The other side of the riverThe other side of the riverMishaps, musings, more mishaps, writing, comedy sprinkled with a dash of opinion. Oh and free original fiction every Friday. 
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The House - Live now on Aphelion
2007-12-09 20:11:00 My short story “The House ” is now live on Aphelion, you can check it out here: http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/20 07/12/TheHouse.html And while you’re there you should check out GLP’s “The Redoubt“. Enjoy. More About: Horror , Fiction , Live , Dark Fantasy
The Golden Compass AKA Northern Lights
2007-12-09 12:51:00 Let’s be clear: translating a book to the screen is hard, really hard and it shouldn’t be underestimated. Things you can get away with in a book you simply can’t on film for a range of reasons. It’s not the same medium, you have less time and, in some cases, things that are palatable in ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Film , Review , Philip Pullman
Friday Flash Fiction
2007-12-07 19:00:00 So continuing my up-to-the-wire approach to deadlines I have managed to cobble together a Friday Flash Entry. It’s a bit grim, and if you missed last weeks please do check it out. Here’s this week’s entry: Faded Letters By Neil Beynon He sits on the bench staring at the envelope. He does not know what to do. The paper pouch ... More About: Fiction
Blocked
2007-12-07 13:29:00 I’m not sure if there will be a FFF from me today but after last week’s debacle I figured some regular readers may have missed last week’s entry. So here’s a link to be getting on with while I try to remove the worst case of writer’s block I’ve had in ages. Stay tuned - there’ll ... More About: Fiction
Columbo Villian of the Week
2007-12-05 19:58:00 This week?s columbo villian of the week is the original orange man: Robert Kilroy-Silk. Kilroy is best known as the presenter of ?Kilroy?, a daytime talk show that ran for eighteen years in the UK for reasons known to no one I can think of. Kilroy, arguably the person responsible for Jeremy Kyle, managed to get himself ... More About: Week , Columbo
Friday Flash Fiction
2007-11-30 17:54:00 Ok. I’m angry. Really Angry. I wrote the blog and story that follows on Friday , I posted it, I saw it live. I come home tonight from a great night out with friends to discover not only do I have no traffic from it but the damn thing is no longer up. Now I know I ... More About: Flash , Fiction
Columbo Villian of the Week
2007-11-28 12:30:00 Apologies for the lack of CVTW last Wednesday. It was one of those weeks. This week we?re going for political satire, it?s a bold and some would say stupid move. Like trying to sell Northern rock ? ba-boom-tshh! In case you haven?t guessed this week?s CVTW is the Chancellor of the Exchequer: Alastair Darling (unless he?s been ... More About: Week , Columbo
Beowulf
2007-11-27 12:30:00 Normally I post reviews within a few hours of having seen the film but I waited in the case of Beowulf. Why? I needed time to digest it, to consider what I thought and to wonder if I should in fact wait to see it in 3D before making a decision. I still plan to see ... More About: Movies , Angelina Jolie , Entertainment , Film , Review
Off again.
2007-11-25 22:50:00 There hasn’t been much in the way of bloggage over the last week as the bathroom kind of took over. Constant readers will recall that we had some fairly major house issues over the last few months and last weekend was Fix The Bathroom Weekend, it rapidly turned into Fix The Bathroom Week. It is now ... More About: Personal , Life , Travel , Germany , Random
Friday Flash Fiction: Kind of?
2007-11-24 00:14:00 As has become painfully clear to constant readers of this blog, and as exemplified by the woeful lack of a “Columbo Villian of the Week” on Wednesday, life has gotten on top of me. And so this week I find myself - for the first time since I started - running a little dry on ... More About: Flash , Fiction , Random , Friday
Kindling a debate
2007-11-20 21:21:00 Amazon have released the Kindle reigniting the debate over the future of the book pulling in comments from many people such as John Scalzi over at Whatever and Paul Raven over at Velcro City. Meanwhile Neil Gaiman ’s got in on the action, you can check out his thoughts here. Neil makes a pretty compelling argument for ... More About: Technology , Gadgets , Thoughts , Debate
Friday Flash Fiction
2007-11-16 18:11:00 Hmmm. Not sure on this one. Let me know. Amber By Neil Beynon She gazed glassily at him through eyes that did not blink as if she were watching him watching her. Mouth pursed. He knew the expression, he doubted anyone else would. Her words echoed in his head. ?It?s over,? she said. ?It?s not you it?s me?, should have ... More About: Flash , Horror , Fiction , Friday
Night Hawk
2007-11-16 12:49:00 I’m back in the land of Black Cabs, Builder’s Tea and the Fine Art of Chav. Our last day in Hong Kong was funny mish mash of stuff. We had a really cool gentle walk along the beach as well as a paddle in the ocean and I got far too excited about the real life ... More About: Personal , Life , Travel , Thoughts
On The Peak
2007-11-15 13:00:00 So it’s my last day in Hong Kong . We didn’t in the end get to see the Buddha, we were both completely wiped out on Tuesday opting instead to flump around the hotel and small beach. Resolving with some determination to make the most of yesterday. Having gorged ourselves in the breakfast buffet we rolled onto ... More About: Fun , Life , Travel , Mountains
Columbo Villian of the Week
2007-11-14 16:35:00 This week’s Columbo Villian of the Week (note incorrect spelling of Villain is deliberate!) is star of 80s wrestling, WWE hall of famer and VH1 reality TV star Hulk Hogan AKA Terry Bollea. A soft target some might say and they’d be right but I’m on holiday and time is short. Hogan rose to fame in ...
Mega Monday
2007-11-12 13:49:00 Today we shopped. Well no not really, today we looked at shops. Many, many shops. My feet have stopped speaking to me, a good thing, as they would probably just say “Ow” very loudly. Basically Hong Kong can, in many respects, be thought of as a giant shopping mall, an island paradise to the worshipers ... More About: Personal , Life , Travel , Thoughts
Fusion Sunday
2007-11-11 08:02:00 We?ve moved hotels now. For the first few days we were in a hotel in Kowloon but now we?re on Tsing Ye Island on the Gold Coast, it?s quieter but more tourist in nature. The hotel overlooks the sea and a pair of golden dolphins - the fine art of chav not having overlooked the ... More About: Life , Travel , Hong Kong , Random , Thoughts
Don?t trust holy men
2007-11-10 04:43:00 Day two here in Hong Kong and today we’re shifting hotels as G is now officially on holiday. We figured it would help her unwind if we switched to a different hotel - it means a change of scene and less people from her company to be sociable with. My first day was eventful as no ... More About: Trust , Holy
Friday Flash Fiction
2007-11-09 08:25:00 As expected NaNoWriMo is soaking up most of my time at the moment and so this week’s flash is from the backstory of my project. I won’t say more than that for fear of jinxing myself into stopping. Hakon’s Folly By Neil Beynon The body lay on the stone floor, face cast in shock and pain, eyes ... More About: Flash , Fiction , Friday
Hong Kong
2007-11-09 02:57:00 I’m in Hong Kong . I thought about blogging last night but I was just too tired and apparently asking the same questions on an endless loop, G was very amused. The hotel is great, I mean really good and our hotel room overlooks the harbour with a view that at night is just amazing - ... More About: Life , Travel , China , Thoughts
Columbo Villian of the Week
2007-11-07 15:19:00 This week?s Columbo Villian of the week is former giant of American daytime television and current investigative journalist Geraldo Rivera. Rivera actually appeared in a TV murder mystery where he played a character so obnoxious any one of a string of women who had previously fallen for his charms could have bumped him off. It was ... More About: Week
And so it begins
2007-11-04 22:15:00 Well I started. Finally. What, you ask, am I talking about? I am of course referring to National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo and after spending the first three days sat on my arse doing very little save wiping my leaking nose along with a fair bit of feeling sorry for myself I have finally begun ... More About: Fantasy
Friday Flash Fiction
2007-11-02 14:31:00 I struggled a little this week. Various reasons including my own incompetence. If you enjoy my weekly scribblings, and even if you don’t, you should check out some of the other Friday Flash Fiction eers: Gareth Lyn Powell, Paul Raven, Shaun Green, Gareth D. Jones, Martin McGrath, Dan Pawley and Justin Pickard. Anyhow here is my little ...
Columbo Villian of the Week
2007-10-31 18:14:00 I may be accused of going for the low hanging fruit here but I?ve been planning this one since I started this thing. He was very nearly the inaugural Columbo Villian of the Week . Yep that?s right it?s the Squire of Sarcasm, The Earl of Eyebrow: Angus Deayton. Angus was the undisputed king of the sarcastic ...
Eleven
2007-10-30 20:41:00 Regular readers - apologies for the lack of bloggage. There have been a number of reasons for this not least of which has been that I’ve caught another cold and am currently wrapped up on the sofa with a lemsip. Other than hacking my lungs up I’ve been busy writing the first draft of a short ... More About: Personal , Family , Life
Friday Flash Fiction
2007-10-26 19:21:00 A bit rushed again this week. Not sure about it. Thought it sucked as I wrote it. Liked it on the reread and then hated it on editing it. Hope you enjoy - remember you’re free to comment. The New Arrival By Neil Beynon ??Morning,? said the stranger. The guard grunted. ??Spect you ain?t used to much in the way ... More About: Flash , Fiction , Friday
Columbo Villian of the Week
2007-10-24 22:14:00 Columbo villian of the week has proven a success. Les was asked to open a Rubbish tip in Rhyl and Liza was tipped to open a refurbished fancy dress store on the Shaftesbury Avenue. I’ve been chased by a plethora of stars who it would be unkind to name here but suffice to say their ... More About: Humour , Week , Columbo , Liza Minnelli
Wand polishing
2007-10-24 01:00:00 Lets get something straight, Dumbledore is gay. He smokes the pink peace pipe, he prefers his gardening downhill, he plays for the other side, he likes to polish wands and various other euphemisms for prefering wizards to witches. Only he doesn’t. He doesn’t because he’s a fictional character. Interesting news that this is to those who read ... More About: Wand , Polish
Stardust
2007-10-21 20:27:00 After months of waiting and jealously watching blogger after blogger go to see Stardust in the states it finally went on general release in the UK. Yesterday I finally got to see the movie. And it was wonderful. Most regular readers would expect me to say that. I am an unashamed Neil Gaiman fan but it’s ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Film , Fantasy , Review
Saturday Kitchen
More articles from this author:2007-10-20 18:44:00 It’s back, apologies for the missed post last week but life got in the way. This week’s recipe is another ode to soup, my scrummy roast tomato soup: Ingredients A load of plum tomatoes (fresh) Some fresh basil Salt Pepper Olive Oil Sun dried tomatoes This recipe is so easy and so lush I hardly ever buy tinned anymore. Per two people you ... More About: Food , Kitchen , Recipe , Saturday 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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