Mid-Winter is a tricky time of year for me. Firstly there's all that nonsense about Christmas being warred upon. People get up in arms about the strangest of things - who really cares what sort of paper cups that Starbucks is using? It's annoying and amusing at the same time. Then there's all the hoo-har… Continue reading Satyulemas is coming…
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Merry Satyulemas!
And what is Satyulemas? Well it's actually a festival of my own devising. I use it in my alternate Earth books and stories... however, my family loved the idea of it, so we adopted it for our own purposes. It covers Saturnalia, Yule and Christmas and ends the day after my youngest daughter's birthday which… Continue reading Merry Satyulemas!
As Satyulemas approaches…
...I start looking back at what has happened to me in a personal sense over the year. This year has been one of the most stressful in my life. We started the year losing several of my favourite celebrities. Losing people familiar to me (even in a distant fashion) upsets and unbalances me. Then we… Continue reading As Satyulemas approaches…