K.C.Warwick

After about ten attempts, I finally managed to put together my post for 'Carrying The Torch' tomorrow. Why is it than when I try to follow simple instructions, they never work out as they should? Anyway, I've done it and scheduled it to post tomorrow morning at 6.00 GMT, which should give me time to panic if something awful goes wrong with it. Actually, I think Wordpress is probably easier to use than Livejornal, when you know how. There's possibly some way of cross-posting to LJ as I'm sure I've seen Wordpress things on my friends page. When I've got time, I'll look into it.

The Torch relay of GLBTQ writers starts today here . I'll be doing my bit on Friday -  assuming that I don't have my usual disaster with technology! Must have a practice first!

Parsley now has a little sister -well, she's rapidly growing bigger than he is. Hetty is a twelve week old resued lurcher puppy. As you can see, they get on very well.

I'm enjoying listening to 'In and Out of the Kitchen' on BBC Radio 4 Extra at the moment. This is a comedy about a cookery writer and his partner, who are having their kitchen remodelled (amongst other things.). The great thing about it is that no fuss is made about the fact they are gay. It's just a comedy about two people - and it has recipes in it too.

Many years ago, I was listening to 'Down Your Way' on BBC Radio 4 - for the youngsters amongst you, this was a programme which visted various places around the country, interviewed the fairly-ordinary people who lived and worked there, and invited them to choose a piece of music. This particular edition was special in that it came from the QE2, and they interviewed members of the crew.I can't remember the exact details but it went roughly as follows. The radio operator talked about his job and how long he had been doing it, then told the story of how the ship had been out in the mid-Atlantic when they were very surprised to receive an S.O.S. call in morse code, signed with their own ship identification code. Obviously, they hadn't put out the distress call, and they couldn't identify any other ship that could have sent it. It turned out that the Titanic had originally been identified by that code, and the explanation they came up with was that they were somehow receiving a signal put out by the doomed vessel about sixty years previously. There was no suggestion of the paranormal: the chap thought that the call had been bouncing about in space and somehow came back to them. Strange, though...

Lost my beautiful lurcher, Molly, yesterday. She was fourteen years old and I had her as a rescue when she was eight weeks old. She was the sweetest natured dog I've ever had - look at the way she put up with Parsley. We both miss her.

This is one of my favourite poems and, as it is about love and it's St. Valentine's day, I'm going to post it. It's by A.E.Housman. If you don't already know his poetry then go and read it - but have a hanky ready! He had rather a sad life, I always feel, because he was in love with his best friend but never said anything to him.

It is no gift I tender,

  A loan is all I can;

But do not scorn the lender;

  Man gets no more from man.

Oh, mortal man may borrow

  What mortal man can lend;

And 'twill not end to-morrow,

  Though sure enough 'twill end.

If death and time are stronger,

  A love may yet be strong;

The world will last for longer,

  But this will last for long.

I've been watching this on DVD and I was extremely disappointed in it. They kept the names of the characters and that was about all, otherwise it was a completely different story. In fact, it was more like fanfiction than anything else - bad fanfiction. Eustace was good, and they did at least keep in Aslan's speech at the end when he tells Lucy and Edmund that they must learn to know him in thier own world, but because everything else had been altered, this seemed very odd. I didn't like 'Prince Caspian' very much because they had tried to make it as much like 'Lord of the Rings' as they could, but this was a thousand times worse. Thank goodness they don't think they've got the money to ruin film any more of the books.

I've just found out that 'Prove A Villain' got an Honourable Mention in The Rainbow Awards 2011. It really cheered my day up - even a month or so later! Obviously my Google alerts aren't working!

Some kind person has made me a proper Goodreads page with a link to my LJ and everything. I've only just found it because I've been in hospital (not for anything major but it still took a while to get over it!). I think I can guess who did it, so thank you, that person. I'll try and put up a photo of something to finish it off. And I really must try to get my act together to get the first two of the Rowan and Valiance series available again.