End as you mean to go on. Or should that be start? We’re on the edge of 2011, staring down the barrel of 2012. I’m wrapping up this mad, tangled year with a cup of tea and a seat by the fire, basking in the glow of twenty-one successful eBay listings and the wonderful news [...]
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Fight the Sky is a collection of fifteen surreal short stories. You can read a preview and purchase from the publisher, or visit Amazon, Lulu, WHSmith and Waterstone's.
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All posts tagged Thoughts
Year in review
Posted by Sinéad on December 31, 2011
http://www.paintinglies.com/2011/12/year-in-review/
Burnt sugar
Here are a few overused and meaningless words I despise: ~*Fabulous*~ Festive Fresh Free Fierce Why do they all begin with F? It makes my blood boil that anything remotely feminine deemed worthy for advertisement is either fabulous or glamorous or drowning in sequins. Festive is so liberally applied to anything within five metres of a [...]
Posted by Sinéad on December 26, 2011
http://www.paintinglies.com/2011/12/burnt-sugar/
Things of interest and importance
My life has slipped back into that indistinguishable blur of wake, work, lament, toss and turn restlessly until morning, yawn, eat, repeat. I’d almost forgotten how much difference a commute to work makes – I lose hours from the day. Potentially useful, crucial hours spent walking and waiting on trains and leaning against walls in [...]
Posted by Sinéad on November 20, 2011
http://www.paintinglies.com/2011/11/things-of-interest-and-importance/
Watershed moment
This week I am tired but well fed, and spoilt for choice so far as reading material goes. I’m going with King’s novel first, of course, but I’m eager to read Inheritance. I haven’t looked yet but I’m hoping there’s an introductory chapter recapping what went on in the prior novels. It’s been so damn long [...]
Posted by Sinéad on November 10, 2011
http://www.paintinglies.com/2011/11/watershed-moment/
This bold heart beats on
“We’re animals trying to be angels, but we are not able to know without words; yet we grow without knowing the verb, and we love without grammar.” – Anno Birkin, 1980-2001 Try not to lose sight of what inspires you. You might change, and grow, and move on, but remember that the flicker came to you [...]
Posted by Sinéad on November 8, 2011
http://www.paintinglies.com/2011/11/this-bold-heart-beats-on/
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