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A fun afternoon in the pub yesterday with lots of lovely chums, many of whom brought presents or at least bought pints. It’s just possible t...

The not exactly new but current issue of SFX (#171, July 2008, The X-Files on the cover) includes a three page feature by Jonathan Wright ...

Just back from a short gad around Cornwall on the occasion of my birthday. Trained down to Plymouth, picked up a hire car like we did three ...

I don’t normally do this sort of thing but two chums have recently tagged me with memes. Paul Cornell says I must obey the following, so lo...

I must have read Diamonds Are Forever when I was about 11 or 12. Reading it again, the only bit I remembered was James Bond meeting up with...

An exciting surprise delivery this morning: a box-set of "Ten bestselling novels based on the TV series" - including my own badger...

I’ve never been especially squeamish. A trip to an abattoir only made me hungry and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre leaves me cold. In fact, a ...

The Dr has something of the night about her. In fact, we met at a goth dinner party where I was in a black velvet suit and she was vamped ou...

So says Ken Dowden on page 65 of his book “The Uses of Greek Mythology” , which I finished today. His point is that accounts of the battle o...

It’s been a busy couple of weeks writing, re-writing and researching, but all the things that needed signing off now have been and some of t...

"Living your life is a long and doggy business, says Mrs Lupey. And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some ...

The sister is back from Oz for six months and we had a summons back to the ancestral home of the Guerrier clan yesterday. It should only tak...

“On paper, it may have looked as though Wildcat was a no-brainer – sci-fi thrills for the junior audience – but in fact it was a decidedly ...

To mark five years of his own blog, the noble and gallant Duke, Lord James Moran has posted a whole bundle of things he's learnt as a wr...

Scott pointed me in the direction of a new pic from NASA: sunset on Mars . Cor. I'd assumed at first glance it was a new one from Phoen...

Slowly and slowly things I've been doing can be talked of. The new issue of Doctor Who's Magazine contains word of some things of m...

100 years and five days ago, Ian Fleming was born in London. The man who’d later create James Bond and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was two days ...

Have been feverishly meeting a deadline the last couple of days. But on Thursday I was also required to do acting, at the lavish showbiz lau...

A wrong number just called, insisting I spoke to her earlier today. (This was itself a clue. The only person I've spoken to all day is t...

As Paul Cornell might say, ITEM! Dr Debbie Challis will be speaking unto the huddled masses at a free lecture for the National Portrait Gal...