On the role of the reader

"a book is not finished when it goes to the publishers to be printed. It is only finished when a reader picks it up"

Excellent post riffing from a comment by Bujold about what a reader brings to a book, and how that's as important as what the writer put there. (An argument that I firmly support, not least because readers find positive as well as negative things, things that the writer didn't (?consciously) put there.)

LUSH haul!

£15 grab bag of Xmas goodies contains: ( probably only of interest to Lush fans )

Also, they are doing Bathos again (local branch hasn't had it for a while) so stocked up on that and Blue Skies ...

My cat is Ev0l

see here for details

But this may be the solution!