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Aye, a drystone-lined hand-dug water well, over 6m deep, hollow timber pipes surviving for a later pump and everything.  In a very public place and yet completely missing from any available records. Very exciting!  If you like that sort of thing. Who's your friend Sheridan, sounds prolific!

James Rattue (link to amazon search results, but various books and pamphlets were the top ten results).

I never met up with that friend in the end. But I did happen to see another friend after the church. She was going out to dinner with a bunch of her friends and invited me along. We went to a New York Italian Restaurant in Greenwich. I had a steak dinner.

That rings a bell - is it on the gyratory system?  If so I may have been there myself about five years ago.  Reminds me that I haven't been to Greenwich for quite some time.[/quote]

Pretty sure I read somewhere that the US band Slough Feg was named after everybody's favourite celtic warrior's foe - they're on a European Tour this year, including a date just up the road from where I live![/size]

Live at the Unicorn, Camden, London.[/size]//MONDAY 6th JUNE 2016//Back in the UK as part of their European Tour, the most excellent:SLOUGH FEG (USA)https://www.facebook.com/sloughfegofficial/With support from London's own twin-lead revivalists:SEVEN SISTERS (UK)https://www.facebook.com/sevensistersuk/
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A great interview, very enjoyable.

I was a bit confused when he was saying that he doesn't read comics. This is something that I've heard in a few interviews with artists and writers. I can understand that working in the field might mean you wouldn't read them for pleasure, but wouldn't you look at others' work out of professional curiosity at least?

Yes, creators do tend to deny interest in reading comics (not just the mainstream ones, but everything). It's bizarre and veers towards snobbery which is odd in that it's the field in which they choose to work. Worthy of a follow-up question, that didn't happen.

A common reason is to allow plausible deniability if somebody accuses them of stealing ideas.

[The 2000 AD Script Book]

The 2000 AD Script Book -  Paperback, 192 pages, 9th November 2016.
By Pat Mills, John Wagner, Peter Milligan, Al Ewing, Rob Williams, Dan Abnett, Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Ian Edginton, Alan Grant, Leah Moore, John Reppion, John Smith, Simon Spurrier, & Kek-W.

Original scripts and the accompanying final art from the leading comics writers from the annals of the world famous 2000 AD comic.

FROM THE MINDS OF THE MEGA-MASTERS
For the first time Rebellion presents an astonishing and insightful collection of "2000 AD" scripts, written by some of the most successful and critically lauded talent behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic . Featuring original script drafts and the final published artwork for comparison, this is a must-have for fans of "2000 AD" and is an essential purchase for anyone interested in writing comics.

Cover for the script book.

Now I like the look of that!

I've just seen the Judge Dan Francisco entry on Wikipedia.  It doesn't mention that his show was a play on "The Streets of San Francisco" (which it has an article on, of course: here).

Could it be that it went over the head of the person who wrote the entry?

This entry?  Doesn't matter if it went over the head of the person writing the entry or not - if it can't be supported by external citations then it shouldn't be in the article, even it's a pretty obvious pun (as long as you've heard of the original show, that is).  The name Dan Francisco is a bit more of an obvious pun though...

to be clear, I've not been given a specific diet just told to lose weight and reduce my blood pressure & cholesterol, so I've cut out butter, bacon, crisps, biscuits and chocolate, as well as my Friday evening home-drinking session. I'm having less sugar in tea & coffee and eating more fish and chicken as opposed to red meat and lots of salad and vegetables rather then chips.

Cheers for all your encouragement!

Good luck with the healthier eating!

In light of the tragic fact that Douglas Wolk is unlikely to pick up this blog again due to his Dredd writing commitments, can anyone point me in the direction of a similar blog that covers the later Dredd material? Alternatively is there anyone with the appropriate talent who we can lobby to do a successor blog?

Is he writing a new story then?  The most recent one I know of was the City of Courts mini for IDW a couple of years ago.

Irrespective of swearing/nudity/violence, I think some of you are overestimating the robustness of the newsstand in 2016. In the teen magazine sector alone (2000 AD comes under the teen comics category, in which it's the no 1 seller, thank you very much) the last year has seen the closure of Girl Pop, Bliss, Batman the Brave, Zoom, Sleepy Hollow, and DC Super Friends, amongst others. The circulation on Titan's Adventure Time has dropped by a third since it launched a year ago.

Total magazine sales across the board have dropped, year on year. The market isn't what it was three decades ago.

Thanks for sharing the inside info.  For the record, this 41-year-old Squaxx, who has been reading since he was eight years old, is both happy with the last few month's goings-on re: nudity and swears in the Meg, and would also like Tooth to be as all-ages friendly as possible.
p.s. all-ages friendly meaning no real-world swear-words, only slight nudity (remember John Probe's naked bottom in the very first prog?) and action for younger readers and a bit more depth for the older.

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over here in the Linux wilds I use Rhythmbox and Banshee (general audio players which also play audio files and radio).

That was supposed to be general audio players which also play podcasts and radio.

Out of interest, what made you choose C++? I guess easy availability of free compiler and masses of mature material on the internet will be a help but you're throwing yourself in at the deep end a bit.

Which language would you suggest?

Larry Drake, 66.  Best known for his role in LA Law.

And representing the Yorkshire and the Humber contingent will be me! (I'm sure there will be others on the day...)

But grand that we now have a date. Time to check out the choo-choo prices...
And if more guests are to be added, can I put a request in for Brian Bolland, or Dave Gibbons? Ive nowt signed by them, 

I used to live in that region, and so did Rachael (shall have to check whether we'll both be coming along).

[P.S. Molch-R, I don't know where Amazon got their blurbs from but they must've been typed up by the work experience kid: "rotton", "poisions", "canibalised", "the the", "Mega-Cities greatest lawman" and more!  NOT TO MENTION HE SEEMS VERY EXCITED IN PLACES!]

Hmmm, thanks for this - I've had a word with the droid responsible for Amazon listings.

Well, Mek-Quake needs the work...

Apologies, if you think I'm trolling, by airing my grievances, but the sooner they realise they're
just playing god with words, over words & let people relax their use of words they think are normal through their everyday use are okay, the better. If they are gonna cry over a word like the ones I shared above, they deserve to loss social status & any other ground their majority has gained. (Using the word, because I think there are a lot of them!)

People who transition go through a lot of discrimination, just one type of which is the type of language you've used there.  One friend of mine 'cried over words' like that, and lost much more than social status.  RIP Zoe.

Not familiar with the writing/artwork of Hannah Berry and Dani K - though I see I shall be once the FCBD is released...