Jun 8, 2021 | Blogroll
When bile is beautiful In my SUPPOSE WE science fiction novel, the Chief Science Officer, Gaston, is enamoured by an alien butterfly he calls Papillon. The creature looks like a butterfly with the size of a Red Admiral, but it really is in a symbiotic connection with...
May 24, 2021 | Blogroll
This is the time of year that weeds are spotted and snarlingly eradicated. Before you lacerate the horsetail Equisetum plants just give it a little thought. Maybe even lie down on your lawn to look at them and imagine them twice the height of a house! Horsetails are...
Apr 9, 2021 | Blogroll
We moved to Flixton in December 2020, a small township in Greater Manchester on the Lancashire / Cheshire border and just inside the former. It meant Mrs N had finally moved back to the county in which she was born. That wasn’t the reason: we moved to be closer to...
Mar 26, 2021 | Blogroll
Ages ago when my grandkids weren’t as wise as they are now, I wrote half a dozen illustrated children’s stories for them. Obviously, they were tinged with the Nelder surreal touch. Only one was professionally illustrated. She is Kathleen Bullock living in America and...
Mar 23, 2021 | Blogroll
Robots are vegan unless there are animal-based lubricants and other parts used. Aggressive AI would likely be vegan even if they have zero compunction on expunging organics if they get in the way. The laws of robotics are only relevant for readers of Asimov, which...
Mar 21, 2021 | Blogroll
This week’s blog has been gatecrashed by a new, crazy, must-be-read author, Craig Meighan aided and abetted (what does that mean?) by his debut novel FAR FAR BEYOND BERLIN. I will be interrogating this usurper but meanwhile here’s the blurb and bio. Blurb Even...
