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Royal Mail to issue individual stamps for Gold medal Paralympians

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

  Again, I don’t often report breaking news but this is quite something. if you saw my earlier post about the Royal Mail and its decision to produce individual stamps for Olympian gold medallists but group-only ones for Paralympians, you’ll be as delighted as I am to hear they’ve changed their minds.  Paralympians now will have their own individual stamps to commemorate what will be the most extraordinary achievements over the next few weeks. Well done everyone who posted everywhere, joined the conversation, tweeted up a storm, and critically, sat down and made this decision. Here’s Royal Mail’s statement.   Continue reading Royal Mail to issue individual stamps for Gold medal Paralympians

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‘Five Shades for Greg’ now loose on the blog

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Five Shades for Greg  I pulled him closer, my hands almost greedily devouring his body. I had to get this right. I had to make these darned things fit around the bulging muscles of his arms and, oh my, the bulging muscles in his thighs. I would think about his bulging manhood later, right now I had to concentrate like I’d never concentrated before. I pressed my lips together into a hard line and rolled my eyes. It was going to be hard, very hard – and that was a promise! I smothered a smirk. ‘Stand up, Greg,’ I ordered. … Continue reading ‘Five Shades for Greg’ now loose on the blog

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Paralympics, gold medals, and Royal Mail stamps

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I don’t often get involved in twitter or Facebook campaigns but yesterday I re-tweeted a message asking if it was true that, unlike the Olympians, Paralympic gold medallists would not be getting special stamps in their honour. This resulted in a flood of further re-tweets and so I put out a tweet of my own for Royal Mail to elaborate, then I went off to investigate. The Royal Mail Stamps and Collectibles Facebook page seemed a good place to post a message and so I asked again, did Royal Mail really mean to deny to Paralympians the accolade accorded their able-bodied colleagues? … Continue reading Paralympics, gold medals, and Royal Mail stamps

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‘Five Shades for Greg’ Ether Books competition NOW!

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Shameless bandwagoning, but then it’s a competition and I’m going as low as it’s possible to go! I don’t need to win, in fact I’m competing within the Ether stable for the WOTSA (the Worst Olympic Themed something or other I can’t recall). Frankly, I’d just like to avoid being the UK Eurovision entry with a download tally of nul points. So if you have an iPhone or an iPad, you could chalk up a couple of downloads for FREE and you don’t even have to read the blighter! You can get the iPhone/iPad app from Ether Books . The competition … Continue reading ‘Five Shades for Greg’ Ether Books competition NOW!

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You have to hope transparency would address behaviours of this kind, but it is alarming to think people feel the practice is acceptable. It isn’t. At best, good work doesn’t see the light of day and at worst, life-changing, world-changing, innovation is suppressed. We are better than that, surely? Continue reading

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Margaret Hill 1924-2012

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

If anyone is pulling the strings of the Higgs-Boson, it’s my mother. She had been trying to figure out the universe, or at least where the perimeter fence might be, since she was a child, and she died the week the H-B put in an appearance. No coincidence. It couldn’t have been easy, speculating on space and time and what might be ‘out there’ when your education and social position told you to keep your eyes lowered and get good at knitting. Mum was born into an Irish catholic family that had come over to Yorkshire to escape the potato famine, and set its roots in a Bradford pub called the Harp of … Continue reading Margaret Hill 1924-2012

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‘Dissolution’ – an unidentified literary object

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

    Dissolution “Knot in the Ribbon at the Edge of the Solar System ‘Unties’” ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2010)   The threads of thought fall back; swooping, sliding through the slippery pockets of her mind, And wisping out into emptiness, like late dreams at dozing dawn. The Artist asks the Scientist, ‘What is this? Where is it going?’ But the Scientist is silent as a secret. Deserted by intellect and structure, she is silent. It will come right. She draws algorithms With light.   The threads make pace, make mass; amass in their hundreds, thousands, billions. Then Weave, coalesce, around … Continue reading ‘Dissolution’ – an unidentified literary object

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‘If it ain’t broke …’ now an i/Phone/Pad/Pod/Thing download

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

If it ain’t broke …’ has been on This Personal Space since May 20th, 2012 and now I am very pleased to announce its availability as an iPhone/iPad download from Ether Books, 12/07/12. A brave decision by Ether – not everyone would take the risk of featuring a story whose main character is a man with Down’s Syndrome, especially one who doesn’t live up to the stereotype of happy, smiley but ultimately helpless dependent. The app and the download are free. If you felt so inclined, you could take a look and maybe even give it a star or two? Jolly good. Continue reading ‘If it ain’t broke …’ now an i/Phone/Pad/Pod/Thing download

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