The Background Deep Space Nine is my favourite Star Trek series. No, more than that, it is my favourite television series of all-time. It definitely didn’t start out that way though. I already was a huge trekkie (I loved both the original series and The Next Generation) so I thought DS9 would be a slam-dunk. I struggled to get into the first episode though, and further episodes just didn’t click […]
August Wrap-Up (and July, and June …) I haven’t done one of these wrap-up posts for absolutely ages – I am really behind with everything on my blog (yet again). I went through a slump in July and took a couple of weeks off to clear my head. I did feel a lot better for it but over the last couple of weeks I have been really busy and haven’t […]
Monthly Wrap-Up: May 2015 May didn’t start off too great for me. The weather was awful, work was pretty stressful, and I was still trying to deal with everything that happened a year ago. I lost my mum at the beginning of May last year and I am still trying to process that loss. It’s been pretty tough. It picked up a little bit towards the middle of the month and I […]
Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2015 April wasn’t a great month for me reading-wise. I was still recovering from the flu and was feeling a bit down remembering all the things that happened this time last year. I ended up not devoting as much time to reading as I had hoped but it has picked up the last week or so so I am pretty hopeful that I will be on track […]
Monthly Wrap-Up: March 2015 I spent nearly the whole month of March feeling ill. I managed to catch that horrible flu bug which has been doing the rounds, and it really knocked me sideways. Every time I think it’s beginning to shift, it seems to come back with a vengeance. As a result, March has been a bit of a washout reading and blogging-wise. I definitely haven’t been posting as […]