Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

So Regis Loisel has finally finished his masterpiece. Destins, the 6^th and final volume of his Peter Pan cycle is here at last.

No more cute fairies and complex plots. Loisel has given us six volumes of wonder, in some of the best BD to date.



(thanks to marypcb for carrying it back on the Eurostar for me)

As the story I'm working on seems intent in turning into William Hope Hodgson's "The Free-House on the Borderland", somehow I started thinking of just what the pub reviews of great SF and fantasy writers would be...

So, we have J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Last Friendly Tied House", George R. R. Martin's epic study of pub pianos "A Sing-along of Ice and Fire", Anne McCaffrey's "At the sign of The White Dragon" (and of course, her paen to Fuller's - "Lyon's London Pride"), Arthur C. Clarke's examination of the beer purchasing patterns at one London off-licence "Ales from the White Hart", Dan Simmons' guide to strong beers "Hard as Ales", and William Barton's "When We Were Real Ales".

The list goes on, I'm sure...

Introducing the extremely obvious Metric Shedde.

As in: "Blimey, you've got a metric shedde-load there, mate."

A winter sunset on a frosty day. A view over Ham from Richmond Park, December 2004.

On a winter's day the trees snatch the moon from the sky and toss it between their branches, in an arborial game of catch.

Richmond Park, December 2004