Tag Archive | humour
…well, whaddya know?… my wee blog celebrates its millennium post…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…when yeez reach 21, yeez supposedly get the ‘Key to the Door’… if sum’thing lasts until the magic 50 number, it’s a Golden Anniversary… and knock on to 60 and yeez register for a Diamond Jubilee… race away and get the 100 up, and there’s yer Centenary, and the customary, polite ’round…
..a lotta little makes a lot… same with book sales…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…hiding yer light under a bushel is okay if yeez are into deflected interior decorating illumination… but for quill-scrapers, that serves little or no purpose… make no mistake, I am fervently anti-spamming… however, it behoves every scribbler showing any of their wee masterpieces out there in the public domain, gently, gently,…
Danny and the Alligator
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
We slog through the antediluvian swamp, a diaphanous mist rises from the quagmire and a miasmal stench fills our nostrils. The authorities are pursuing us, though we have done nothing wrong. Well, Andrew (my human) has done nothing wrong. I, on the other hand, bit…
Christmas Shopping Help
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
With just one day until Christmas, are you stressing over your gifts? Are you wondering whether you should get that person at work whose name you barely remember a nice little something? Are you about to run around screaming? Fret no more, for help is at hand: the ultimate Christmas…
…serious plea for help… I need a Dummy’s Guide To An Author’s SENSIBLE Use Of Goodreads… all suggestions welcome…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…Dear Aunty Helpline… …by this time, I should know already how best to maximise my participation in Goodreads… but… but… I can do the Rubik Cube… I’m a wizz at Sudoko… yer quadratic equations?… no problem… speak a blethering tongueful of languages… easy… but figure out how an Author is supposed to…
…fine dining.. as ye’re (sum’times) allowed to have it…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Jurassic makes no secret of the fact that he LUVS good food… witness, a waistline prob’ly ‘a-hem’ inches tighter than it should be, and a weighing-scale marker sum’what higher than most GPs would recommend for an almost-iconic Author like me… my range of menu preference would do justice to…
…Authors… how good ‘plants’ enrich yer scribbling masterpieces…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…readers, by and large, are clever, intelligent folks… they can also often be dismissive of shoddy WURK from an Author, regardless of how vaunted that writer’s celebrity may be… the basic mystery novel, and much of crime stories will frequently hold wee ‘pointers’ toward the eventual denouement of the plot……
…Vogue For Scottish Clansmen… or, if it’s good enuff for Braveheart, it’s good enuff for me…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…over on Facebook today, my great pal Authoress, Fiona Quinn asks a coupla questions about mens’ fashion, such as ‘mens’ purses’, ‘tight-fits-above-the-ankle wear’ and suchlike… to we common or garden, (or p’raps common or heather-laden moor) barbarians of North Britain the situation is never under doubt… yeez’ll be aware that…
Are you in a Gothic Horror Novel?
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
by Bizarrocomics.com As you seemed to enjoy last week’s post, Are you in a Regency Romance Novel?, I’ve got another one for you, also by The Toast (again, I would have reblogged, but The Toast doesn’t allow that). This one, written by Abi Inman, answers the burning question in everyone’s mind……
..in Memoriam, Miss Kerr… Born 18 ? ?— Died 1962…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
..a wee change of pace from my usual content, and I’ll ask yeez to bear with it, and read it through to the end… when Master Gallacher was all of fourteen years old, most of the non-school hours were spent playing football with my pals on the spare ground close…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 