The Enemy Within the Rings

I  re-wrote my blog battle story "The Enemy Within the Rings" so it had all the detail I wanted. Have a look: https://universeofpossibility.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/the-enemy-within-the-rings/ Enjoy! Simon 🙂

The Enemy within the Rings

This story had been written for on of my blog battles, but in my usual way had bitten off more than I could chew. So this is the longer version of the story that I had originally envisaged: The Enemy within the Rings "Slowing the ship to enter Saturn's orbit" was Hudson's voice in Commander …

Who is Rachael Ritchey?

Who is Rachel Ritchey? Why do you as bloggies need to know? Simple answer is Rachael Ritchey is a story person. She writes, them and encourages other to write them. She supports, helps and nurtures those who take up their metaphorical pen to write. Rachael runs the weekly Blog Battles where writers pitch against each …

Martian Selfies

The curiosity rover on Mars takes some brilliant selfies... the first vain robot and it's on Mars! Simon 🙂 Credit: NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20316/curiosity-self-portrait-at-martian-sand-dune

Hitchikers Guide to the Glaxy Quote

Just don't. Simon 🙂 No ownership claimed on images. Found on Google.

WordPress, Will You Be My Valentine?

There's a Rose on a mission here - give here a hand by having a look over her blog and following if you like! 🙂

Life Hacks – Symbols Short Cuts

  Ever wondered how to get all the symbols you need without going throught the mills:   Simon 🙂

The Language of Star Wars(Aurebesh)

There is a language used in Star Wars that I hadn't realised until recently. Well really it's an alphabet which converts English. It's called the the Aurebesh alphabet and you can see it below: This is so geeky and cool, I want to find a font for it so that I can write a short …

NASA’s Van Allen Probes Revolutionize View of Radiation Belts

There's nothing like deep space discovery to excite. But when we look closely at our own world, we get surprises too. Things don't work quite as we thought they did and expand our understanding. The Van Allen belts are more complicated than we thought they were and I love the analogy of music used to …

On the Brink of Midnight #BlogBattle # Scifi

This weeks blog battle carries on where we left off.  The blog battles are a short story clash of the bloggers run by Rachael Ritchey. Go look at her blog, read about it and join in if you like. Rules: 1000 words max fictional tale (or true if you really want) PG (no more than PG-13) …

The Pink Earphones

I've written this as a story submission for Georgie Girl's writing competition. I hope you all enjoy it, it's a bit of a deviation from my usual stories: The Pink Earphones Working in an office has always been dull for me. Sure I love what I do, but I can't sit in the office all …

Funny – Bad negotiator

Have a fun filled day! Simon 🙂 Credit: Dilbert.com