What do I mean, Whitby?
Whitby.
1) A small seaside town and fishing port on the north east coast of Yorkshire, famous for it’s jet.
2) An important medieval abbey. See also St Hilda (Abbess)
3) “a gathering of as many goths [...]
Posted in Austen, Erastes, Society, TV, tagged Austen, lost in austen, TV on September 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Last night I watched Lost in Austen, which I enjoyed, although it surprised me that I did. It’s fairly obviously a clever twist on the Life on Mars idea, someone thrown into an environment that they weren’t expecting.
Basically if you didn’t see it (and there’s bound to be a repeat, [...]
Posted in Alex Draven, Britain, Society on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My fellow britwriters have covered many of the essential signs of a British summer already – Wimbledon, the seaside, steam fairs, celebrating the solstice, rain – but I have one more to add to the collage – village and church fetes!
These are community-run fund-raising days, and a chance for everyone to get together [...]
Posted in Britain, Fuel Prices, Marc Nobbs, People of Britain, Society, life on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve had this sent to me the other week by e-mail – I’ll let you read it before I comment.
We are hitting £108.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.10 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:
This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the ‘don’t buy petrol on [...]
Posted in Britain, Marc Nobbs, People of Britain, Society, life, tagged Britian, carol kirkwood, Marc Nobbs, sun, weather on June 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »
We Brits have a strange relationship with the weather. Some would even call it intimate. We are obsessed by it. It occupies our thoughts daily. The weather forecasts on TV are among the most watched of programmes. When we have nothing to talk about, we talk about the weather. When we do have something to [...]
Posted in Britain, Society, gardening on May 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I spent all day yesterday at Chelsea. That’s flowers, not football. Here’s one of the winning gardens, this one sponsored by the Daily Telegraph.
Chelsea is a notable element of the annual British social calendar. The Queen always goes on the first day, and various celebrities who have probably never so [...]
