Evil Genius and Fire of Cassa!

To celebrate beautiful Golden Eagle's Aerial Perspective's 2 year blogoversary, she is hosting an Evil Genius blogfest and asks: Who is your evil genius?

Well, my evil genius is my writer's block:

Charlie says: I move only for extra treats.

CASSAFIRE BLOG PARTY!

28 February sees the launch of the sequel to CassaStar by the yummy Alex J Cavanaugh!

The Vindicarn War is a distant memory and Byron'’s days of piloting Cosbolt fighters are over. He has kept the promise he made to his fallen mentor and friend - to probe space on an exploration vessel.

The detection of alien ruins sends the exploration ship to the distant planet of Tgren. If their scientists can decipher the language, they can unlock the secrets of this device.

To complicate matters, the Tgrens are showing signs of mental powers themselves; the strongest of which belongs to a female pilot named Athee. Forced to train Athee's mind Byron finds his patience strained. All Byron wanted was his privacy….

Please visit Alex here! There's a chance to win a special CassaFire goody bag! There'a also a trailer here!

CassaFire will be available from 28th Feb here:
Barnes and Noble , Amazon, Amazon Kindle

This post will be up all week so thank you so much for reading! Happy March!!!

Cucumbers are Cool.

Bloggie friends!

Not much happening in Old Kitty’s world so here is Charlie and his attempt at showing some Christmas spirit!

Charlie says: I wear Santa hat for nobody.

And here is my attempt at more Bad Poetry!
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Avoid like the plague by Old Kitty

Such a stick in the mud
Was Brian, the boy next door
And worse was his good for nothing brother!

But they were thick as thieves
And did exactly what was said on the tin
And were over the moon when I legged it.

Just as well I didn't peg it.

:-)
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The above is my entry to the gorgeous Madeleine’s Cool as a Cucumber Blogfest – a feast of more clichés you could shake a stick at!

Deck the halls with boughs of holly – tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaa!

Old Kitty sighs at her lack of metaphor prowess

“The pages rustled like a lot of pigeons taking flight”
(From Terry Pratchett’s “I Shall Wear Midnight”, pp. 301)

The above is why I know I’ve got so much to learn with this writing stories malarkey!

I would never have created such a metaphor. Never in a million years!

Can you see and hear it bloggie friends?

I can hear the rustling of what must be the pages of a very big, very thick book. I can see the pages go whoosh and slap and feel the air disturbed as I would when caught in the middle of a flock of pigeons taking sudden flight!

The whole metaphor is so deceptively simple yet effective.

Sigh.

Charlie says: I too am deceptively simple yet effective. Ask Mr Klingon birdie!

Such fun with yesterday’s Star Trek blogfesting – thank you everyone and lovely Ellie! Yay!

She cannae take it!

Bloggie friends!

Why do they make snacks look like cute and cuddly baby bears?!!?


See? I may love my snacks, but I also eat my greens! :-)

Now bloggie friends! The lovely Ellie Garrat will be hosting a Star Trek As We Know It blogfest on 22 August. All you have to do is list 5 of your all time favourite Star Trek things – characters, episodes – anything – and why!

I just had to sign Charlie up cos he’s a Trekker Kitty through and through.

Charlie says: I see Klingon birdie. Phasers set to stun.


Have a brilliant weekend everyone!

Gibber me timbers!

Bloggie friends!



See that blank word doc behind Charlie? I'm hoping to fill it with gibberish over the weekend!! And not just any ol gibberish - but writerly gibberish! :-)

Will it be for Madeleine's Flowing Fonts blogfest? Or more bad poetry? Or will Charlie scupper my bestest writer-ly intentions by his determination to distract me with his utter cuteness?!?!

Watch this space bloggie, watch this space!

It's Friday!!! It's Friday!!! Notice my huge empty pint glass too? Cheers!!!
:-)

Blast from the Past

Bloggie friends !!!!

photo credit

One of my favourite writerly method is to keep a scrapbook of images of places, faces, etc to create a visual representation of my fictionalised world.

The above is the delectable Barbara Stanwyk.

Thank you so much for reading my blogfest entry - I really appreciate it!!! Thank you Summer Ross for the opportunity!

Charlie says: While you blather on about this and that, I play with my string!

Happy Thursday everyone!

Out and In!

Blogfest time bloggie friends! But this is short n sweet so please don’t go away! LOL!

I am to post the last sentence of one of my stories from 2010 and the beginning sentence of one of my new stories written in 2011 (further details of the fest found here).

The following is my entry:

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“Now I am hungry,” the voice said as the green haze consumed him, “And I need to feed.”

Sidney Marshall loved the flicks but he never thought he’d fall for someone the spit of Barbara Stanwyk.

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Thanks to lovely Summer Ross of My Inner Fairy and happy birthday to you!

Charlie says: While you blogfest away, I stare at this handsome fellow staring at me!


Have a wassup Wednesday everyone!

In the Bleak Midwinter

Snow flakes settle down
We shiver in winter’s grip
Puddles ice over

Trees stand bare and shorn
Plants shrivel from the cold air
Birdsong falls silent

The above haiku attempts are for the lovely Madeleine's Let's Haiku blogfest over at Scribble and Edit! She's got an excellent tutorial on how to Haiku!

Charlie says: I would like to hold a Snack Time blogfest, starting now.

Have a snoring Sunday everyone!

7 oh-my-gosh-really???-days to Christmas!!

Thank you for reading and I hope you didn't mind me ambushing y'all with my bad poetry! Thank you!

A Christmas Tale

The Mistletoe Wish

Under the mistletoe I stood
Looking glam and gorgeous and good
Got a gym membership and ate diet food
Did up my hair to get in the mood
Dreamt of Prince Charming who perhaps would
Sweep me off my feet as I know he should.
Instead I’m assailed by drunken colleagues, so rude!
Work Christmas do’s ain’t the place for finding such dudes!

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So endeth my very bad poetry entry to the lovely Ellie's Christmas Tales Blogfest!

Charlie says: Be so kind as to wrap my pressie in proper wrapping paper thank you.

And here is a key courtesy of the fab Madeleine to all you lovelies who read my Through the Keyhole blog entry!

Have a scintillating Sunday everyone!

13 days to Christmas!

A Shopping Experience

“You’re not buying a Cuisinart Soup Blender, you are buying a status symbol,” says a presenter in one of these fabulous shopping channels!

I always knew soup was good for you!!!!

Charlie says: I spot a snack spider!

Bloggie friends!! Thank you all so much for reading my Through the Keyhole entry yesterday!!!! You are all so lovely!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!

Who owned The Garden? The narrator's very elderly parents!

Have a tuneful Thursday everyone!!

16 nailbiting days to Christmas

Through the Keyhole with Brian

The divine Ms Madeleine's Through the Keyhole blogfest's rules are:

Describe someone's living space in no more than 500 words so that we can vividly imagine the absent person. Then guess from the descriptions posted the type of who lives in a room like this?

This is my entry (it kinda very loosely follows the rules. Ahem!):

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The Garden

The first thing you will notice is the apple tree. It stands at nearly ten feet tall in the middle of sorry tufts of bits of lawn clinging around the tiny garden space.

Two sheets of wood panelling fence the back with slats broken and rotted through.

Green chicken wire encloses either side, but wind and rain and neglect have bent and misshapen them.

Rosebushes edge the borders. Their days of giving lush cream and red pink blooms are long gone. Unchecked they’ve grown gnarled and woody.

You wonder how small the garden truly is once the tree is cut.

I can tell you with certainty that a child could run from one end of the garden and back in the kitchen in 15 seconds flat.

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I wrote the above with the very modern idea that a garden is so an extension of one's living space. *looks shifty and then runs away!*

Charlie says: I live here with my own palm tree and fevvers!

For a lovelier story not related to the blogfest, please do read "Trees of Life - a Christmas Story" by Brian of Brian's Home. He is one talented and amazing kitty!

Have a wispy Wednesday everyone!
17 frivolous days to Christmas!

RED ALERT! RED ALERT!

Bloggie friends!!

I’ve been writing. Creative writing! Yes I have!

I joined a couple of writerly blogfests and hope to ambush you all with my scribblings this week.

You have been warned!!!

Suspend all incredulity and eye rolling to the ceiling!!!!

Cancel all lectures, Christmas shopping, pencil and pen biting and marvel as to why I was voted “girl most likely to have a zit growing on her nose on a monthly basis”.

Ahem.

Charlie says: I am so blinded by the spot on your conk I have to scratch myself!

My offerings will be:

A very bad but very seasonal poem of 64 words for the lovely Ellie’s Christmas Tales blogfest. (for 12th December)

A 124 word "who lives here?!?!" narrative for Ms Maddocks' Through the Keyhole blogfest.
(er... any day this week!)

Love you all! Do join in if you wish (click on links for more info!)
19 preposterous days to Christmas!!!

Happy Monday!

Surreal Workstations at 10 months

Sunday morning at the Lost Property office of Liverpool Street Station:

Me: Excuse me but has a pink umbrella been handed in?
Man behind the desk: What colour was it?
Me: Er. Pink.
Man rummages through cardboard box, picks one and shows me.
Me: Er, that’s a black brolly.
Man rummages through cardboard box, picks another and shows me.
Me: That’s more a polka dot red.
Man: How big was the umbrella?
Me: It’s a foldable brolly about a foot long.
Man goes round the back and returns with a fine bunch of golfing umbrellas all bigger than me.

Charlie says: Here is the silly human’s workspace for nice Summer’s Show Your Workplace Blogfest! I am refusing to move until she hands me the keys to the front door.

Bloggie friends!! Today my blog is…… 10 months young!! WHOOPEEEE!

Have a magnificent Monday eveyone!

Spooky stools (sorry!)

Before you read on Bloggie friends, this is rated xxx and comes with a health warning!!

So my doctor puts me on a new type of prescription.

And of course I read the little folded up paper that comes with medications and this is what it says as “possible side effects” of this drug:

Very common: (affects more than 1 user in 10) Flatulence (wind), constipation, abnormal stools.

??!?!?!?!??!

Charlie says: Hence the importance of drainage covers.

On a cleaner note: there are a couple of pictorial blogfests going round that I just know you might want to join cos it’s pictures and sounds ever so much fun to do!!!

Gorgeous Summer of … and this time concentrate is holding a “Show your space” blogfest. Basically you just put up a pic of where you do your blogging/writing/scribbling etc! Details here! Yay!

Adorable Hansel of The World of Hansel is holding a Spooktacular (link clickable) competition. Basically you dress up/photoshop/snap kitty or doggie or whatever pet you have looking spooky!!

Charlie went in for this, the silly cat! Here he is amongst the cutest most loveliest Halloween kitties and doggies!

Have a manic Monday everyone!