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lizardyoga wrote 1 week ago: In the library again today.  Very tired – slept badly in spite of valerian.  Very annoying.  B … more →

Tags: Poems, My Genius, Poem, Library

That was the week that was...

lizardyoga wrote 1 month ago: Busy this week.  At library working in the day.  Have a collection of poems now which is all dressed … more →

Tags: Poems, Friends and Family, God bothering, radio play, Church of the Martyrs, Tomatoes, Regent College

Update

lizardyoga wrote 2 months ago: Hi all Settling into a pattern of being back at weekends and in the woods Mon – Fri.  It seems … more →

Tags: Poems, peter, Culcha, My Genius, Mirch Marsala, Panem et circenses, my magnum opus

Update

lizardyoga wrote 3 months ago: Hi everyone.  Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while.  We were at the chalet, then had a good hol … more →

Tags: Friends and Family, Culcha, New Novel

Seven Days

lizardyoga wrote 4 months ago: OK Seven Days, if you’re interested, was my first novel.  It had seven chapters and the conten … more →

Tags: My Genius, Novel, seven days, Martyrs, Trinity

Deep and crisp and even

lizardyoga wrote 4 months ago: .. were the chips we had last night.  Delicious food, well-presented and served with a smile.  The u … more →

Tags: Friends and Family, Culcha, My Genius, seven days, Queen's Head Saddington, deep and crisp and even

Think once, think twice...

lizardyoga wrote 8 months ago: Here’s the thing: deep in my core, down in the place where my soul would be if I had one (only jokin … more →

Tags: Friends and Family, Culcha, My Genius, Short Stories, Think once think twice think bike, life! don't talk to me about life!

Here's the new plan...2 comments

lizardyoga wrote 9 months ago: Slept badly, woke up this morning – and now I have a new plan! I think I’m finally ready to start wr … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Novel, seven days, Plan, Friends

Desert Songs

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: Feeling very low, as befits the time of year. These poems say it all: Now back from a quarter’ … more →

Tags: Poems, Culcha, My Genius

Today, and today, and today...

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: Yestrday started to mind-map some ideas for a novel based in Hounslow, where I grew up, Thinking abo … more →

Tags: Poems, My Genius, Helen Forrester, Twopence to Cross the Merse, Y

Depressed today

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: Feeling low. When I woke up I didn’t remember anything about myself or my life – I didn … more →

Tags: Friends and Family, Short Stories

One must always have something sensational to read...

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: …which is of course a reference to “The Importance of Being Earnest”, and refers t … more →

Tags: Mum's death, Importance of Being Earnest, seven days, first novel

A Christmas Tale

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: (this is the blindest part of an utterly blind novel I wrote when I was in my early thirties. I was … more →

Tags: the voice of the barred, blind novel, scene what I wrote, snow, Father Christmas, Holocaust

Something for the rest of your life, sir?

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: The last couple of days, I’ve been working in the library, hence no blogging.  I have reached … more →

Tags: the voice of the barred, The madness of Mark, Culcha, Proust, I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok

On Obscurity

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: This was my thought at 4.30 am this morning: In medias race. In the middle of life’s race I am … more →

Tags: Poems, the voice of the barred, Obscurity, time traveller's wife

Novel Chapter and Blog statistics...

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: Blog stats: no. of comments on my genius: 79 No. of spam comments: 522 What does this say about our … more →

Tags: Novel chapter 7

Limerick lovers everywhere...

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: Good morning Doug and other limerick lovers. Here are some you may have missed plus a couple of new … more →

Tags: Poems, What sort of writer am I, Bipolar Disorder, remains of the day, Gone with the Wind

More tea Vicar?

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: Chapter Six I’ve always considered the number six to be somewhat smug. You know, like two rows … more →

Tags: chapter six, raincoats

Second Slice of the Novel

lizardyoga wrote 1 year ago: Is your tea strong enough? Not too strong? So we can be quite comfortable. Move the cushions if you … more →

Tags: second slice of novel


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