NaNoWriMo 2008

Now that we’re into October, I need to start thinking about whether I want to take part in NaNoWriMo next month. I intended and wanted to last year, but unfortunately my idea didn’t get off the ground and so I didn’t get past the first couple of days. So this year I have a couple [...]

In the event of nuclear attack…

Details have been released today as to what the BBC would have broadcast had Britain been attacked with nuclear weapons at the height of the cold war in the 1970s. Advice would have included water conservation, ekeing out food supplies for a fortnight and staying in your own home.
(You can listen to a radio news [...]