- Still plugging away with story, back on track, deadline extended, buoyed by encouraging email from Freya North #blatantnamedropping #
- Also, am busily growing Victorian whiskers like Yardley in Lagaan: http://bit.ly/1YNIIi It's awfully hard work. Energy-sapping. #
- Feel like I'm pulling teeth. My short story heroine has just thrown a shoe at a copper & will shortly escape into building site. What larks. #
- Draft one written. 6728 words. Will have to ask questions about rights and suchlike before sending it to publisher tomorrow, though. #
- RT @BritsOnPole Remember Henry Surtees with a donation to Headway http://bit.ly/6qLRw #
- Very pleased to have the writing complete but haven't heard back from editor with answers to my questions. Attempting to resume normal life. #
- Ha. Most amused to find myself looking thrilled and attentive, leaning on one elbow, in slide #32 of this: http://bit.ly/hZII2 #
- Been on wild goose chase to Norfolk. Got hot, sticky, grouchy, sank ankle-deep in a bog and drove home through a rainstorm. Not want. #
- Finally the publisher has replied re story rights. Not encouraging, they seem to want everything – complete ownership. Am negotiating. #
- RT @avaragado Bush asked Chirac to help invade Iraq "to thwart Bible's satanic agents of Apocalypse" http://bit.ly/Uxlih (via @ElrikMerlin) #
- Can't believe John Hughes has gone, age 59. BBC video report here gets what he meant to my generation http://bit.ly/YEQCs #
- Watching this reminds me how, when growing up, my idea of what was cool, stylish, & romantic was formed by John Hughes http://bit.ly/14b8to #
- I still think Ally Sheedy's Breakfast Club character looked better before her makeover, though… #
- For those of you not taking much notice of The #Ashes today – don't! England currently 97-7 in their first innings. #
- England all out for 102… slightly dodgy decision sends Onions back to the pavilion. This is… not good. #Ashes #
- Check this video out — Project Bueller at the NYC Halloween Parade http://bit.ly/fAagf #
- Sends sympathy to Norwich-supporting friends. But a few more like today are needed before you're as embarrassed by your manager as I am mine #
- RT @stephenfry This picture proves that I've got a big cock http://twitpic.com/dbgjp [Blimey!] #