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…
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…
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…
Why Write Thunderbirds?
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…
CeCe’s Biography of Michael Billington
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,…
The Shepherd – Drafted (Prologue, Chapters 1 & 2)
Prologue ‘Alec?’ The voice was hesitant, and held a dark note of fear but it was enough to make Alec Freeman turn with joy to the man sitting beside him. Just that one word, that one name was sufficient to crack the shield that had safeguarded Straker from the events that had precipitated his nightmare. He leaned forward, head in his hands as he remembered the underground garage space, and…
Furlough Woes
Dr Jackson is still ‘seconded’ to McMurdo Sound and the role of Problem Page ‘Uncle’ for this month has been taken over by Cmdr Straker. Dear Dr. Jackson, My girlfriend and I are planning to go away together on holiday for a month, in April next year. I really fancy a trek through the Amazon jungle , whereas she wants to idle the time away on a beach in Spain….
Commander Ed Straker reads your stars:
Commander Ed Straker reads your stars: The October horoscope: Pluto re-enters with a vengeance this month. Havoc ensues as its near collision with Sedna affects all the rest of the planets, throwing all the forecasts into complete disarray. I accept no responsibility for the accuracy of these forecasts, as the events out in the darkest reaches of the Solar System are likely to inadvertently alter my readings. Capricorn: 22nd Dec…
Shuttle from Kill Straker!
The Shuttle from Kill Straker! I was teaching a pupil about using pastels and chalks and started doing this piece to explain how I use them. I think that I should have done it on a smoother piece of black paper instead of A4 black card, which has a rough texture and therefore doesn’t ‘hold’ the chalk as well as I would have liked. But, as with all my ‘drawings’…