Hi all,

as you Anmar fans are aware, Penny has just started a new thread called "What Milsy Did".
I happen to know that this is also a multi-part tale, but not as long as SEE - nowhere near!

So I have created another entry for it in the "Anmarian Appendices" to provide a simple click mechanism to leap straight to any one particular chapter. This entire portion of the Appendices I shall then order by author name. Unlike everywhere else I have done, these entries shall NOT be in alphabetical order.

G'day all.

I spotted a new (to me) homophone the other day, when an author used the word 'hoard' instead of the correct 'horde' ...

"The hoard of parents swarmed onto the football field ..."

It made me wonder where 'they' had stashed all these parents.

But the follow-up to this made me literally LOL.

I had mentioned it on another site and got a reply from a friend who lives in Las Vegas.

She said: "Here, we would have written 'whored'."

...

Enjoy your weekend folks.

Julia

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Just a little something I stumbled across today...

Most of you will know the format of 'The Voice' programmes on TV.
This season's The Voice UK has just moved into the 'Battles' phase.

One of the 'judges/mentors' is Paloma Faith.

One of the chosen performers to join her team had to withdraw due to personal reasons, so Paloma chose Jordan Gray, who had previously been 'rejected' by all four judges - and all four admitted to having made a mistake afterwards - as her last-gasp replacement, reinstating the performer in the show.

... http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/south_d...

Hi all,

now we have been stunned by Penny's brilliance, and pleased that there is at least one more chapter to come, I find myself in a very strange situation, in several ways.

However, the one of immediate importance is as follows:

Should I include the names etc etc from #139 in the Index?

If so, should it be in a different section?

It might be a HUGE spoiler to anyone coming late to this series!

Your opinions please as to whether I should update the index with all the names and ranks from #139.

Thanks in advance

Julia

https://stream.org/high-school-girls-dont-want-transgender-s...

Maybe even it needs to be more widely spread throughout humanity?

http://driftingthrough.com/2015/11/20/the-thing-all-women-do...

Have a good week

Julia

It happened again!

After a very busy RL phase when I have had limited access to a computer, I am once more back into my regular routine.

So far, I have posted up to #55 of my 'background' tale to Penny's S E E.

I have the next three episodes in varying stages of completion, and Penny and I have been in touch about the tie-ins between these and her tale.

This made me re-read #55 to add some stuff into my #56.

Despite at lease five read throughs before posting it, and other pairs of eyes too, I today spotted two minor typos in #55.

... wishing to improve their skills.

I stumbled across this article on another site, and offer it here.

I take no responsibility for the content.

Maybe it would make a good discussion base?

http://www.helpscout.net/blog/damn-hard-writing/

Happy reading ... and writing.

Julia

The plan:

Sit down with my laptop, taking into account the sunlit balcony and flagons of tea, then prepare #48 for posting, #49 for final editing, #50 for filling out the story outlines into the first draft

The actuality:

Get dragged off to IKEA, buy furniture for the balcony a little less sizable than the bulky 12 year-old table we have been using, spend hours opening cardboard boxes and then screwing, banging and erecting.

So!

Was I:

- IKEAd?
- Flat-packed?
- Swedish ambushed?

Or is there a better verb for this?

Despite being somewhat of a stickler for correct spelling, the humour behind this certainly made me grin ....

Enjoy!

J.

Hi all,

here is a little heads-up on developments.

The next (and final) part of the (my) Chivan tales will be posted in the next few days. Naturally, it stops at the start of the post-Chivan era, so if any of you want to pen some tales to fill in the two great missing swathes of time, then there will be plenty of scope - the time after the Chivans when the Empire came into being, the hangover of which gave rise to the different countries in Garia's time, and the different ruler's titles! Of course, there are also opportunities for many more tales set in Chivan times.

Sir Bradley Wiggins is about to attempt a world cycle record - how far can he go in an hour? Current world record is 52.937 kilometres.

He has just taken to the track for a little warm-up, and the crowd are wildly excited in the velodrome.....

English is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.