So despite the fact I try not to get involved with politics on the blog, mostly owing to my personal antipathy towards so much of it, I do think this is both interesting and potentially important… http://38degrees.org.uk/ It’s interesting because it has taken the art of submitting internet petitions (which are now recognised by the …
Category Archive: Misc.
Jul
18
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Jul
12
Stuff You Should Know
I didn’t subscribe to podcasts, but then I started finding myself, at the end of a very long day, exhausted, mind turned to so much putty, feeling like I ought to still be writing, or lighting, or researching things pertinent to both, and by chance in this process, began listening to podcasts as a medium …
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Jul
10
Watch This Space
Yes, I could be accused of bias. But hell, it can really be quite cool. I mean, sometimes rubbish. But mostly awesome. And it’s free. Did I mention it’s free? You suffer nothing, therefore, by checking this out…. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/wts
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May
11
Holiday
Holiday! Holiday holiday holiday! God I haven’t had a holiday in far too long. The last holiday I had, in fact, was over two years ago… It’s not just a going-away holiday, it’s a not-working holiday. I haven’t not-worked for far, far too long. And now, I’m going on holiday! In fact, by the time …
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May
09
Calling in at OrbitBooks.net
I had lunch with an editor recently, and to my great regret, I entirely failed to starve myself for three days in advance and order champagne. (This is something of an authorial tradition – the noble art of conniving the most expensive meal you possibly can from your publisher lives on.) Instead, we had Thai …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.kategriffin.net/2011/05/09/calling-in-at-orbitbooks-net/
May
06
Paper Telephone
How I have limped through life without playing this game, I do not know. It’s based essentially on Chinese whispers. One person – let’s say, Sleepy – gets a strip of paper and writes at the top a motto, such as the Seven Dwarves. Sleepy then passes the paper to Happy, who has to draw …
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Apr
26
Alternative Voting
I have no idea which way to vote on this. I’ve got the pamphlets through my door, which I fully intend to read, but naturally the pamphleteers are horribly biased towards their own sides and so I remain confused. And this seems to be the problem on the whole alternative vote thing – people just …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.kategriffin.net/2011/04/26/alternative-voting/
Apr
24
Adventures in the Small Hours
Remember the other job I do? The one when not writing… So, yes, that other job, the days spent hanging off perches, clinging to a follow spot, lighting stuff. We’re slowly shuffling towards the end of a run – in fact, my last day is on Thursday – after which I return fully to the …
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Apr
07
A Very Polite Demo
I’ve never been on a demo before, but I felt angry enough about this to attend, so went to my local council’s anti-cuts protest. And I will not engage in a political or economic argument here about the nature of the cuts and how to govern the country, as neither I, nor the people at …
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Mar
31
My Bourgeois Basil Plant
I love my bourgeois basil plant. And am rightly ashamed. How did this happen? When I was young, I wanted to be a doctor (this was before my astronaut phase) and believed that it was perfectly possible, if not desirable, to live out of a tent and bucket, and scoffed when my Mum insisted on …
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