Digger John's Garret Studio

An armchair by the fire of life.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Gatekeeper in beta

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It's been very quiet here for a year or so, but that's because my writerly time has been spent drafting, honing, editing and polishi...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

The Dead Pool comes to life

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It's been exactly a year since I wrote my sad tale about the frogs we were "losing" in our pond, which I'd started referri...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Croaking Frogs

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One of the features of our new garden that surprised me when we first saw the design on paper was the pond. I don't remember explicitl...
Monday, June 17, 2013

The Great Outdoors

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After the transformation of our back garden at the end of last year from tattered wilderness to outdoor designer living space, we've wat...
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Friday, May 10, 2013

The plot thickens

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...but it's not gravy yet. Last time I mentioned The Second Book , I'd arrived at the synopsis expansion stage, or the bit where I...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

Money! (It's a gas)

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After almost exactly two years, I'm finally getting to the bottom of the eBay pile. Maybe I'm overstating it slightly in the title....
Thursday, April 04, 2013

Taking the tablets

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Almost exactly a month since I posted about my new tablet . I'll be taking it back today. No, I haven't dropped it! Nor am I bor...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

The fish move in (with video!)

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As I'm sure you remember, our ocellated barbs were in the vanguard of fishy occupancy in the new tank having moved in last month. Apo...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Barring the code

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I bought some printer ink yesterday. I know - rock and roll, eh? I had an urgent letter to print. Naturally the printer, which had been show...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Reaching the plot spot

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It's about six weeks since I wrote that I'd completed Snowflake Stage 3 , and now I've moved on past stages 4 & 5. That'...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

The crux of the matter

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Here we are at a nexus... Literally. A Nexus 7. Following the rapid and unexpected demise * of my iPad on Tuesday last, I was faced wit...
Saturday, March 02, 2013

Cucking Fookies

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Been on the Internet for years, me. I can't claim to have been "one of the first" to hit the wires, but I wasn't far behin...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Ouch

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I never learn. It's always when I'm most distracted that I ignore my little voice, and it never turns out well. In the past I've...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

The February of technology

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Which is a whole lot different to the march of technology. Because our February (and our January come to that) has seen the wheels start t...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

In a life I more nice

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I'm a lucky man. There can't be many men as sought after by hordes of Russian beauties as I. They write to me all the time. Some o...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Ocellations

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Took the plunge last Friday and transferred our five ocellated barbs  to the new tank. I wanted them to have 48 hours in there, producing th...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

New Review

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I've been soliciting. Not like that! No... a few months ago I happened across a post by a well-known blogger of "all aspects of w...
Thursday, February 07, 2013

Fun with ammonia

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You may have heard the comedic feminist epigram: "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." Well... fish may not need a ...
Friday, February 01, 2013

FuruTankee

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Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, where I claimed "KaraTankee" might mean empty tank, we have FuruTankee. Because Google t...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

KaraTankee

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Well, you know, KaraTe is "empty hand". KaraOke is "empty orchestra". So KaraTankee is "empty tank." Yep, t...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The snow is falling

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Writing is often referred to as a solitary activity. Even though you may choose to undertake it in company, by  its very nature unless you...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Our new aquarium... prototype

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During the long project dubbed the "new new lounge" last year, we debated what to do with our fish . We've now had them thr...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Why we called him Hobo

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What with one thing and another it's been well over a year since I posted a cat update. The last time a photo of our lad appeared on he...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The eRoute to eSuccess

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When I first started writing War of Nutrition (so long ago it even had a different title), self-publishing was frowned upon by "real...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Finishing off at the back

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Last time anyone on here saw a photo of our imminent new deck, it looked like the last photo in this post , which was the position after thr...
Monday, January 14, 2013

There's only so many times you can say...

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..."Nearly There." But we really are. The " new new lounge " has been occupied since just before Christmas, and there...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

I used to be apathetic...

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...but these days I just can't be bothered. We had a lovely weekend - the one just gone - spending time with some good friends who wer...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Floored all over again

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We've not been sitting around doing nothing while all this work's been going on in the garden. Well, *I* have, but downstairs in the...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Changes to the Landscape

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It's been a long time coming. Procrastination before approaching a landscaping company, changes to the design, holiday absences for ever...
Friday, November 16, 2012

What happened on November 14?

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Apart from our garden project starting, that is, of which more in a later post. No, I'm talking about the extraordinary explosion in m...
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