Light At The End…

A random collection of thoughts

The Dreams and the Death

...in which Rebecca saves a civilisation while Sebastian blows up a battleship.

Murder! at Etheridge Hall

...in which Mindy sees ghosts, Sebastian meets a shadow, and Rebecca has an accident with a time machine.

The Three Deaths of Piper Gwyn

...in which Sebastian discovers a School for Assassins, Rebecca gets carried away and, oh yes, Piper dies.

The Snowball Effect

...in which a Rebecca walks on the moon, Sebastian makes the wrong kind of friends, and Shena gets more than she bargained for.

Temporal Crashdown

...in which Sebastian crashes, Shena visits a not-so-deserted island, and Rebecca takes on a dinosaur.

Clipped Wings

...in which Sebastian loses his cool, Rebecca loses her powers, and LP10 ends up where it really shouldn't be.

The Abandoned

...in which Nick returns, Mindy discovers her life, and Inspector Brinks has had better days.

The Curupiri Elixir

...in which Nick faces death, Mindy saves the day, Sebastian revisits his past, and Rebecca -- well, that would be telling.

Having read many of the reviews on Amazon, I expected great things from Tremors 5 : Bloodlines. Sadly, it’s best to be described as “another instalment in the Tremors franchise”. It’s always good to watch Michael Gross as Burt Gummer, although he shouldn’t be expected to carry the whole film […]

Tremors 5 : Bloodlines

These Science in Sport Isotonic Gels are ideal as part of my nutrition plan on a long run (over 2 hours). I tend to alternate one of these with one of Science in Sport’s Energy Bars each half-hour on a long run. Several flavours are available including Blackcurrant, Apple, Tropical, Pink […]

SiS Isotonic Gels

Science in Sport do four sizes of their Rego Recovery Shake – sachets, 500g, 1kg, and 1.6kg tubs – in flavours such as vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. After a long run (over 2 hours), Rego Recovery does seem to wake me up a little more than regular water. I’d recommend you prepare your […]

SiS Rego Recovery Shake

Science in Sport do two sizes of their Go Energy Bars – 65g and 40g. The smaller bars are ideal as a quick snack before running, or during a run. They’re a little slower acting than a gel, but they do seem to work. My favourite flavour is “Banana Fudge”, […]

SiS Go Energy Bars

ASUS X205TA 11.6 inch Laptop Notebook (Intel Atom Z3735F 1.33 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8.1 with Free Windows 10 Upgrade) – Blue I bought this primarily for the “up to 12 hours” battery life. So long as you know what you’re buying, the Asus X205TA is a […]

Asus X205TA netbook

It’s been two months since NaNoWriMo, and the words haven’t been forthcoming. It’s time to shake them up a bit and see what they have planned. All of my current stories are in Scrivener and, good though it is to see everything in their appropriate folders and chapters, the series […]

Where are the words?

I can’t believe the capabilities of a tablet this size. I’ve been using various Android/Apple tablets for some time, but they’ve always been a bit of a compromise for me. Although they have plenty of good apps, they’ve always been an additional device and never my main device because all […]

Linx 7 tablet

It’s been a long month, with many things distracting me away from NaNoWriMo, but today, two days early, I’ve achieved what I thought, on many occasions, was the impossible this year. I’ve written 50,000 words. Almost completing “Nick’s Story”, the segment of the currently-named-and-may-be-retitled work-in-progress The Curupiri Elixir, that’s an […]

NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 28

Acer DA1 24 inch Touchscreen All-in-One PC (Nvidia T33 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD, Wi-Fi, Camera, Integrated Graphics, Android 4.1.2) I almost didn’t buy this device because I couldn’t find any reference to “DA1” anywhere either on Acer’s website, or elsewhere except on a couple of mail order catalogue websites […]

Acer DA241HL AIO

Today, with more than a little help from the NaNoWriMo Kent Facebook Group, I doubled my previous word count and sneaked over the 10,000 word line. Whether that means I did good today, or that I just did badly for the last eight days, I’m not so sure. Words have […]

NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 9

The combination of work plus streaming with a cold delayed the start of my NaNoWriMo this year, so much that I wrote nothing for the first two days. On the third day, I had to make a decision. I either got some words down, or I gave up much hope […]

NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 4

Paper is flat, e-readers are flat (almost), but books look best in 3D. Having a book printed up to sit on your shelf is a great moment, surpassed perhaps only by having it taking pride of place on someone else’s shelf. What of that time before the book is complete? […]

Creating Virtual Book Covers