I wanted a nano, and instead I have to write a novel.

Due to a confusion on the web-site (NaNoWriMo) I am not getting an extremely small mp3 player after all, and instead I've signed up to write a novel in a month. Well, 50,000 words.

This gives me a chance to get my Sergio Leone/Hunter S Thompson/Laurel and Hardy tribute written, which has ben niggling at me ever since my friend Bill ranted so entertainingly about why Fantasy is in such a bad way...

At the moment I know that it's got two main characters, someone has an impotency curse laid on him in chapter one, it features a stable lad who is not a secret darling of destiny, and a character called The Man With The Map.

Does that count as an outline?

Oh, and it's going to be called "Never Apologise, Never Explain", since I'll have no time to re-write or edit myself...

Gym Report For then wot wants to know

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Fashion Update From the Gent's Locker-room

Just in case you want to know, Ladies, this year the average male gym-goer is wearing his hair thick, black and matted, mostly on the back but in some cases covering the entire body...

This explains why "Locker-cams" are not a problem I have to worry about...