Martin H

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• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Taking it in another direction, once upon a time I was staying at an apartment in Swabia. My line of work includes sometimes getting construction materials delivered by a big lorry and unloaded by crane by a bloke in a...
• Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
  Blimey, they look like an aeron shagged a pair of crocs. And yet rather comfy....
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Re competence porn, I have to recommend BBC's The Repair Shop. People bring in treasured but knackered family heirlooms, then lovely and very talented craftspeople restore them, with very little jeopardy or hype. Proper nice cosy telly, about as far...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  I remember Living in the Past, made in 1978 - an early version of the form. A bunch of people spent a year living as Iron Age people. I saw a follow up doc a while back, where one of...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  Griswold v. Connecticut? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut...
• Commented on I get book covers
  Wordery works for me as a non-Amazon option (and has free international delivery). I do slightly worry that their business plan is to set up an online bookshop and then sell it to Amazon for a large fortune as and...
• Commented on Introducing new guest blogger: Genevieve Cogman
  Wordery has it and ships anywhere for free. And they're not Amzn....
• Commented on Ask the Author
  Ok, this makes me feel a bit silly asking, but I'm guessing I'm not the only one... how should your wife's name be pronounced?...
• Commented on Let's put the future behind us
  The production of concrete produces vast amounts of CO2 in the first place (5% or so of all man-made CO2 apparently), so not really a winner I'm afraid....
• Commented on A message from our sponsors
  There's an obvious solution to this - RoboStross! I'm sure the required skill sets are available here to crowd-source a realistic(ish) talking, signing teleoperated simulacrum. Think of the savings - ship it surface mail, spends the night in a cupboard...
• Commented on Forthcoming UK Audio Books
  As a resident of Catford and fan of public transport I'd take issue with that! Though I suppose it depends on your definition of "a bit of a slog". Catford's sort of halfway-ish between the middle and the edge of...
• Commented on Forthcoming UK Audio Books
  Totally agree re USian accents reading UK set books - I'm a Brit! Point is, see Jimbo's post at 28 - I'm assuming that the Canadian version is the same as the US, i.e. an Englishman reading in an English...
• Commented on Forthcoming UK Audio Books
  Thanks. So I'm not so clear what Charlie meant when he said "And you can probably guess why the UK publisher doesn't want to simply re-use the American-narrator US audio edition in the UK market.". Is the US publisher really...
• Commented on Forthcoming UK Audio Books
  Bit confused. What accent are the US Laundry books read in? Jimbo at #9 seems to be saying it's an English accent, but everyone else seems to be assuming otherwise. Out of interest, does anyone have a ballpark figure for...