Today ...

I'll be ...

• Trading on Blog Shares
• Going for Duncan's birthday party at the Edge
• Carrying the heart from Bedford Place to the Edge
• Setting another blog to post long articles that I like
• Post the article on Rowling if I can find it on cyberspace
• Take photographs of the tree that has been planted on the spot where the flowers were at Russell Square (the flowers had been taken away a couple of days ago)
• Attempt to set up a hits counter on here
• Set up a thethirdwei email account
• Research on going to Scotland, Cambridge and Cornwall
• Set up a link on here to 'I'm reading...'

wheee!

Updates:

• Found the article on Rowling on the Independent website. Not willing to pay for it though, so it's just too bad. If you've got an Independent subscription, then ... just run a search for Philip Hensher on google.

An excerpt from the article:

Though J K Rowling's new Harry Potter novel must be getting on for 200,000 words, newspapers must have published considerably more than that in commentary on the book, features, reviews and news articles within a day or two. So, unless you've decided to make the examination of Potteriana your life's occupation, you may well have missed a small but fascinating intervention. Terry Pratchett has taken exception to a more than usually foolish Sunday Times article about Rowling, and written in reply in characteristically vivid terms. The newspaper had suggested that before Harry Potter, fantasy fiction was a limp affair of "knights and ladies morris-dancing to Greensleeves".

Pratchett, naturally, found it difficult to agree with this strange assertion. Though his ire may well have been raised on behalf of his own successful, witty and inventive Discworld series, he has subsequently mentioned the very distinguished names of Ursula Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones, Jane Yolen, Peter Dickinson and Alan Garner.