A new year – Happy 2018 – Idle blogs of an idle fellow

Just a super quick blog, note to self might be more accurate, to wish all idle followers of my blog a very fantastic, lucrative, and well-moisturised 2018. Or anodyne, cash -strapped and dry, depending upon you proclivity.

I hope you have a good night tonight. I would be watching Ski-Sunday, but it finished years ago, so instead will be viewing last year’s Jools Holland Hootenanny, starting from 8pm, which means it should be finished by 9:30 and I can go to bed having already celebrated midnight.

I’m also anticipating knowing what actually day it is from tomorrow, you know, with a number as opposed to a name. Any new year resolutions are achievable – basically keep my job, get the sequel to the Life Assistance Agency edited and published and start a new book. And maybe get a dog. And stop liking stuff on Twitter which is bound to bite me on the arse in years to come. Mmm, I thought I’d said achievable…

If you are stuck for activities tonight then feel free to leave a review of the novel on Amazon (!). And thanks to all those that took the time to in 2017 – they are very much appreciated, as are the visits and comments on here.

All the best, see you next year.

My novel, The Life Assistance Agency – selected by WHSmith Fresh Talent 2017 – is available to alleviate Sunday feelings here – http://myBook.to/lifeassistance

and here

http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/the-life-assistance-agency,thomas-hocknell-9781911129035

and on ebook here –

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About Idle Blogs of an Idle Fellow: https://tomhocknell.wordpress.com In 1886 Jerome K Jerome wrote the Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, a collection of humorous essays. He claimed that if people wanted their minds elevated, then they best avoid, it. He was the original Blogger. He also added - "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen." Idle Blogs of an Idle Fellow is a rip-off, in the hope that Jerome K Jerome would not mind, and in fact, were he alive today, would be writing this blog and probably doing a better job of it.... It touches on the main questions of modern life, such as Pop music, Social Media, and the desperate need for the return of Lyons' tea houses in London. Between January and June 2010 I enrolled on the Faber Academy novel writing course under the guidance of Richard Skinner, and in 2012 won the Brighton Fringe's Writer's Den. The debut novel The Life Assistance Agency: Do you want to live forever? Ben Ferguson-Cripps is a struggling writer with a surname that gets more comments than his waning blog. In desperation Ben sets aside his literary ambitions to join the newly established and enigmatic Life Assistance Agency. The Life Assistance Agency is published September 2016 and available for order here: https://wordery.com/the-life-assistance-agency-thomas-hocknell-9781911129035

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