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Well, hello there, gorgeous cats and kittens! Just stopping by to apologise for not having been around as much of late. I’ve been a bit under the weather. Well, actually, no, I’ve been feeling a bit sorry for myself is a more accurate way of putting it. I’ve had a rubbish gammy foot for about six months which has been increasingly causing me ungodly amounts of pain, and while the pain is indeed ungodly, it’s been more the fact that hobbling around the place half of the time has made me feel old and decrepit and that has made me a bit low (except for briefly during the bad snow when I quite genuinely looked like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining on my home from work each night, that amused me). After finally relenting and visiting a doctor (and then a biomechanical specialist, seriously made me feel like the Six Million Dollar Man ) it turns out have Morton’s Neuroma which is a tumour that grows on a nerve in the foot, hence ungodly pain. The name and the description actually ...

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Small selection of the things (other than blogs) that have obsessed me this week: Zombie pinup calendar - Wish I'd found this last year. Plight of the Living Dead  - Awesome lady on Etsy who sells handmade personalised Zomb-me dolls. Excellent, unique gift for any horror fan (I got my husband one for Valentine's day). And the seller, Nix, is a doll herself. Zombina and the Skeletones  - My new favourite band. Can't believe I've only just found them. I defy you not love them too. Vampire Hunter Kit  - Want!!!! Amazon One Star Reviews - Stupid people who hate classic novels. Love reading these, even thought I suspect some may not be quite what they seem. Excellent article on Matthew Coniam's  Carfax Abbey  - King of the Zombies and Mantan Moreland as part of Matthew's Monogram Month, brilliant read. Dracula: ‘And by the end I realised that it was all because Bram Stoker actually has no story to tell. This could all be excused if the writing i...