The Greetings of the Season to You All!
Greetings of the season to all readers with a photo of the advent story currently playing out in fridge magnets on my front door.
Commonplace
A November Legacy – looking back at TheSupercargo
After all these years there’s a legacy of posts at TheSupercargo stretching back for 10+ years; here are some November adjacent ones.
Pilgrim, Riddly and setting free the turtles
A memory and a review of Riddly Walker, Turtle Diary and Pilgermann, ten years after the death of their author Russel Hoban.
From the reservoir: a decade of TheSupercargo in August
After all these years of writing for TheSupercargo, there’s a reservoir of posts stretching back for more than a decade. Here are some.
The most popular posts at TheSupercargo – summer 2021
The most popular posts at TheSupercargo July 2020 to June 2021 inclusive, both among those published since Jan 2020 and among older posts.
Census-Taker of the Secret Commonwealth! Here we are
From This Census-Taker, via The Secret Commonwealth, to Here We Are, and stops between. An entry in my reading diary with a bias towards the fantastic.
Spring back through the years
A photo essay looking back at Spring (mostly the month of May) through the rear-view mirror of my photo archive, 2011-2021.
Introducing Pens around the World
Introducing Pens Around the World, a website and a writers’ group for isolated writers working in English and living in far-flung places.
Behemoth passing – of death and computers
Behemoth, my desktop PC, died on Monday. I could probably revive it, but it’s ten years old – old for a computer. It’s time to buy a new one.
Fat Tuesday, intolerance and how to bake semlor
Fat Tuesday – Mardi Gras, Fettisdag, Shrove Tuesday – lactose intolerance and the corona pandemic combine to get me baking Swedish Fettisbuns