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… ‘the moving finger having writ, moves on…’
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…they say there are lies, damn lies and statistics, Mabel… that may well be, but I couldn’t help notice this morning when I tapped into my blog pages, that it tells me I’ve posted 1,700 posts since this blog first saw the light of day back in May 31st, 2012……
…the beauty of the ear is in the lobe of the beholder…
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…it takes a l-oooooooooo-ng time for this ol’ Scots Jurassic to adapt to new things… I didn’t start wearing long trousers until I was about 15 years old… when I acquire a new cellphone (I believe they’re called ‘mobile phones’ now), it takes an absolute age for me to understand…
…from Goonhilly Downs… to the WURLD…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…11th July, 1962… prob’ly not a date that gets instant recall in the minds of most people… I remember the occasion, but not the date itself… the first ever transatlantic satellite television signal between the USA and Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall on the West Coast of England… black and white television…
…to what depths in Hell has Humanity sunk?
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…apparently from April 16th, 2018, in certain parts of England, it will be officially a crime for homeless street people to ask the public for help or for money… please read that again, and let it sink in… IT WILL BE A CRIME TO ASK FOR HELP OR FOR MONEY…
…scoff not at the honest endeavours of others…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…to every man, woman, and child who ever picked up a pen or pencil, tapped at a typewriter, clicked at a keyboard, in an effort to WRITE SUM’THING out of their own imagination, I salute yeez… each and every one of yeez… heroes and heroines all… lately, I saw a…
…what knavery therein lurks?
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…one of the wee side issues which occurs frequently when people learn that this’ ol’ Jurassic is actually a scribbler is the request to have themselves feature in one of yer next crime thrillers… inevitably I ask the question, ‘Would that be as a good guy/lady or a bad guy/lady?’……
…so when will 100 years old be considered the new ‘middle age’?
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…it’s an extraordinary thing this age business… when Master Gallacher was creeping into his teens, emb’dy who was over thirty years old was regarded as ‘getting on a bit’… when my turn came to reach that same ripe milestone of 30, the horizon had stretched sum’what to ‘oldies’ being on…
…have yeez been introduced to my Jack Calder characters yet?…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…the inevitable question arrived the other day, when I was Guest Speaker at The Royal University for Women in Bahrain… are the characters in the books modelled after ‘real’ people?… for a split second, I felt that p’raps the audience thought the players in the novels were only figments of…
…Author Jack Eason nails it for writing and acting jobbing jobs…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…my scribbling buddy, Author, Jack Eason, puts in perspective the LUV of writing versus the opportunities to ‘let that little literary light shine’… KINDRED SPIRITS The jobbing actor remembered for all time as a British spy chief As jobbing writers we can never rely on our work to feed us.…
…let there ALWAYS be libraries…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
ELDER PARK LIBRARY …by any stretch of the measurement of age, this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler is no longer a youth… I adulted around a-hem years ago… and having become in recent years an Author, I have more than a passing interest in the comparatively new debate as to whether…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 