A ‘Verse Full of Scum begins today

Feb 24, 2008

Actually, I almost forgot, but thankfully my sense returned in time. How could I even begin to forget such an important day? Yes, today is the launch of my serial novella A ‘Verse Full of Scum. If you go to the Serial Novella page (fourth button down on the...

It annoys me, so it probably annoys you too

Feb 21, 2008

It really bothers me when people have no idea when or how to use a certain kind of punctuation, so they overcompensate. There’s a lot of it about, but probably the two worst offenders in this category are apostrophes and quotation marks. Well, actually, the...

A Word from my sister-in-law

Feb 17, 2008

I got this email from my sister-in-law, Bogna. Speaking of amusing signs, here’s one we saw in Bombala, on the way between Lake’s Entrance and Broulee. They have a war memorial swimming pool in town, which is in itself quite amusing. I imagine that the...

There’s been a change

Feb 14, 2008

But hopefully none of you have noticed. If you look at the address bar of your browser, you’ll notice that this site is now at the url www.alanbaxteronline.com rather than where it used to be at www.alanbaxter.info. This has happened for a couple of reasons, but...

I told you I was going to be busy

Feb 11, 2008

But there’s always time for a funny sign. We went out to the Marconi Club in Bosley Park to do a Chinese New Year performance last night. While we were waiting to start I noticed this sign. You might want to think twice about leaving your preschoolers with these...