| More on THE BEARS
31 January 08
So what is the story of the prophet Elisha and the Man-eating Bears really about? (see two blogs down)
I found myself in an online chatroom. One man was saying he is delighted that God defends bald men so vigorously.
A woman said that her children made comments about someone being... |
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| The Tree Lady
27 January 08
It's such a pleasure when you find Software that does what you expect it to. I need to lay out the Pirate lads, now known as the Fabulous Phibeas Finn, so that I can work with the illustrator, Vian Oelofsen. To make the book as accessible as possible to reluctant... |
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| Juvenile Delinquents in Bible Times
24 January 08
So I found a great revenge story during my long and tedious proofreading of the Old Testament. Am up to 2 Kings now.
Elisha the prophet was walking along a country road minding his own business when a crowd of nasty youths walked by and shouted 'Go on Baldy-head, Go... |
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| Blackouts
23 January 08
The rest of South Africa has been enduring rolling blackouts as Eskom load sheds.
Here in Mowbray we haven't had a single one.
I like blackouts.
First I can't work at the computer, so I'm forced to find other things to do - like think.
Secondly we get takeouts, so I don't... |
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| Proof reading
20 January 08
So what punishment I am exacting for my pecunial sins! An overloading of Christmas spending, including an impulse Nintendo Wii, has left me financially embarrassed come January.
But strange and mysterious ways have brought me a huge job to do - proofreading the Bible.
Not the words, but the setting.
Do... |
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| How half-arse became Captain
17 January 08
At the end of the second world war a man was rebuilding his bombed house in Paris. He found a handwritten manuscript in the cellar.
It contained the memoir of a French buccaneer, Louis le Golif, known as 'half-arse' due to the effects of a well aimed cannonball.
No one... |
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| Calculating...
14 January 08
So now I know more about pyramids than I ever dreamt I would... If it took 20 years to lay 2 300 000 blocks in the pyramid of Giza, how many did they have to lay in the bottom layer? And how long did the first layer take them... |
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| Bower birds
09 January 08
While we're at it, here's a picture of my front door. I am trying to make a bower bird bower.
The rule is that I can only use things I pick up in the road, are given to me, or I buy at a charity shop. The button walls are... |
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| buttons
06 January 08
I love buttons. It started with my mother's button bottle, an old coffee jar, filled to the top with buttons from the forties and fifties. Then my husband's aunt gave me a tin of buttons belonging to his grandmother. She was wealthy, and her buttons were very grand and sparkly... |
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| Downloads
03 January 08
Luke woke me up at the crack of dawn on Sunday cackling in my ear, 'You're in the Sunday Times.'
Oh God, I thought, they have discovered something horrible....
But no, my very on the ball publishers of the values series, Lux Verbi, had advertised my two newest books as available... |
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