Hopefully, this time for longer than two effing hours.
Thanks for your patience. Again.
24 Dec
Hopefully, this time for longer than two effing hours.
Thanks for your patience. Again.
23 Dec
Christmas is at our house again this year, which is just the way I like it. I’ll be doing the cooking, which I really don’t mind, because it gives me a chance to show off my culinary skills. I actually do have them, I just don’t get to use them that often. I’ve just managed to finish the Big Christmas Shop today, and when I go and collect TTG from the airport tomorrow, his job will be to choose the alcohol.
This is my menu this year:
Pork and Apricot Pate (I can never remember how to get the French accent on my keyboard), served with melted applewood-smoked cheese on French toast, accompanied by mixed salad and tangy orange sauce.
Or:
Tomato and basil soup served with crusty white cobs
Stuffed roasted chicken, seasoned with lemon pepper, accompanied by creamed button sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower, honey-glazed roasted potatoes, my special cheesy mashed potatoes and swede, sausage wrapped in Applewood smoked bacon, and pork, cranberry and apple stuffing.
Baked nutmeg and cinnamon creamed rice pudding, Christmas pudding and custard (a shout out to TTG’s mum for making the Xmas pudding)freshly made raspberry trifle, or lemon cheesecake.
This year’s Xmas entertainment will include a Nintendo Wii tournament, Pictionary challenge, and a Trivial Pursuits competition.
As always, I’m looking forward to spending time with my family. We are all incredibly close, and I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be on Christmas Day, than spending time with the ones I love the most.
What will you guys be doing?
23 Dec
Hi Guys, the main blog is down again, I’ve made the decision to move servers. I was going to wait until the New Year, but I seriously do not need this crap, so I’m saying ta-ta to Hostmonster.
Anyway, thanks very much for bearing with us, and hopefully, it will be a smoother transition, than the last time I did this.
20 Dec
Hi Peeps, it looks like the main blog is back, unfortunately, many of your last comments weren’t backed up, and so have been lost, but at least the blog is back again.
Thanks for bearing with us!
19 Dec
For the people who’ve bothered to pop over, I thought I’d give you a moral dilemma to chew over, so that you don’t have to keep refreshing the page to within an inch of your life, only to find no new posts.
You’re walking along one evening, when you come across a guy who’s obviously been badly beaten on the ground. You rush over to help him, being the fine upstanding citizen that you are. Once you get close to him, you realise that you know who he is.
He is the local paedophile, who served time for raping and molesting several young girls a few years ago. He’s now out of prison, and was determined to get on with his life.
What do you do?
Do you help him out, like the fine upstanding citizen that you are, thinking that he’s served his time, and should be given the chance to move on, or do you leave him bleeding on the ground, because animals like him don’t deserve second chances?
What would you do?
19 Dec
We’re currently experiencing difficulties with the main blog, server problems etc. We’ll be back as soon as it’s sorted.
20 Mar
You’ll be pleased to know that we’re with a new host, thank the lord. Hopefully this one wont cause us as many problems, but if it does, I’ll be back at this blog.
You can now find me at Karenknowsbest.com.
Thanks muchly to Luna, for moving us so quickly.
19 Mar
I was sent this link by a source so anonymous, even I don’t know who he/she is.
It’s a post from one of the Torquere authors who apparently belongs in the ‘In Crowd’ over there:
Ya know… If I really wanted to hear all the frickin’ mud-slinging that goes on within this biz (namely on blogs), I’d have gone into politics. For the record: I love my publishers. So for those idiots who have nothing better to do than drag pubs through the mud just for the sake of blog hits, feel free to step out in front of a car.
Have a nice day. 🙂
Apparently, he/she also writes under the name of Kaye Derwydd. No idea who she/he is of course.
I’ll post some of his accompanying comments shall I? (FreePublicityFreePublicityFreePublicity!)
Torquere, Phaze… I’m happy with my pubs, and I honestly don’t understand where the drive to spout shit about pubs comes from. Between private conversations among friends? Bitch all ya want. But in public? These morons need to learn to get their facts straight.
This is a comment from one of Mychael’s cronies:
Some folks got no manners…
and no awareness of how small the biz really is. Names get noted, and remembered.
And Mychael replies with:
Yup. Which is probably why some of these people start the mud-slinging–either they or someone they know was probably rejected/not happy, and poof! The press in question is officially evil.
This next comment is from another of Mychael’s readers, and I thought it was very telling:
not sure where, who, what was said ect – I agree with you tho’ – it’s one thing to express your concerns about a pub in private – but to post in a public forum is just wrong
The above comments epitomizes a lot of what is wrong with the e-publishing industry right now.
What worries me even more is this sentiment from the Anon who sent the link:
Please don’t name this email or the source. These people are psychos. Note the threats of violence. Balanced – not.
Not much else for me to say really apart from….Am I the only person who’s annoyed at the way Mychael Black has chosen to spell his/her name? Sheesh.
19 Mar
Luna was in the middle of moving everything to another host, but obviously that takes time. I can’t understand why the current host can’t sort this crap out. Flaming incompetent fools.
Anyway, here’s hoping Luna gets the move speeded up.
And here’s hoping that you guys took down this address when I posted it originally when my blog came back up the last time.
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