Sat, 21:23 : Today's #NaNoWriMo work finished with the sentence, "Chippenham awaits in all its exotic glory." I think I'm going mad. Sat, 21:46 : RT @chakrabortty: Of course, in a parallel world, the BBC D-G would simply declare this to be "the most humble day of my life" and carry ... Sat, 22:19 : Someone whose work I greatly enjoy is turning out to be a bit of a reactionary arse on Twitter. It's like Orson Scott Card all over again. Sun, 10:27 : Dreamt I was chatting to James Coburn, which was nice. Woke up to remember he's dead, which isn't. Sun, 10:59 : For folk in the UK, you may wish to know that it's almost 11:00am. Sun, 11:21 : My dad was radio op in a Churchill tank. He was lucky & came home. A lot of his mates didn't. That's one of the things I think about today.