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I established this site a year ago on 2^nd December 2008. Since that date, it has received more than 2500 visitors. I look on this as a real success - my previous home page received less than about 600 visitors in the 5 years or so it was up.

After much thought, trial and tribulation, I am planning a number of changes to the site in the New Year. Before then, and as the site has been rather static for a while now, I have decided to try turning the front page into an advent calendar. I hope to be able to offer visitors something new behind each of the doors from the 1^st to 24^th December.

Elin, Artwiculation and Desperate Days

This infernal Twitter game, artwiculate, has certainly stimulated (or diverted) some of my inspiration. It’s an enjoyable little challenge to come up with a 140-character sentence that uses whatever artwiculate has designated “word of the day”, but some days it’s easier than others. On the more difficult days there is a temptation to try too hard, to run off down byways of alliteration or to invent cryptic anagrams.

From: At the Quill

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well is not one of Shakespeare’s more frequently performed plays, but I still surprised myself by not recognising the story. That can only mean I’d never read it before, let alone seen it performed. Which was something I felt a bit embarrassed about when I realised it, just before the play started. You see, I had been waxing eloquent to friends in an attempt to persuade more people to come along to see the play with me. ”What’s it about,” they asked, and I obliged with a résumé of a play I now realise was A Winter’s Tale.

From: The Supercargo's Commonplace Book

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24^th December 2009