100 Ways to Die in Space – # 12 Spacecraft Failure

Welcome to 100 Ways to Die in Space Hi there bloggies, welcome to a new and fun little feature - 100 ways to die in space. Taking inspiration from a million ways to die in the west I'll be taking a somewhat tongue in cheek at the many and various ways that space is somewhat …

Space Art – Saturn and the Distant Sun

As part of my aim to create more art in both digital and traditional ways I wanted to re-create the space scene that I use quite a lot on my site and see how well I could make it using what I had. Unlike the previous times I have created planet rings I didn't take …

100 Ways to Die in Space – # 11 Getting left behind

Welcome to 100 Ways to Die in Space Hi there bloggies, welcome to a new and fun little feature - 100 ways to die in space. Taking inspiration from a million ways to die in the west I'll be taking a somewhat tongue in cheek at the many and various ways that space is somewhat …

Letter to Myself – Open Next Year (2022)

For those of you I haven’t yet caught – Happy new year to you! Those of you that have been followers for some time will know that this is something that I take part in early in the new year, I take a look at my latter for last year and write myself a letter …

Blog Orbit – Blog Date January 2021

Hello there bloggies! Happy new year to you all, I hope you had a good Christmas. Here we are in 2021 and we made it, the shit show of last year is still with us at least here in the UK and I will more than likely be stuck at home for the foreseeable. But …

Color Sketching an Alfa Romeo

I've had a picture of this car for ages, it's so bright and red and the shine on it was amazing - I wanted to draw it or at least have a go. I don't know why it's one of those itches I think someone who does art gets...This is how it went. I got …

100 Ways to Die in Space – #10 Radiation

Welcome to 100 Ways to Die in Space Hi there bloggies, welcome to a new and fun little feature - 100 ways to die in space. Taking inspiration from a million ways to die in the west I'll be taking a somewhat tongue in cheek at the many and various ways that space is somewhat …

The ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn | NASA

Saturn, top, and Jupiter, below, are seen after sunset from Shenandoah National Park, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Luray, Virginia. The two planets are drawing closer to each other in the sky as they head towards a “great conjunction” on December 21, where the two giant planets will appear a tenth of a degree apart.Credits: …

100 Ways to Die in Space – # 9 Sucked out of an Airlock

Welcome to 100 Ways to Die in Space Hi there bloggies, welcome to a new and fun little feature - 100 ways to die in space. Taking inspiration from a million ways to die in the west I'll be taking a somewhat tongue in cheek at the many and various ways that space is somewhat …

Blog Orbit – Blog Date December 2020

Hi there bloggies, here were are on the last straight zooming towards the final hurdle of 2020 - we are in December. How has this actually happened? I can imagine for some of you this year has been a slow and plodding affair but for me I'm still in March.I hope you're all keeping well …

My 50K Words Challenge Completed – Just

I finally got there! 50K words.... breathe that in for a moment. Fifty, thousand words.... in a month. What a challenge it was and although I feel I've achieved something it's the challenge that I've benefited from, it's been hard and it's hurt a bit and I got something out of it. Stories and characters …

Where I’ve been, Nanowrimo and Writing

Hello bloggies, you might have noticed I've not been about much this month, I was hoping to be able to get on here a bit more but my time has been taken up with my Nanowrimo project. What this basically means is that rather than writing blog posts, I've been cranking out about 1600 words …