Jonny Nexus

Category: Life

  • The River

    Before moving here, I’ve only ever visited Hebden Bridge in the summer. The Hebden Water river I saw was a gentle stream, a few inches of water tumbling gently over its rocky bed, frequently braiding into rivulets that left much of the channel free of water. When people talked about the town being vulnerable to…

  • A Belated Announcement of a Geographical Nature

    I have news, that news being that I’m not in Brighton anymore, but am in fact… well actually I’m currently in a hotel room in Mumbai on a trip with the day job, which is why I’ve found myself with the time to type this announcement, an announcement I’m making a shockingly bad fist of. Let…

  • Feedback Of The Nicest Kind

    Yesterday, a reader tweeted to say that she’d enjoyed If Pigs Could Fly, and hoped there would be a sequel. I RTed that with a replying comment and was really happy to then find the Dublin 2019 Worldcon bid account RTing that to its followers: And to complete my day, the Irish Discworld Convention account…

  • I Know I’m Biased, But…

    So I was playing Lego Duplo with the little one the other day and I made her a twin-jet, medium bomber, as you do. She was very happy with it, and was playing “flying” with it, and then she picked up a discarded piece of assembly from a previous build, and announced that she was going…

  • IDWCon 2015: Sunday Morning Progress Report

    It’s day three now of the Irish Discworld Convention 2015, and I’m sitting in the Plaza of Broken Moons (a.k.a. the lobby) typing this. For those of you who don’t know, IDWCon (as it’s typically referred to) is an Irish version of the International Discworld convention held in the UK. Since it’s held on those years…

  • On Cows Milk At A Vegan Event

    First off, a statement. I do not consider being a vegan to being in any way comparable to being a member of an discriminated against group, be that persons who are non-white, female, gay or bisexual, trans-gendered, or members of a minority religion. However, for someone such as myself who by virtual of being a…

  • Review: The Fat Controller’s Busy Day

    One of the hazards of having a day job, a writing career on the side, and a two-year old daughter, is that it does rather cut into the time you have available to actually read fiction, let alone review it. But I do feel that as an author it’s important to try and “put something…

  • A Twitter Account For Brighton

    A little while ago I started1 following @ireland and @sweden on Twitter. Both are examples of what are termed Rotation Curation: Rotation Curation, also #RotationCuration, is the concept of rotating the spokesperson on a broad scoped social media account. Such a scope can be a location, a country, an organization, a group, and so on. The concept…

  • David Cameron’s Constitutional Crisis

    “What we have is what I always wanted, which is one single question, not two questions, not devo max, a very simple single question that has to be put before the end of 2014 so we end the uncertainty.” – David Cameron, October 2012. * * * “If we get a No vote, that will…

  • Scotland and Me: A Personal View

    Firstly, to get the big question out of the way, if I was Scottish, I’d vote yes. Not because I’d think it will be easy. I don’t. I think it might be quite hard – worthwhile things usually are. I’d be voting yes because ultimately I’d rather be a citizen of a small democracy of…