• January memes

    13 January 2023

    What's that I hear everyone shouting???

    "Memes!! Memes for the weekend!!!!"

    OK, OK -- your demand is my command!!!!! :-) :-) :-)

    In the order presented we have...

    The new guy on the job looks...

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  • Cirque Du Kane!

    12 January 2023

    The Cirque Du Freak movie pops up on all sorts of Best Of and Worst Of lists, and I'm always happy to share the links when that happens, whether the compilers are sympathetic to the movie or...

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  • A nice global spread

    11 January 2023

    I replied to some fan mail today, and in the order I went through them, the letters came from... Sweden, the USA, England, Japan, and New Zealand. Now that was a fairly cool geographical sweep,...

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  • Pontefract and school events

    10 January 2023

    Look at these happy students from The King's School in Pontefract (which is in West Yorkshire, in England). After reading Cirque Du Freak, their teacher encouraged them to write letters to me, and...

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  • Best reads of 2022

    09 January 2023

    So, now that the dust has settled on 2022, here's my reading round-up for the year. (I meant to do this last week, but kept forgetting!)

     

    In total I read 47 books (although I'm still ploughing...

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  • Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo

    08 January 2023

    Over the Christmas holidays, the Shan clan went on a day trip to Dublin, partly to visit Funderland, but mainly to go to Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo. Mrs Shan had wanted to go to this for quite a few...

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