According to the prompt with this title, this post is supposed to be about being trapped with your biggest fear. That’s a bit of problem, see. I don’t really have a biggest fear. One of my political heroes is FD Roosevelt and once he’s told you the only thing you have “to fear is fear […]
Tag Archives: doctor who
Jan
04
Quote Me 4/1
posted by MoreThanACat
Doctor Who fans have many favourite quotes: “what’s the point in being grown up if you can’t be childish?”, “I’m pretty sure that’s Cromer!”, “Chap with the wings there, five rounds rapid!” are high up for those of us of a certain age. And whilst I do like some of the quotes from NuWho, and […]
Mar
16
Scarecrows 2014
posted by MoreThanACat
It’s strange how on your commute to work you tend to mark your seasons by the changing landmarks. And after spotting the very unusual scarecrows for the first time last year, I’ve been looking out for the Family (as Doctor Who fans know they are called). I was prepared this year, with the Nikon in […]
Aug
27
An Avuncular
posted by MoreThanACat
My mind today has been exercised by the concept of an “Avuncular”. Good word isn’t it? Very underused I feel. So I set about redressing this… One of my characters is being an “avuncular”, and – while I’d like to think he is operating from the purest of motives – at the back of my […]
Jul
09
Weekly Photo challenge: Nostalgic
posted by MoreThanACat
You have to be of a certain age to appreciate why these two chaps illustrate the photo challenge so perfectly. One is cultured, mischievous, and stubborn. The other has no time for emotions or culture; although he too is stubborn. For awhile they both seemed consigned to the footnote of culture. One has had a […]
Scarecrows of Mine
posted by MoreThanACat
These guys have been intriguing me for the last couple of months. Everyday – to and from work – they’ve caught my eye. Either because they’ve been standing to attention, or because they have been running. I know they are the latest in a long line of scarecrows – first recorded in English literature in […]
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 […]
Relaunching 2022
More than a Cat 