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Get In The Bath!
 I spent last week trying to get Nadine into one of Tbilisi’s famous sulphur baths with wine, cheese-bread, a cat and a dog. You might think the cat and the dog would be the tricky part, but they weren’t. The tricky part was not cutting my fingers off or glueing them together. Because I was making a raree show for Nadine’s birthday. (That’s what Wikipedia says they are. What a great word! Keep an eye out for it in an upcoming Alumière adventure.) Mine was with Nadine, Manchee and Pudding cavorting in a steam bath with wine and Georgian cheese-bread! I found the idea on the website of the Victoria and Albert Museum. You basically cut out several layers of paper with different images and line them up behind each other to create a little scene. Fiddly but fun. So, I’m passing it on, in case you’re handy with a craft knife and want to give it a go, too. Otherwise, stick to the videos. My latest is very educational, about where the phrase “ok” came from. Needless to say, it involves one of my great-great-grandfathers, as well as newspapers, the Boston Irish, and stress-tested trousers. Check it out, then share the link with your friends! Ok? Chat soon, Morgan |
Dark, Strange and Fantastic Fiction
Trusted by 500+ fans to find the fun in the funereal, the absurd in the macabre, and delight in the darkness. Join fiction author Morgan Delaney three times a week for genre-bending stories of cozy horror, dark fantasy and a brain with mind of its own...
Raise your glasses to the masses! This week I smashed past a massive 100,000 words of the latest Alumière adventure, The Cat Wore Black! 100,000 words is about the length of To Kill a Mockingbird. And I’m only about 80-ish% through the book. Don’t worry, though. I’m a messy writer, and this is the first draft. Once I pull out the Red Pen and start deleting, that word count will come right back down again. I reckon the finished Cat will clock in at a respectable 75,000-80,000 like the others....
You think you’ve seen it all… I’m friends with the stray dogs in our local park. The people working in the park feed the dogs, and I supply the tickles (and additional treats). Then the bloody birds ruined it. What should have been a win-win situation has turned into a catastrophe. The dogs get food – and tickles. The blackbirds get whatever’s left. But the birds wanted more. So they started pecking at the oldest dog, who only has three legs, to hurry him on before he’s finished. They sneak...
We want to try every restaurant in Tbilisi before we leave this summer. I can’t recommend last night’s restaurant. The food tasted fine, but the decor included a film projector projecting some old Georgian film. I know it’s Georgian because 90% of the action was people eating and drinking. The walls were stuffed with pictures, paintings, and various vintage bits and bobs, so they projected the film across the top of one wall and part of the ceiling. To be specific, the actors – mostly sitting...