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A Scottish ferry ride
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I occasionally make reference to the weather in Scotland, where the Tammy stories are set, but regardless of how well weather can be described in writing, nothing beats a ...
shiraz - 2015/01/17 - 1:13pm - 8 comments
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Advance tissue warning
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing You'll be seeing Chapter 28 of Testing Times later today but here's an advance warning for Chapter 29 due on Thursday- heavy duty tissue alert! Get a box in! Get ...
shiraz - 2016/02/13 - 6:17pm - 5 comments
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Almost back to normal
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical Anchored 21 is finally finished! I started it a few weeks ago but haven't had any spare time. In the two weeks +, since we moved in, the place has un ...
shiraz - 2016/06/21 - 5:32pm - 5 comments
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Another election in the UK.... Vote Vote Vote!
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I wrote 'Vote For Amy' for the June 2017 UK General Election and now we have a December vote to look forward to....? This gave me an opportunity to tidy up Vote ...
shiraz - 2019/11/06 - 12:15am - 7 comments
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Bonus Tammy!
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I've just taken a look at a story involving Tammy that I didn't write! Yep, a collaboration! Watch this space! ...
shiraz - 2017/06/01 - 6:09pm - 5 comments
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Broadband issues
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I'm having broadband problems again as my fibre went down sometime last night pb (post Bike). I've spent time today, after teaching my over 50s IT class, trying ...
shiraz - 2015/02/15 - 6:42pm
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Busy week
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical Today's my last day off for a while as I'm involved with a 24hr 'pirate' radio station for the next 2 weeks, co-ordinating the media a ...
shiraz - 2016/07/28 - 9:34am
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Catching up
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I discovered that the last edition of Bike I'd read was just past 2000. Trying to catch up the 300 in the meantime and it's hard work. Loving it again, despite ( ...
shiraz - 2014/07/16 - 12:26am - 3 comments
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Catching up
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical On Friday I travelled South to the town tht for twenty years I worked in, married in and raised two children. I left there eight years ago with a job in d ...
shiraz - 2016/02/22 - 5:03pm - 1 comment
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Damn virus
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical It caught me, I certainly didn't go out looking for the damned virus! I'm fully jabbed so it's just a question of riding it out- sorry for ...
shiraz - 2022/04/01 - 10:50pm - 16 comments
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Deathtrap
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Deathtrap 18 has been published two days later than intended as I wasn't initially happy with my editing. The next chapter should appear on Wednesday and the story en ...
shiraz - 2018/02/28 - 8:00am
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Deathtrap delayed
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Real Life has intervened in the production of Deathtrap! I have been employed as a researcher for someone who is writing their autobiography. ...
shiraz - 2018/01/30 - 9:07pm - 4 comments
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Deathtrap- The Trap Is Sprung
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing The final (for now) Deathtrap chapter has been published today. I'd like to acknowledge the assistance of Alecia Snowfall in the series, not only in those chapters ma ...
shiraz - 2018/03/10 - 9:17am - 6 comments
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Delays to Tammy's Trials
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing An apology to those waiting for Tammy's adventures (and there are plenty of them to come) but I'm engaged in a complete rewrite of Chapter 31 and now see that I& ...
shiraz - 2015/02/22 - 4:44pm - 4 comments
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Eve
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I was going through my files today and came across a folder I clearly hadn't looked in for a few years. I have six unpublished chapters which I will put together as a ...
shiraz - 2017/06/21 - 6:05am - 3 comments
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favourite author
Author: Shiraz heidi's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Has anyone heard from the wonderful Shiraz, I understand that she had RL issues to deal with but do hope that she will return soon. I dont have facebook, has anyone any inf ...
heidi - 2015/09/10 - 6:09pm - 1 comment
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First story re-posted
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I've just published "Human Resources" which first appeared on BCTS in 2011 as "Martha". There's been a major edit/revision of the original te ...
shiraz - 2014/07/17 - 7:57am
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From a Diary to a Novel
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing It's taken some considerable number of months but I've managed to finish the conversion of the short first-person Tammy's Summer Diary into Tammy's Sum ...
shiraz - 2021/07/09 - 11:52am - 2 comments
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Happy New Year
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical Happy New year to everyone, whichever time zone you find yourself in. I rejoined BCTS during 2014 having been absent for a while. I have thoroughly enjoye ...
shiraz - 2015/01/02 - 9:33am - 2 comments
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Holiday reading
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical I'm on the Algarve (Portugal for non-Europeans) and trying to get a tan. I brought a few e-books with me and I'm currently chortling through the ...
shiraz - 2018/04/15 - 12:05pm
