Halloween – The Ghost Called Bob #4

After three years of my little Halloween stories - I thought Bob's story should carry on! r Bob got up to more tricks in year two and yet more frolics last year.   It's at this time of year when the nights draw in, the swirling mist leaks around the village and when the children go …

Digital Art with GIMP – Creating Planet Rings

Gimp - Gnu Image Manipulation Program, an open source program that like Photoshop is able to do amazing things with graphics and photo's. Unlike Photoshop it costs nothing and it's feature set is still comparable. This is a series of posts I've created on how Gimp can be used to help create worlds and give …

WHY OTHER WRITERS ARE YOUR FRIENDS…AND NOT YOUR COMPETITION

A while ago I had  been trying to get some great blogging writers to guest post here on Planet Simon and last week I got a great surprise Ari Meglen sent me a surprise guest post. I was dead chuffed! Ari runs the #MerryWriters tag game on Twitter which is really useful to meet other …

Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit -Blog Date 44-2018

Hi there bloggies! Another week begins and another blog obit comes around again. I awake today to find frost outside - that's right, frost! I know we get hung up that it's 'only' October but you know, it catches you by surprise. In any case, this really is now the slippery slope to Christmas with …

The Celestial Temple

This short piece has been written for the October 2018 Blog Battle. If you need to find out more please click: Blog Battle - October 2018 The word for this month is CAVE.        Like a dream I could see the cave, carved into the side of a mountain, looking into it I saw …

Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit -Blog Date 43-2018

Hi there bloggies! Another week begins and another blog obit comes around again. For myself in the UK I can't help but notice the leaves falling for the trees, the moisture on the windscreen in the mornings and that chill in the air. Autumn is definitely here and it looks like winter could be damn …

Digital Art with GIMP – Creating Planets

Gimp - Gnu Image Manipulation Program, an open source program that like Photoshop is able to do amazing things with graphics and photo's. Unlike Photoshop it costs nothing and it's feature set is still comparable. This is a series of posts I've created on how Gimp can be used to help create worlds and give …

Sunshine Blogger Award

Thank you to  Preety of the Get Your Own Style blog for nominating me for the Sunshine blogger award. I've only been following Preety's blog a short time but it's got a great style of it's own and there's some great work in there so make sure you have a look. The Rules: Thank the …

Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit -Blog Date 42-2018

Hi there bloggies! How are you guys all doing? I'm hopefully managing to get a bit more blog time in, meaning this week you get my weekly orbit. Last week was a bit of a bumper week, I got a number of posts out, the most important to note was the concluding part of the …

The Great Galactic Service Station – The Conclusion

After a few weeks of aliens coming in and out of the station it was like the Great Galactic Service Station had always been there. Ralph had become acquainted with a vast number of alien life forms and he had also managed to keep the ketchup off his uniform. The galactic emperor had drafted in …

Let’s Connect with the fun Writers Tag

My friend and fellow writer Ari and her friend Lorraine have created the fun writers tag as she says: "Being a writer can be a lonely business.  So we thought we’d create the Writers Tag to get the ball rolling and in a fun way, introduce each other to all the wonderful writers who blog." Ari was …

Connected Universe -The possibilities of existence

This post is another one of my big thinking posts, a lot of it is about how my thinking around creation / religion and God had changed. Don't get me wrong here, there are no answers to this and it's likely I never will find the answers but generally I'm talking about observation of the …