Thoughts

Tempting Fate

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“Council plans to underwrite a £100,000 unveiling ceremony for a statue of Margaret Thatcher in her home town of Grantham have been approved.“

The statue itself cost £300,000.00 and they want to use £100,000.00 of public money for a ceremony to unveil it.

In a time of austerity and poverty, with record numbers of homeless, jobless and struggling people relying on foodbanks I can honestly say that this is definitely what she would have wanted.

My only concern is that a stray bolt of lightning will bring the fucking thing to life and she’ll start a new reign of terror in an immortal three metre form, like a right-wing golem breaking into schools and stamping on free school meals.

Just kidding. God wouldn’t touch this hell-creature even at lightning-bolt reach.

Writing

The Crow Journal

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The Crow Journal by [Finn Cullen]

My latest novel – a story of magic and intrigue set at least partially in the crowded metropolis of London in the 1850s is now available at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other regional amazons.

The protagonist is Barnaby Silver, a young man newly come to town to confront the past that his mother, a powerful sorceress, fled from when he was just an infant.

He will discover that his powers and his heritage make him not only an outcast from mundane society but also from the Order of Magi that exists secretly in the heart of the city, and from the hidden Faerie realms that border the human world – both the wild woods of Green Jack and his court, and the nightmare pastiche of the worst slums of London ruled over by the sinister Constable Rook.

Outcast or not he has truths to uncover and a web of conspiracy to unravel before he learns the truth of his mother’s long ago flight from mortal peril, and where exactly he has been running to for all his life.

Currently available as a Kindle e-Book with a paperback edition to follow in a week or so

Gaming · Thoughts

Tonic

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Gin and Tonic Cocktail Recipe

I can’t believe it’s been two months or so since I last updated this blog. A lot has happened, or to be precise a lot has happened to many many people but very little has happened to me. Under the lockdown resultant from the pandemic I’ve been working from home since the end of March and apart from a week of feeling dreadful early on with all the classic symptoms of Covid-19, I and my family have all been fine. Did I have the dreaded ailment? In the absence of testing there is no way of knowing and of course there is no guarantee that having had it provides further immunity in any case. It would be an odd exception to the normal coronavirus properties if immunity was achieved after an infection.

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