Suze's Witterings

So I've spent the last month participating in Campnanowrimo.  The premise is simple: you set a target and write.  The default target fo...

Avoid the Passive Voice with Zombies Useful resource, trying to work out where to save this in order to refer back to it.  Where else?  Bl...

A steampunk adventure in 31 days...

I have just completed a re-read of Game of Thrones. Series 3 has recently been broadcast in the UK, we don't have cable or satellite (a...

Having found some pictures of my previous mini and admiring how shiny it looked, here's a scan - having messed around with the Picassa ...

Come, don't hurry or harry, for hurray, it's Curry night! Karma is yours, in creamy Korma But first the pappadums, prickly pickles a...

I was surprised when looking back through last years' posts that there were only just over ten, I thought I'd been more regular in m...

So I've just finished the fifth book of George RR Martin's "Game of Thrones". There are now so many different viewpoints t...

I've been learning to crochet. Inspiration struck when I bought Mr S a Star Wars craft book. Among the patchwork quilt made from Star W...

I've just finished this. It was an impulse buy from the Amazon Kindle Store. Good but not great. One you want to continue to read to ge...

This was a Christmas present (thanks R!) but it's taken a while to sit down and read it. Overall, I would say it was worth waiting for....

This is the first of Val McDermid's books which I have read. A few years ago we watched the Wire in the Blood series and grew to like i...

So I have just finished Skagboys by Irvine Welsh. It's a precursor, I'm not sure I'd call it a prequel, to Trainspotting. I ha...

Tuesday was a rainy day so an ideal day for hiding indoors, reading and playing on the Wii. I recently downloaded Irvine Welsh's "...

I mentioned in my earlier post that the tide goes out a long way to reveal rocks to clamber, pools to splash in and seaweed to soften your f...

So here we are in Watchett on the North Somerset coast. After a very busy Friday helping out at the school Jubilee celebrations and packing...

Since October, I have studying with the Open university, the Arts Past and Present (aka AA100). Yesterday saw the submission of my final ass...

So, this weekend saw us take a trip to the British Museum. This was to tie in with a trip which my OU tutor had organised to see the Benin ...

This evening while getting read for bed, Pip asked "when will it end?" I replied: "Tuesday." Pip: "Tuesday....

According to Paul Muldoon in the Faber Book of Beasts, anthologists tend towards the despotic. As part of the section on poetry in the AA10...