Folks, We have had many tens of thousands of e-mails from people and the letter flood is just beginning to bite (hilariously, spam traps here tend to pick up things like ‘medication’ and treat quite a lot of the mail as spam. If we switch them off, we get all the spam too – hurrah!)….
Read moreFolks, My good friend Sandra Kidby of PJSM Prints is allowing me to use her website because I am proverbially too busy to run one of my own. We have hardly the time even to read the thousands of messages that have come in here, let alone reply to them, but thank you all. Could I make a…
Read moreFolks, I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of earlyonset Alzheimer’s, which lay behind this year’s…
Read moreI’m sure many of you recall young Euan Macrae, who was my guest at last year’s Discworld convention. I had already met him as a result of an approach from the Make-a-Wish foundation because he had a very serious and complex illness. There was a huge incongruity in watching him become the champion Assassin in…
Read moreCould there have been a better place to see the recent Perseid meteor shower than Patrick Moore’s back garden? Conversation was a little on the difficult side, since invariably the person you were talking to would suddenly shriek and look over your shoulder at an impressive shower that you had just missed because you were looking the wrong way….
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