Inkcap; Gathering Mushrooms


Spore-adic writing in the gloaming

Archive for April, 2010

Third Part of P. O. Box 136

For the benefit of mobile users, who appear to be unable to navigate to individual pages on the mobile version of this site, you can reach it here.

April 30th, 2010
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P. O. Box 136 – Part 2

The second part of the short story P. O. Box 136 is now up here. More to come!

April 22nd, 2010
Topic: Personal Tags: None

Care to Sample? Polling Through Pubs

You’ve noticed there’s an election coming up, right? Thought you might have done. You might be quite excited by it by now, especially if you’ve been following the polls. You might spend you days avidly watching the BBC Live Election Feed, and spend your nights poring over the hoards of leaflets stuffed [...]

April 21st, 2010
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One Week Real Ale Diet – Finale

So, one week on from the start of the One Week Real Ale Diet, and you must all be wondering how it went, eh? Well, both better and worse than expected!
You will be pleased to hear that by day 4 of the diet I had long since passed my target of losing 10lbs, and [...]

April 20th, 2010
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One Week Real Ale Diet – Day One

One day into the One Week Real Ale Diet, and I thought I’d let you know how it’s going so far. Don’t worry, I won’t be doing daily digests (haha!). So; a diet consisting only of nutritionally-sound real ale, black sugarless coffee to ease those mornings, and water for when I don’t want [...]

April 15th, 2010
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New Short Story Starting

The first part of the short story P. O. Box 136 is up, so go and take a look at it! More parts to follow later.
Some problems with the comment forms on pages at the moment, but assume that if you don’t get an error message everything’s gone through okay. I’m also sorting [...]

April 13th, 2010
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The One Week Real Ale Diet

The Problem:
We all know how it goes. You’re just back from your Christmas holiday, Easter break, trip abroad, tour of Italy, and whilst you’re feeling great you’ve spent a week away from those scales, and you get back on them to your horror. In my case, it was a week at home, [...]

April 13th, 2010
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Arts and Craftiness

The real problems began when I started to fry the paint. Not that things were going great before this point, but a little sensible intervention would have set events on a less destructive course. Once the paint-frying started, I’d put too much effort in to turn back. The paint-frying was the fulcrum [...]

April 10th, 2010
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Browser Compatibility

IE 7 users; upgrade! A nice hello to everyone else. Click to read more.

April 8th, 2010
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LyricBlog – Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?

One of the problems one faces when trying to answer all of these questions that can be found in songs, is; does anyone really care about the answer? For so many of the songs, we have no actual reason to answer the question properly. What do we get in return for all this hard work? [...]

April 3rd, 2010
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