My Internet connection has been playing up – I have not been able to connect at all for over a day. Now it is operating again, but extremely slow. Very frustrating and perhaps it is time for a general clean-up and other “computer maintenance” which also takes up a lot of time. There were less [...]
Read a very touching story on “Women’s Memoirs”. The story also gave a recipe for the scones described in the story “KitchenScraps: Mum’s Legendary Scones by Mairi Neil”. You can read the story and the recipe here. I decided try the recipe and found it easy to make, easier than using butter anyhow (this new [...]
While this blog is meant to highlight how to write for pleasure, there is no sin in trying to make some money as well. Both Jake and I make our living as technical writers, and we write for pleasure mainly to stay sane – it is a great way to relax. We can therefore agree [...]
I am pleased to see that the blog statistics show an increasing number of visitors, and that is good news indeed. Most of the later posts has been written by me, the admin, and the topics have not had much with “writing for pleasure” to do – but anything is good if it increases the number of [...]
I have received a very kind email from Robert Earle Howells ( http://www.surefirewriting.com) and that pleased me very much. In his mail he stated “…I’m all for ANY type of writing that brings in income, so long as it’s not morally or ethically offensive.” and this got ME thinking. “Ethically offensive” I agree with, and I would [...]
Came across a very interesting article thanks to a “twitter friend” (@reliability) regarding the usefulness of hemp. A quote from the article explain “”The question is why we in Africa have continued to allow a hypocritical, unworkable and expensive prohibition against recreational use of this plant, to continue denying us all of its other benefits?” [...]
The lunar New Year celebration is ongoing and it have reminded me on how the Chinese astrology almost put an end to my marriage before it even had a chance to start. My little wifey is born in the year of the Tiger, and I am borne in the year of the “Chicken”. Of course that raised [...]
On a recent trip I was approached by a young man who – seeing my white hair – decided that I was a prime prospect for buying his “genuine” Viagra tablets. I did say a polite no, but that didn’t stop him, and when I got tired of his persistent sales pitch I told him [...]
Jake has had an opportunity to study how British tourists can behave when in Thailand – and it was very disturbing. At the resort where he is living the owner had some problems with a couple of young girls who had a very bad attitude. Jake had listened to what was said and the owner, a [...]