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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Voyager 1 left the region of space that's influenced by our Sun known as the Heliopause back in March 2013. Now, Voyager 2's instruments have been detecting a change in the plasma background in its region of space leading NASA to believe that in the coming months Voyager 2 will be the second man made... Continue Reading →
Doctor Who landed on British TV last night to much anticipation. What I would like to say first this there are no real spoilers in this for those in other parts of the world where it lands next week. Firstly as anyone who hasn't been living on Mars for over year will know it's a... Continue Reading →
Hi there bloggies! How are you guys all doing? Sorry I missed last weeks orbit, things are getting up and down here and sometimes I have time to write a little and sometimes it's like... Meh. This ain't happening! Anyway, today is about this coming week and what's been going on, who saw the new... Continue Reading →
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Good day to you! If you’ve missed out on the announcement, the BlogBattle is back! Yes, yes it is. And now is the time to write your story for October so everyone can read and enjoy it throughout the month and in the future.
And here is this month’s word:
Of course, the best place to connect and get dialed in for the battles is at our BlogBattlers WordPress Blog: https://blogbattlers.wordpress.com/2018/10/02/cave/ where you’ll meet some of the other writers, have access to links to past stories and see the current word for each month.
I procrastinated last month (I’m going to blame it on the beginning of school for my kids and all the added chaos of afterschool activities. ;)) and didn’t get a story written, which is super sad! So, my advice is to spend this week writing your story! Next week on Tuesday we’ll start posting links…
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A tiny dwarf planet being called the Goblin which has an extremely elongated orbit has be found and is giving astronomers further insight into the mysterious 'Planet X' which is believed to exist far beyond the orbit of Pluto. The Goblin is only about 300km across and so far out it's too faint to see... Continue Reading →
