Cats and birds are not always the best mix

Share some fun feline-avian interaction videos with Jack while we’re waiting for news:

Things are not always as they seem - in a lot of different ways

Here are Jesse and Mike getting it all wrong on video, but in an entertaining way.

What's the lesson? 

Answer: Don't feed gummy bears to any kind of horses.

And what's the link between Jesse and Mike's shenanigans and Megan and Amy's? 

Answer: In an odd kind of way, there are quite a few links and once you get to read what Megan and Amy get tangled up in, you'll see just where Jesse and Mike got things wrong. 

Almost time for lift off

I have been counting up for 28 weeks* now, and although it's not quite time to start counting down, I've decided it's time to stop counting up. Here's why:

The first draft of Horse of the Same Colour is nearing completion.

That doesn’t mean it will be published next week or anything. There is still a lot to do. It must be polished up until it shines. Then it will be thrown to the fearsome editors at Fantastic Books Publishing who will kick it about and try to break it (that’s their job). And after that it will go into the mysterious process known as ‘production’ whereby a raw manuscript gets sucked in at one end and a shiny new book pops out the other.

We are getting closer to the point where it will be given a publication date. You’ll hear the champagne corks pop when that message arrives.

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*It seems to be 28 weeks but I'm prepared to be caught out if anyone has been counting closely.

A fascinating fact that can be written in cake

 

Jack and I are always interested in odd facts about numbers (or odd facts about even numbers, or even peculiar facts about odd numbers).

This is a quirk of the number 40 which, as you can see above, can be made into delicious party food. I should say it's a quirk of the number 'forty' because it relates specifically to the spelling. 

The letters in FORTY are arranged in ascending alphabetical order.

That might not look so special at first glance, but in fact it's the only number where that is true.

A message for people who follow my blog

Image by Klimkin

Jack loves a shiny new gadget and for week 27 of the CountUp we're reporting that we've taken the opportunity of a brand new book on the horizon to switch to a brand new way of keeping in touch with the people who follow our blog. We've switched to follow.it which is the shiny new gizmo now at the top right hand side of the page. Turns out that follow.it is for both blog readers and blog writers so do check out the link and see what's there for you.