http://www.womblin.com/blog author/editor womblin's chaos Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:11:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi Everyone, Please add your voices to the growing number of outraged young people and adults who are campaigning to have ultra-sonic 'dispersal' devices outlawed. Details are below, as is a web-link to the Buzz Off website and also a link straight through to a government petition asking the Prime Minister ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2008/02/19/from-chucks-to-children/ With reference to my feelings on Battery Hen welfare, posted last September here I now bring you some pretty good news following a week of celebrity chef documentaries on chickens and chicken farming. Helmanns, who make the UK's best loved mayonnaise, have announced that they will be introducing a free ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2008/01/16/chicken-out-campaign/ ...Is the question asked on the BBC Magazine website. So, do we? I have to admit that I like to learn something new when reading a novel, even if it's only a description, a scene being set of a place I've never been. There's nothing like it, being inside someone ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2008/01/10/do-you-need-to-read-books-to-be-clever/ I am reading eight (count 'em) EIGHT drafts as well as writing my own novel for National Novel Writing Month. Good thing I don't have to critique them too, or add detailed comments about why I am enjoying them so much -- I do like to sleep a little bit ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2007/11/07/that-nano-feeling/ Just take a look at this. Scientists have 'discovered' that neatness stymies creativity. Blinks. Scientists have 'discovered' the right side of the brain, it seems. Crikey, I could have told these highly-paid people that messy is good when it comes to creativity, that one should allow the muse its way with the person doing ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2007/10/26/scrawl-right/ I'm not much of a one for writing short stories, but once in a while the world thrusts one at me and demands it be told. (I call these the Tales From Yr am Bythau, but that's another post, not for today). The more recent of these demands was made ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2007/10/17/33/ I've got the full quote of the line from Aliens: “We'd better get back 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly. ” Newt, a little girl, is the sole survivor on a planet of human settlers that has been ravaged by the aliens. Very spooky in context. ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2007/10/16/one-line-horror2/ Horror can be a gentle and long build-up to climax incorporating atmosphere and emotion along with story details we already know -- or it can be contained in only a single line of sense-exciting prose. I like those mono-scenes that say and do so much to make us shiver or ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2007/10/15/one-line-horror/ I am annoyed. Very much so. I know this is old news, but since Sir Ian McKellen has said that it's looking more and more likely that he will play Gandalf again for The Hobbit, I feel the subject needs to be re-addressed. Peter Jackson successfully brought Middle Earth alive and into ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2007/10/15/31/ For those of you who neither know nor care that I used to haunt the canals of Britain in a narrowboat, please don't bother reading this. Anyone who does boat, or is interested, this is a rant. Be warned.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Is it one, two…three or more? Boats, I mean, going through lift ... http://www.womblin.com/blog/2007/10/09/how-many-is-enough/