…An early electric hearing aid to the rest of us, has been the focus of today’s research. Invented by Miller Reece Hutchinson in 1898, it used carbon transmitters to convert a weak electrical signal. It was bulky by all accounts – needing to be housed on a table – and thus cumbersome to transport. It […]
Category Archives: musings
Aug
09
A day of research and learning
posted by MoreThanACat
Today has been a bizarre day. A creative procrastination day – if you will. So to get over it, I created a scapple to try and marshall my thoughts. The result was productive. I have a character: a Doctor Peter Welney; an archaeologist returning from India. He was a blank canvas. He breaks up a […]
Sleep 7/2
posted by MoreThanACat
Has been an awkward bugger of late. Catching me in the chair, it lets me doze until bedtime. Then it lulls me into a false security til 1am, when it leaves. It has been doing that all week. To say that I am tired is an understatement. I am knackered. Bereft of life. Zombie walking […]
off piste 31/1
posted by MoreThanACat
After the “fire” of yesterday’s post, I was supposed to be writing about the things I had to leave behind, but as I live on a boat in a minimalist kind of life style, I didn’t think there was lot of mileage in writing about pots and pans. So I’ve gone off piste. This post […]
Burning Down the House 30/1
posted by MoreThanACat
The house is burning down. All humans and animals are safe. What would I take? 5 items. My laptop. It has the latest draft of the work in progress, odds and sods for books as yet unwritten, and drafts of the others in their just before publication state. Why? I’m with Gwendolyn from The Importance […]
Ode to a Playground 28/1
posted by MoreThanACat
As a navy brat, born 25 years after the end of WW2, my playground consisted of gun emplacements, pillboxes, mysteriously short narrow guage tracks which petered into undergrowth; large swaiths of concrete and other debris that littered the south coast. I remember vividly one weekend, there was a cycling race, and we were at a […]
The haitus
posted by MoreThanACat
Work got in the way of life this week, hence no blogging. The difficult thing was that as work got more convoluted and the hours longer, I wanted so much to zone out and write. I even got as far as taking the trusty laptop to school and organising the assessments so the children wrote […]
Recent Posts: Sarah E Smith
A Line In The Sand
One of my characters in Widowhood of Spiders (book 2 of Symington’s adventures) is angry. So angry in fact he is in danger of breaking the unwritten code of the criminal world: twice. Not only is he in the process of killing a policeman; he is doing it in front of witnesses – not bound […]
Engineering Rows
This week I’ve been doing a lot of thinking rather than a lot of writing. Being stuck in traffic is like that. And I’ve been thinking about my victim. Well one of them. A chap by the name of Sir Martin Hamblebee. In my head he’s a nasty piece of work. A bully. A pompous […]
5 Questions for Authors: Ann Wuehler
Until recently, all I knew about Ann was that she wrote for the same publisher as I do (KGHH), and lives in the same state as my cousin (Oregon). So I asked her to give me a bit of a biography, which was a good thing because her writing credentials are epic. Make me feel […]
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Time’s War
