“I don’t know what this round red thing is, but I’m sure it needs killing. Give me a minute…” — Summer

My first ball


“Someone told me I should endeavour to look cute, but I can only do ‘shy’.” — Summer

I’m hiding


“Yay!  I’m not sure what all this green stuff is, but it looks like fun!” — Summer

Green stuff


“I’m a bit busy working on my lunch.  I’ll return your call later.” — Summer

Hello



“Hi world!  I’m Summer, and I’ve just moved in to my ‘forever home’. The hoomon with the hair is my new bestest buddy in the whole world.  He’s going to teach me lots of things and take me for many walkies. Keep reading my posts to learn more about me […]

Hello world!


Thanks to the recent Big Finish sale, I’ve been listening to the first series of Jago & Litefoot over recent evenings.  There have been 10 series of Jago & Litefoot now (each series being a box-set of four adventures, with the 10th due out in October 2015).  Sadly, at £30/£35 […]

Jago & Litefoot, series 1


Acer Iconia W4-820 8.1-inch Tablet (Silver) (Intel Z3740 1.33GHz, 2GB RAM, 32GB Storage, Wi-Fi, BT, Camera, Windows 8) (Personal Computers) I have several mobile devices, including the original iPad and an Android tablet and, while they’re great devices, there are many Windows programmes that I need to use. I used […]

Acer Iconia W4-820


As a writer/budding author, we know how useful Scrivener is for keeping our projects in order and structuring our work.  It’s available for Mac OSX and, in a slightly less feature-rich version, for Windows.  It might even be possible to run it on Linux. The perennial bugbear of Scrivener (and, […]

Scrivener on the road



At first glance, the catchily-named A10JQ would seem to be the ultimate mobile writer’s tool from the past.  In the days when 5″ smartphones were hideously expensive and tablets hadn’t yet become mainstream, the humble little A10JQ came onto the market. Originally called the “Mobile Internet Device”, it was indeed […]

The Writer’s Toolkit, part 3 : A10JQ


Before smartphones were quite so, well, smart, there was the PDA.  The Personal Digital Assistant, often mocked as a digital filofax, was the most pocketable of mobile computing platforms before the advent of Smartphones. Many top manufacturers had their own range.  While HP expanded the Jornada brand, Dell’s range was […]

The Writer’s Toolkit, part 2 : The Age before Smartphones


Before the tablet there was the netbook.  Before the netbook there was the Handheld PC, epitomised as it was by the HP Jornada range. Beginning life as the HP Jornada 680 in 1998, this clamshell portable computer went through a number of slight modifications before its final incarnation, the 728, […]

The Writer’s Toolkit : Yesterday’s Ultimate Mobile Computing


One of the main reasons I haven’t written a lot over the past year is because my free time has been taken up with running. I’m the least likely person to do running, or to take up any form of exercise whatsoever. The only exercise I’ve ever needed has been […]

It’s writing but not as we know it…