COVID DIARY: DAY 356 Back to School

It’s been over a week since I got vaccinated. No further side effects beyond the cold shoulder and the flu(ish) symptoms for a day. I feel well (overweight, but well). The vaccine seems safe enough to me. I’m still shielding but the rest of the family is back to school. My son has gone back […]

COVID DIARY: DAY 348, The Vaccine

Yes, the title seems slightly misleading, but its not. Clearly, I am still alive and have managed to avoid Covid so far (in all its different mutated forms). I have played with the idea of pranking the Internet by playing dead, but eventually came to the conclusion that no one actually reads my blog (other […]

Reader Focus Group Session: 19th May 2011

As a part of my writing process I like to get some test readers to give me their views on what they think about a story, so I asked Janine Maclean, Head of Media Studies at Marsden Heights Community College to recruit a number of her students to help me out. They were given the […]