Overflow of thoughts from my brainpan.
Give stuff away and people will buy the physical product.
Another example would be Freakangels, give away the episodes and people will buy the bound book.
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Both good and bad things today.
First the good thing – I went into the Waterstones bookshop in Bury St. Edmunds and not only were they stocking my book, but they also had a nice little written note under it.
The staff there also helped me find a book I was looking for, so I can recommend them completely as excellent people of taste and distinction.
The less good thing happened when I stopped off for a walk around a nature park – I was walking along the lakeside when I found myself surrounded by thousands of tiny baby frogs, all about the size of a penny.
I hated to think how many I’d trodden on without noticing, so what then followed was me walking 400 yards on tiptoe, trying to avoid stepping on any one of the cute little ethical landmines.
I must have looked a right pillock, but I tend to have Jainist tendencies (except when it comes to eating meat, which I do as if it’s going out of fashion, or wearing leather, or punching people who annoy me – yes, I am a hypocrite).
I’ll pop some photos up on my Flickr stream when I get the chance.
Tomorrow is Bletchley Park and Oxford and if all goes well I’ll end up in Salisbury.
Ok, so I’m on my trip. Currently sitting in a Travelodge just outside Bury St. Edmunds (which always sounds like an instruction to me) paying a silly price for wifi. I would be using my new 3G E169G modem dongle, but of course it doesn’t like Leopard 10.5.3… I can boot into Windows and use it, but then I get the dreaded ‘Blue screen of death’. Ho hum.
The plan for tomorrow is to wander around Bury St. Edmunds (but make sure he’s dead first) soaking in the sights, then head towards Oxford where I shall be staying in a, no doubt, identical Travelodge room.
Then the next day I shall go to Bletchley Park and see that, then back to Oxford and bimble around until later. Once I’m bored I’ll then drive down to Salisbury in order to book in at a Travel Inn.
Not that I’ll be seeing much of the inn as I shall be heading of to Stonehenge to watch the dawn come up on a summer solstice while robbing from hippies who will be too stoned to notice*.
Ahem.
Then I have no plans, but I’ll probably be heading down Cornwall way maybe swinging past Swanage.
After that – probably North…
Did I do one yesterday? Blimey, I’m going mad. This is me, working, in bed, doing writey stuff.
Actually a pint of John Smiths, not that more famous Irish based pint.
If I start photographing books I’ll have run out of material…
Round my mum’s place working on an article for Engineer magazine. Taken with an iPhone under rather poor light.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to guess what that hospital canteen food is…
Good luck, I ate it and I’m not sure.
You’d think that living and working in WhitechapEL would mean that you make sure the sign-writers spell your shops location correctly…
I wonder – If a sign-writer misspells your sign, do you have to pay?
Taken 60 seconds ago. Partly an experiment to see how easy it is to blog a photo using nothing but an iPhone from start to finish.
Answer?
Very easy.
Another photo from my holiday in America. This one is of a stack of pots in a market. I’ve applied a ’sketch’ filter in order to cunningly disguise the atrocious lack of focus in the original shot.
What can I say – my camera was new…
