Pic is link to info/ordering pages for the Haadri books.
Prime Contact, the first Haadri book, second edition.
"Autumnal - nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges
of the day...
Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside
edge of the
senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth - reflecting on itself and through itself,
filtering the light. At
such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere..."
(Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead Act
2: Tom Stoppard)
Autumn...
I love this time of year. I love the colours, the sharp slant of sunlight on the trees, mosaics of acid-yellow and harts-
blood, velvet and
darkness and a haze of mist-grey over the hills. I love its immanence, its mellowness, the tang of frost just around the
corner of the
year...
Watching the little birds in the goat-willow in my garden, I realised something more.
I love this land with a fierce, possessive love, deep-rooted in two thousand years of history. From the frosted beaches
and cloud-brushing peaks of the north to the wind-haunted meanderings of the rivers of the east, from the sensuous
rolling patchworked hills of
the south to the demanding dark moors of the west, this land seeps into bone and blood and synapse, mother of
motley nobility,
culture, individual freedoms. It can be known. It can be understood. It can be felt deep inside.
I love its effortless eccentricities, its vigour and vibrancy, its flawed perfections, its silent strength and tenacious
resilience, its hard-won tolerances and intense and variable beauty, the profound energy in its sacred mythical
landscape.
Home and more-than-home, the forces that shape and protect and bind, in me, as I am in the land. Love returning love
in the stillness
for those who'll only take the time to listen...
(Joules, Autumn 2004)
All photographs taken by Joules unless otherwise specified. All photographs © Joules A Taylor or other
specified
individual.
In Memoriam
17.03.09 - Argent
25.07.08 - Raptor
18.12.07 - Quyn
02.12.06 - Ryme
Currently enjoying:
Muse
Transformers - Bayverse, IDW, Prime, Animated.
Currently reading:
Various Transformers books and graphic novels.
Currently working on:
Heart, The Poppy Tales
Currently chuffed with:
My garden
Currently miffed at:
Nestlé, L'Oréal, Body Shop
Currently maintaining:
Haadri
Jenni Roditi
APAG
BCP
BCAP
Reflex Camera Club
St George Community Centre
Music Inter Alia
Baguette-Me-Not
Blog Pics
I've gathered some of my pages of photos together: the page of links is here. I'll be adding more as time goes
by!
 Evil Squid
A Little Glossary of Taylorspeke
(in no particular order)
[PING] (alt [ping]) - n. A brainwave. The text equivalent of a lightbulb going on blindingly over someone's head. Usually mine. And usually at the most inconvenient of times. [sigh]
TPTB - The Powers That Be.
wulmet - n. A person of little or no talent who somehow inveigles himself into a position where he is in power over other, far more talented people and uses his position to downplay them in order to try to make himself feel superior.
biteable - referring to an anatomical part vb, tasty.
Flatterfed - vb. 27.02.08: my typo for flattered, but since it's so cutely apt I thought it would fit nicely
here. Lutra defined it as "the lovely warm feeling of satisfaction resulting from enthusiastic reviews..." (which I've been
getting for my MB fics).
Composted - vb, 'compos mentis', mentally capable of working. Contrast with
uncomposted or non-
composted, not 'compos mentis', not capable of working, hungover...
Cumbles - n, cucumbers.
Kewp - how Ken says 'thank you'. We rather like Lutra's 'nanx', too...
Musekick - noun, music, without which I cannot work.
'feinne - noun, caffeine, essential for correct mental functioning, especially first thing in the morning. I
prefer mine in the
form of SodaStream Diet Coke. And on that subject...
Skoosh - verb, noun. To skoosh - to add CO2 to a sodastream bottle filled with water to make it
fizzy, prior to adding
Diet Coke syrup (or just drinking as sparkling water). A skoosh - a bottle of water that has been skooshed. Skooshy
- something that
has been skooshed, water, or that whipped cream that comes in tins you have to shake then upend and press the
nozzle...
Shoogle - verb. To shake gently, for example, of roast potatoes in a roasting tin to ensure they're
covered with oil. I
have vague memories of this being a real Scottish colloquialism...
Stegasaurus - n, spider of the genus tegenaria. Why? No idea. I just find it easier, that's
all...
Edit 08.09.07: Lutra thinks that Brian is a good name for a mini-stegasaurus. From now on, any 'Brian's in the posts
may be assumed to be a tegenaria. Except where otherwise specified.
Viterals - noun, vitamins + minerals. Also a pun on victuals.
Splish - verb. A combination of slosh and splash.
Parrots - noun, paracetemol (from the old joke "Why are there no aspirin tablets in the jungle?
Because the parrots eat
'em all...")
Maggles - noun, magpies. As opposed to non-magical people.
Flamewings - noun. Swifts. So called because the first time we became aware of them was an early
summer evening
when they were flying high, the light from the setting sun seemingly turning their wings to flames. Lovely little birds. We
always know
summer's arrived when we hear their high-pitched squeeing.
Murfs - noun, moths.
Peasant cut - noun, roughly cut up into big chunks, e.g. vegetables chopped in a hurry for a
hearty stew or
soup. By extension, anything prepared in a hurry - haircut, material, even a first draft of a story...
Giraffe - noun, a carafe (of wine, coffee or water, for example).
Shrumps - noun, mushrooms.
Splings - noun, Kai's spelling homework: by extension, any spelling.
Tyops - noun, typos. var toyps, typso, psyto, psoyt, etc. Usual result of a dose of the
fingerials (see next
entry).
Fingerials - (pr. fin GEEE ree yalls) noun, fingers that will not type what you want
them to.
Haddock - noun, time, of which I never have enough. (Origin of this term here.)
Sleep - noun? vb? a.k.a. sheeeeeeeeep.... I used to know what this word
meant...
TBS Phone Scam
To anyone who has been a victim of this, like us, see HERE.
Report it to the police, your local Trading Standards office - write to your MP if you feel so inclined. Don't let the
bastards get away
with it!
Update: TBS were featured on BBC1's Watchdog programme. Details here. Page now gone.
For a list of current phishing scams, you could do worse than check out MillerSmiles.
The Updates
Blog
The place to stay notified of WaveWrights' Fiction updates: Zone, Darkside, DarkRealm, Matrix, Vault, Safehouse
13...
Butch, my computer gremlin. Click the pic for larger version, and read his
adventures here...
A gift for me! Butch by the very talented Sylverthorne. Click pic
for larger image.
This is MY haddock. It was caught
exclusively for me by Talon. No, you can't have any. I need
all the haddock I can get!!
 .
A'lestrel - a gift for me from
Valkyrie...
Kood. Constant companion.
Another gorgeous Valkyrie gift for me - Benten the Albino
Alsatian! Click
thumbnail for larger image.
Oekai by Bakayaro Onna - Radittsu at his sexiest...
I now have an Amazon wish list - find it here.
But please be warned most of the things on it are yaoi. If you don't like yaoi, or don't know what it is, you probably
won't want to take a look.
The Zone Plant from
OrganicHTML (which alas no longer seems to exist...)
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Stunning... |
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Check how your text and background colours look together
before releasing them on
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:: Symbols
Exactly what it says |
:: World Timeserver
For checking the current time around this world |
:: Universal Currency Converter
Actually it's just a terran-global currency
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So what is it with the
haddock? Am I some kind of fish freak?
I'll leave that to
others to decide.
The tale (or tail if you prefer) harks back
to October 2000, when my GoodTwin and I, ably assisted by Sue,
ran the first UK Professionals convention...
It's common
knowledge that I never have enough time, and I was determined
not to bewail the fact that weekend: hence I promised not to use the
'T' word...
Of course, that didn't really work (if nothing else I
had to let the trainees know what times things were supposed to be
happening!) so we decided a substitute word would be employed
instead. There were several suggestions. Banana came very close to
being chosen. However, I eventually decided that 'haddock' fitted
the bill nicely. Ever since, haddock=time. Hence the title of my forthcoming
autobiography,
My Half-Life in the Haddock
Space Continuum....
Normally I wouldn't, but these
were just irresistible...
These
Too-Kawaii Kitties
were adopted from
Ghost's Anime
Page (which appears to have disappeared, alas...)
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Useful sites:
Yamato -
Fabulous anime figures
Anime Lyrics
A huge selection... evil popups
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Ai no Kusabi
Owned:
DVD
Dj: June Special
CD: Ambivalence
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Cowboy Be-bop
Owned:
DVD boxed set, complete; DVD Knocking on heaven's Door.
Manga: Tokyopop Vol 1 & 2
Figures: Vicious
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Cyber City Oedo 808
Owned:
DVD
All 3 eps on Video, dubbed
Dj: Cyberage 1-3
Illustrated Book 2 (Benten's) in Japanese
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Darkside Blues
Owned:
DVD
Manga: Darkside Blues (ADV)
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Death Note
Owned:
DVD - Live action 1 and 2 (Thanks GoodTwin!)
Manga: Vol 1
No longer collecting - happy to stick with the excellent live action films. (The manga is OK but fairly
pedestrian.)
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Demon Diary
Owned:
Manga Vols 1-7: complete
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The Demon Ororon
Owned:
Manga Vols 1 - 4 (complete)
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Earthian
Owned:
Manga Vols 1-4, complete
Anime Angelic Collection
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Fake
Owned:
DVD OAV
Manga Vol 1-7: complete
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From Eroica with Love
Owned:
Manga Vols 1, 9, 11
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Fruits Basket
Owned:
DVD Complete Series
Manga Vol 1 - 23, complete (Thanks Onna!)
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Gravitation
Owned:
DVD series
DVD OAV (DivX)
Dj: Remix 1-8, 10-11
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Hell Girl
Owned:
DVD: Vol 1
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Les Bijoux
Owned:
Manga: Vol 1 - 5 complete.
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Mirage of Blaze
Owned:
DVD Vol 1 (eps 1-4)
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NightWalker
Owned:
DVD series
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R.G. Veda
Owned:
English Manga: Vol 1
Japanese Manga: Vol 1-7 complete
Tarot Pack
R.G.Veda video
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Saiyuki
(a.k.a.Gensoumaden Saiyuki)
Owned:
DVD Perfect Collection
DVD Saiyuki Requiem
Manga: Vol 5, 6
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Trigun
Owned:
Complete series on DVD
Complete series on video
Manga: Vols 1, 2
Trigun Maximum Vols 1, 3, 5, 6, 8
Djs: Sand End (TN)
Red Typhoon
Red and Black
Love and Peace #3
Faith and Donuts (Pluto)
Vol 1 of the full-colour, manga-of-the-anime The $$60 Bill. Man (NOT
the
manga, this is more like a photo-book of the film...)
Figures: Vash (standing, Macfarlane), Legato Bluesummers, Midvalley the Hornfreak, Rai-dei
the Blade (Yamato)
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Twelve Kingdoms
Owned:
Anime Vol 1-3 (incl)
Rest needed!
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Under the Glass Moon
Owned:
Manga Vol 1, 2
Vol 3 needed
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Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust
Owned:
DVD
Vampire Hunter D Book 1
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Vampire Princess Miyu
Owned:
(DVD Vol 1) DVD Perfect Collection
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New Vampire Miyu
Owned:
(Studio Ironcat) Manga Vols 1, 3, 4 and 5
Vol 2 needed
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Wolf's Rain
Owned:
DVD complete series
OAV
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Yami no Matsuei
Owned:
Viz Manga: English translation, Vols 1 and 2
Japanese 3-DVD set
Central Park Media: Descendants of Darkness Vol. 1, English/Japanese subbed.
Sketchbook
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I have a lot of other anime and manga, but these are the current/long term interests
and favourites.
Many thanks to everyone who has helped me acquire the collection!
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[::..Joules SPfied..::]
... this is Terra? How the hell'd I end up here...?
(Thanks, Lutra, for the quote!)
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Rain, shopping, and Poppy3.9 - hoping to have it finished tonight and online tomorrow. This part should be the finale of Mechanism, but since the story is nowhere near finished I suppose I'll have to start a fourth part, oh woe... [g] Labels: shopping, The Poppy Tales, weather
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