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Never tell anyone your dreams
We’re having a pint together in the pub, sitting at an old wooden table at the back of the room next to a fly-specked poster advertising a gig featuring a pop group from the eighties. There’s only one other patron in the place. He leans sideways against the wall, his grey hair pressed against a…
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Vanes to Increase the Effectiveness of Horizontal Wind Turbines
In the spirit of giving away ideas that might make a difference, I’ve written this wind turbines post to bang on about an idea I had years ago. I’ve searched the internet over the last few days and I haven’t found anyone else who’s had the same idea. Either that means it’s a terrible concept…
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Here be Dragons: 5 Best Dragons in Literature
On the whole, you wouldn’t want to bump into a dragon down a dark alley or in a cave or… pretty much anywhere actually. Books are where you can meet a dragon from the safety of your armchair. The books in this post are my favourites.
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Generosity
A couple of weekends ago I went to the BMFA Power Nationals. The “Nats”, as we cognoscenti call it, is the premier event in the UK for powered model planes (oh, and helicopters *raspberry*). It takes place over the August bank holiday weekend, it’s held on an RAF airfield near Grantham and attracts people from…
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New Release: The Persistence of Poison
‘When are you going to release your next book?’ I get asked that a lot. Well, I’m pleased – no, delighted! – to announce the release of a new book in the Hollow series. It’s a prequel that tells the story of how Vester, a human and one of the main antagonists in book one…
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Show not Tell Thursday
I’ve been using Scrivener for a couple of years now. For those who don’t know what Scrivener is, it’s software for writing books and it comes from a company called Literature and Latte. It’s a popular piece of software used by many writers around the world. I won’t sing Scrivener’s praises too much, suffice to…
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