The Shepherd – Drafted (3, 4 & 5)

1st December 2011

Chapter 3 Straker lay still once Shroeder had finished his tests, too weary to do anything other than observe through half-closed eyes as the doctor moved around the small room, talking in a quiet voice to the nurse. He was aware of the weight of blankets on his body, a somewhat familiar sensation and he roused himself to look for Rebecca, wondering where she was, why she had not spoken…

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Moonbase

1st December 2011

I do a considerable amount of art work with the different pupils that I teach and I like to work on something at the same time as they are drawing or whatever ( it makes the atmosphere in my classroom much more relaxed). For the last few weeks I have been working on a picture of Moonbase. I like the geometry of Moonbase and the contrasts between light and shade….

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REVIEW: Red

1st December 2011

Hmm. I am not an anime fan … don’t really know much about it (well, I can’t know EVERYTHING can I!). So an anime/UFO crossover poses some problems with me. I don’t mind crossovers as long as they are well written and the characters are believable ( Oh, and the situation is believable – I simply couldn’t read – without hysterical laughter, a crossover such as UFO/Murder She Wrote or…

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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…

1st December 2011

Dear Herald Readers, First of all, let me apologise for not bringing this issue to you earlier. You may have read about the recent discovery of an Earth-like planet that might possibly support life. Kepler-22b was initially discovered by our research team in 2009 and we have been working with the senior scientists in NASA to investigate the possibility that this planet, roughly two and a half times the size…

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Why Write Thunderbirds?

1st December 2011

For someone that doesn’t even remember watching the Thunderbirds on television, I honestly have no idea how I started writing it. A quick explore sent me stumbling into the fandom, and before I knew it, I had fallen victim. Hours upon hours of reading gave me enough of the characteristics of the boys to start to know how people wrote them. Then, of course, it was borrowing the boxset off…

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CeCe’s Biography of Michael Billington

1st December 2011

Michael Hornby Billington was born on 24th December 1941 at the Springfield Maternity Home in Blackburn Lancashire. For the first eighteen months of his life, Michael lived at 6 Kelsall Avenue with his older sister, Marilyn, and parents Eric and Helena until the family moved to London. Cinema fascinated the young Michael Billington. Michael not only enjoyed watching every movie he could at the local cinema, musicals being his favourites,…

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