Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 3, Season XI. This is it – at long last! We’ve finally set everything in motion, we’ve hoisted all the sails, and the Alpha season is about…
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Alphaday 2 – Season XI
Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 2, Season XI. We’ve made a start. It’s still early days and the Alpha mechanism needs a bit of cranking up before all the cogs,…
Alphaday 1 – Season XI
Hi Alphas, Snip! I’ve cut the virtual ribbon and Alpha Season XI is now open! A big and warm welcome to you all on this Alphaday 1. About…
Alphaday 1 minus 1 – Season XI
Hi Alphas, I hope you’re enjoying a blissful break from the Alpha routine. Nothing lasts forever though, and perhaps you’re now beginning to long for the company of those who’ll remind…
Alpha Season X – Alphaday 11 Bulletin
Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 11. We’re definitely approaching the summer break now. Summer? Well, there’s a lot of vegetation activity out there and it looks gorgeous… especially when the sun shines…
Alpha Season X – Alphaday 10 Bulletin
Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 10. We’ve still got a full programme for today, and I hope you’ll make the most of it. Alpha seasons are like that, you see. There’s the…
Alpha Season X – Alphaday9 Bulletin
Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 9. Spring has definitely sprung here in the northern hemisphere, and those of you who’re not part of it, I think, are missing out on this feeling…
Alpha Season X – Alphaday 8 Bulletin
Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 8. Somehow it seems to me that no sooner have I struggled hard to establish our wonderful Alpha routine, than it’s time to apologise for the monotony…
Alpha Season X – Alphaday 7 Bulletin
Hi All, Welcome to Alphaday 7. Isn’t it strange that we’ve already worked our way through one half of Season X? Six Alphadays either side of today and five out of ten…
Alpha Season X – Alphaday Bulletin 6
Hi All, Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all got nicely out of 2013 and into 2014: A perfect, clean page for us to fill with all the good things in life;…
Alpha Season X: Alphaday 5
Hello Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 5. The season gets busier and busier and very exciting as we try to keep up with it all. Here’s another Alphaday with a lot of treats…
Alpha Season X: Alphaday 4
Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 4. We’re definitely in full swing now; there’s so much happening that it can be hard to keep up with it all. How much of it registers…
Dashes & ellipses
Out of the 15 challenge entries five were ‘clean’: In entries 3, 4, 10, 11 and 14 there’s no sign of dashes or ellipses. I wonder whether this is deliberate ‘purity’? Below…
Alpha Season X: Alphaday 3
Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 3, Season X. This is the real thing. All the little wheels and cogs have been set in motion and the Alpha season’s machinery is purring contentedly…
Alpha Season X: Alphaday 2
Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 2, Season X. Every new season has its limbering up period and our muscles gradually get into full swing by the time we reach Alphaday 3. We’ve…