I know I haven’t been updating much lately. Forgive me peeps - I’ve been a bit too busy living life at the moment to write about it. There’s oodles going on, swirling round in my head right now, but I’m afraid it’s the kind of swirly-stuff I have to deal with/live through before I’ll be [...]

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So why a Roast on Monday instead of the, by now, Sunday? Because yesterday the CCM descended upon Southampton for a flying visit and whisked me off to Southsea for the day. We had a lovely time walking the Front, going round the Aquarium and eating food in the smallest cafe I’ve been in in [...]

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It’s not often you can say you’re reading a book because of a conversation you had with your brother over Christmas about how you would survive the Zombie Apocalypse. (If you’re curious, we decided that for long term survival a katana would be the weapon of choice). I was making the argument that why would [...]

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So another week has ended, thank the dear and fluffy lord. Not that there has been anything exactly with the weeks lately, but I will be glad when January is over, as it is dragging so. You might have caught onto the fact that I’ve been voiceless lately. Well, I went see the specialist on [...]

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Ok, Birthday Fairycakes really, but the other has such a nice alliterative feel to it.
I’m following the course of action that suggests a way to a mans heart is through his stomach. If the EDLO’s reaction to the cakes is any way to judge, he’s halfway to proposing marriage already, but then are so are [...]

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Not having a voice, even temporarily, is a very strange and eye opening experience. We take our voices for granted and not just for speech. We make countless vocalisations throughout our days to communicate with other people.
From something as simple as an “uh-huh” to show you’re listening to a friend whilst she shares the latest [...]

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I write this Roast whilst feeling grumpy. I’ve been feeling grumpy ever since evil ultrasound technicians took a look at my ovaries last week and told me they didn’t like what they could (and slightly more worrying couldn’t) see. Tomorrow is the joyous prospect of an evil ENT specialist taking a look at my throat [...]

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Part of the whole “get a job in publishing” plan for 2008 is going to entail moving to a new city because, nice though it is, Southampton is seemingly devoid of decent publishing establishments - go figure. Now, scary “I’m not going to know anyone” relocation issues aside, this is really rather an exciting prospect. [...]

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Oooh, the first Sunday Roast of 2008. Exciting! Well, if you’re me it is. I’m just hoping that y’all will enjoy it. It’s been long enough since I last wrote a roast that it feels really rather weird to be sitting here staring at the blank blue screen of WriteRoom once more. Plus I’ve flipped [...]

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You probably need to have been living in a cave for the past few months (or just blissfully uncaring about advances in digital technology) to not have realised that Amazon has released it’s Kindle book reader.
Enough people have shared their opinions on the matter (a select few links are at the bottom of the post) [...]

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