Special Delivery

I had a phone call at work today on my mobile. Nothing particularly unusual about that, except for the fact that it was from the Off Licence three doors along the High Road from the pharmacy below the Athenaeum Club >Gasp!<

"Is that Mr Bryan?" I was asked, "Well, yes, it's Bryan Lea."

"The postman has left a book for you here. You can pick it up anytime, we are open until 10.30."

I must say that it is very decent of them; I guessed what the package must be as I know the supplier has a habit of sticking the addressee's phone number under the address. Given the fact that this is a replacement package, I find myself wondering if someone else on the High Road agreed to take delivery a couple of months ago, of the original, but couldn't be arsed to tell me?

I did find a delivery note from UPS awaiting me when I got home. Whoever had filled it out had used what looked like a poor attempt at cuneiform. Had I not already known what it was trying to tell me, I should probably not have been able to decipher it. As it is, there is a cryptic reference to the pharmacy, so I may pop in there tomorrow and investigate...

Very odd.

But I have my book and I am mightily pleased.

Special Delivery

I had a phone call at work today on my mobile. Nothing particularly unusual about that, except for the fact that it was from the Off Licence three doors along the High Road from the pharmacy below the Athenaeum Club >Gasp!<

"Is that Mr Bryan?" I was asked, "Well, yes, it's Bryan Lea."

"The postman has left a book for you here. You can pick it up anytime, we are open until 10.30."

I must say that it is very decent of them; I guessed what the package must be as I know the supplier has a habit of sticking the addressee's phone number under the address. Given the fact that this is a replacement package, I find myself wondering if someone else on the High Road agreed to take delivery a couple of months ago, of the original, but couldn't be arsed to tell me?

I did find a delivery note from UPS awaiting me when I got home. Whoever had filled it out had used what looked like a poor attempt at cuneiform. Had I not already known what it was trying to tell me, I should probably not have been able to decipher it. As it is, there is a cryptic reference to the pharmacy, so I may pop in there tomorrow and investigate...

Very odd.

But I have my book and I am mightily pleased.

The written word

It’s odd how even in a short period of time, your memory can play you wrong.

Having received (finally) my copy of NWO Transylvania from the printers, I have taken a very quick moment to reacquaint myself with some old friends. The interesting thing is how few of the characters I contributed to that volume; in my memory there were more.

( Hereafter there is to be found a long and largely pointless retrospective and introspective waffle about writing, which you should feel free to skip )

The written word

It’s odd how even in a short period of time, your memory can play you wrong.

Having received (finally) my copy of NWO Transylvania from the printers, I have taken a very quick moment to reacquaint myself with some old friends. The interesting thing is how few of the characters I contributed to that volume; in my memory there were more.

( Hereafter there is to be found a long and largely pointless retrospective and introspective waffle about writing, which you should feel free to skip )