Nick Deverill

Cool, my favourite word is defenestrate.

I've heard it said, when my ears still worked, that the way you tell if two supposed Glaswegians are genuine is to put them together and see if they understand each other. If they don't, they're real Glaswegians. The worst though I've ever hit was in Liverpool. I've no problem with nearly all people from there, but I met a group of unemployed young men who were frankly, unintelligible. They were not putting it on, and they were genuinely trying to communicate. I would not be surprised if 20 years later, none of them has held a job other than perhaps a few weeks of labouring. Very odd place, must be one of the poorest I've been to, and one lady even invited me to lunch - I made up a fictitious appointment so that I could politely refuse.

Chapters 11 and 12 now on Mark's site, and as before, it ends; to be continued.

Not sure the author will respond as there is an undocumented problem, or at least I never found it. He was a reasonably prolific author on the gayauthors website and fairly late in last year - removed all stories and is no longer listed as an author.

Another point is, it's no problem to statistics if you toss a proper coin 100 times and it lands on heads every time. The probability of heads on toss 101 is still 50/50, the preceding events alter nothing. So the oft touted figure of one in ten being gay is not altered by a sizeable group. Indeed, I'd argue grouping of minorities goes without saying. So you get groups based on sexuality, skin colour and racial origin. Eight gays - total year group size? 80 or more, pretty likely I'd say. No idea of the size of years in the USA but the school I went to had 150 in each year from age 11 to 16. I have no problem - keep at it!

It's a nice tale. Doesn't read like a prompt inspired thing at all, just looks like a shorter, short story. One would like read more, but what is there is complete too.

Lurking on my bookshelf is a story set in the 20s, perhaps written in the 30s that is crying out for a film since the plot is so good. I've never suggested it when I had contacts, partly because I think it could easily be done badly and is crying out for a good treatment. The story lends itself admirably to being in both English and Spanish, especially since part of the plot hinges on some folk not understanding the language they don't speak. From memory, the plot is 100% hetero, but there is no sex in it anyway, nor should any be put in as it would make a good film for kids. The only bit I'd change is I'd make the young Spanish speaker who most of the plot involves, a little bit cleverer since the ending would be streets better if he was shown to be manipulating people, but letting his wife think she was! I'm convinced any film has to be a proper dual language production, where as a DVD release, you could choose subtitles in English, Spanish, turn them off if you spoke both languages and if you are deaf - subtitles of both languages.

Not a piece known to me, but reading up on it suggests it would be good. However, is it one of those pieces where to really appreciate it, one needs to be a bit of a musician oneself? My suggestion is one of those that would even impress the tone deaf I think! I agree. For the most part, to sound superior on a piano, it has to be written for one in the first place. It's actually less limiting than might appear as many composers use a piano as part of the writing process, so arguably some orchestral pieces were written for the piano, just that they are not known as piano pieces.

You might also try a UK proxy server. Not all proxies permit streaming but some do.

Yes, he's becoming a quite complex young man. A very enjoyable tale.

Chapter 10 ends with the words: To be continued . . . And reads like it too. Where the AD site often scores is the willingness to publish updates to existing stories. As a result, a more polished version can often be found here.

There's parts of Glasgow where if you said that, you'd be doing well to get out alive!

It's a throwaway remark had it been made by an Englishman. It is more correct to say British details, but it's not wrong as such to say English, as Sheffield is in England. All the countries that make up the UK, along with the Isle of Man and Channel Islands are in postal union and telephonic union so a quoted telephone number is inside the 44 UK country code and it is the same cost to send a letter. However, Lukas I think is a citizen of the USA, with an office in the UK and would be exactly the mistake made and thing said by somebody in that situation. Likewise, the next bit of the story underlines why it has been put in. Good attention to detail. Peter was impressed that Lukas acknowledged the difference between England and Britain as a whole. Peter is an older gentleman, and a better understanding of the issues probably does come with age, and certainly if one had owned property in Wales or Scotland, or lived there for a while as getting this wrong is a good way of upsetting a Welshman or Scotsman. So Pedro has done a rather better job of storytelling than most readers will understand, I think.

I'm sure Dabeagle will catch up, but at the moment, there are three more chapters on the author's pages here: http://ponyboysplace.wordpress.com/my-stories/a-good-place/ Perhaps with the pending finishing of The Mardi Gras murders, we'll see some more chapters posted.

England is part of the island, stopping at the boundaries with Wales and Scotland. Britain though includes them. See here for the full explanation: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2011/08/whats-the-difference-between-uk-britain-and-british-isles/

Having set my PVR the task of recording it, I watched it tonight. One of those programmes that ought to be homework for 11 year olds. I enjoyed it and will probably watch it again.

For a lap top or a desk PC, update to 8.1, install Classic Shell (free) and there are plenty of articles on negating the worst excesses of Windows.

It's a nice story. My French is a bit light, but I understood enough not to need to look things up.

I've always liked Wol, seems like a smart bird...

The song near the end of the story reminds me of this: We are the Ovaltineys, little girls and boysMake your requests, we'll not refuse youWe are here just to amuse youWould you like a song or story?Will you share our joys?At games and sports we're more than keenNo merrier children could be seenBecause we all drink OvaltineWe're happy girls and boys. It was the theme song for the Radio Luxembourg show, The Ovaltineys from 1935 to 1950 and for anyone who knows their propagation, would have been accompanied by heavy fading.

On first reading, it sounds too dry and will burn. Rice from dry to cooked absorbs about 1.4 times its volume in water. So you have to fiddle the water amount to take account of the water used for washing that is still there. So perhaps. However, 30 mins sounds way too long, 10 mins is what I use after bringing to the boil, and between 5 and 10 minutes standing with the source of heat removed. It is going to vary a bit with the cooker though, as it will be better with a super fitting pan lid and an incredibly small amount of heat - perhaps your cooker turns down lower than mine.

It's rather like the question, are you disabled? As Human Resources folk should know by now, some of us will answer, no, to this question yet would have to answer, yes, were we asked, do you have a disability? In the case of disabilities, it's an attitude of mind. Something grasped by some folk and not others.

Bit stymied by the fact I'm using a borrowed iPad, along with stolen bandwidth on somebody else's wifi... "Hairspray" Totally love that film, the 1988 version of course, not the pointless 2007 version. And I greatly suspect, "The way he looks" will be a worthy addition to the list although the DVD release has been put back. Region 2 though still gets it first by about a month. (I looked at both, I can view all regions).

Chapter 22 now up and things are happening. Probably now in the end game but it's not a story I've seen elsewhere so who knows? A good tale and for me at least, better than the earlier story by this author. And that has been revised too.

Since design wise, the fifth leg would need to be either in the middle, or between two others, the pragmatic solution would be to deliberately make it shorter than the other four. So it would not make the chair wobbly on a average floor and be purely decorative. Rather like the early multivalve radio that had, I think, two valves not even connected. The set was a TRF (Tuned Radio Frequency) and there is a practical limit on the number of valves as beyond it, more just make the set worse. So the set just connected up the heaters to make them glow, but the signal itself went nowhere near.