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Friday 3 April 2025: Snowball effect

So yesterday started really well with all the usual chores. I hung a washload out, put another one through, fed and watered the garden birds, emptied the dishwasher, started to…

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Thursday 3 April 2025: Busy bee

Tuesday was such a busy day, I wanted to take it easier on Wednesday. But there were more jobs on the to-do list and one of them took longer than…

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Wednesday 2 April 2025: Grab a cuppa…

…this is a long one. Friday Friday seems such a long time ago now. I was still working on The Christmas Tree Mystery, but I had to finish work early…

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Tuesday 1 April 2025: Hello April!

As I was, as ever, busy on the last day of the month, I’ll do a proper full weekend catchup tomorrow. I will say one thing, however… It was quite…

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Monday 31 March 2025: March wrap-up!

Friday began with my usual dirty cuppa, but instead of feeding the birds first, I had to jot down some notes that came to me in the early hours. Sally…

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Friday 28 March 2025: Off to the theatre, darling!

After getting up early on Wednesday, I slept in a bit on Thursday. I was only 10 minutes after the alarm, so not too bad. But I was tired. I’d…

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Thursday 27 March 2025: I rescued a bumble bee

The Jessica Brody (Save the Cat Writes a Novel) Zoom webinar was useful. She really is a good tutor. She keeps it interesting and lively and makes you think you’ve…

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Wednesday 26 March 2025: Lots of tidying up

Writing the first scene of the new novella got me over the starting hump. Once that was down, the ideas started to come for the rest of the Act, and…

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Tuesday 25 March 2025: We managed some gardening

I seem to be getting back up to steam on the workflow. Friday was a good day, even if I didn’t get a lot of actual writing done for the…

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Monday 24 March 2025: I can see the end of the month from here…

And just like that, we’re in the last full week of March. Thursday evening, after tea, ended up with some unexpected Monkey Dust admin. They had a gig on Friday…

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Friday 21 March 2025: Friday already! Again!

Time flies so quickly! It will be April soon. Having not yet settled on my next read, I didn’t do anything over my dirty cuppa yesterday, and I was at…

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Thursday 20 March 2025: Steady work

Yesterday wasn’t a bad day. Over my ‘dirty’ cuppa, I finished re-reading Jane Eyre. It’s one of the set reading books for the gothic writing workshop that happens at the…

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Wednesday 19 March 2025: Reviewing the situation

March was always going to be a big month, even with a hospital visit and a 2-week convalescence. Then I lost 2 whole days to the tax/NI fiasco as well….

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Tuesday 18 March 2025: Easing back in?

I had hoped to be back on light duties yesterday, starting with a blog post and a bit of writing. My plans, however, went down the drain due to a…

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Monday 10 March 2025: Surgery went well

So I didn’t get around to scheduling a post on Thursday, writing a review for Saturday, or publishing a book today. I did, however, make it to surgery on Thursday…

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Wednesday 5 March 2025: Publication day!

Monday was publication day for Ash Wednesday, Flash Fiction #13. The plan was to plug it yesterday, as Monday’s post was the month ahead. But I missed yesterday too, so…

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Monday 3 March 2025: Hello March!

Once again, at the time of writing I was still up against the clock with Book 4 of the great novella challenge. Tune in tomorrow to see how I did…Unless…

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Book Review: Broken Angels by Gwyn Bennett

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Broken Angels by Gwyn Bennett. This…

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Friday 28 February 2025: February wrap-up!

I was up really early yesterday and the first hour of the day was spent scrolling through social media. When I think of the amount of work I still had…

0 263  2 Comments on Thursday 27 February 2025: Smashwords 2025 Read an Ebook Week
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Thursday 27 February 2025: Smashwords 2025 Read an Ebook Week

As it was Wednesday, I had a midweek shopping errand to run. I’m keeping the midweek shopping errand. It gets the car out and moves my body on top of…

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Wednesday 26 February 2025: Happy Birthday, Hubster!

I experimented a bit with the cherry crumble topping on Monday night. The poet had already stoned and washed the cherries and I put them on to stew a little…

0 134  2 Comments on Tuesday 25 February 2025: Falling behind
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Tuesday 25 February 2025: Falling behind

I did a lot of work at the weekend on the editing job and I finished yesterday’s blog post on Sunday so I could schedule it and carry on with…

0 142  2 Comments on Monday 24 February 2025: Publication day!
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Monday 24 February 2025: Publication day!

It’s publication day today for my SHORT STORY The Weather Can Be Murder, Wordsworth Short #36. This is a story I wrote as an assignment for the fantasy thriller workshop….

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Book Review: Murder at the Mill by T.A. Belshaw

Many thanks to the author for sending me an updated version of Murder at the Mill. This is a reboot of my original review as I’ve now been sent the…

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Friday 21 February 2025: Ebooks all backed up

I only managed my 3 chair exercises yesterday before going out to run my errand. At some point this week I’ve twisted my knee. I don’t know if I turned…

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Thursday 20 February 2025: Does Scruffy have a mate?

I’ve been very lax on the actual work front this week. I keep getting distracted by things that seem to be out of my control. For 2 days I’ve been…

0 155  3 Comments on Wednesday 19 February 2025: A full day’s work?
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Wednesday 19 February 2025: A full day’s work?

I was up with the poet yesterday and I downloaded 2 free apps to help me with my move-my-body challenge. Okay, so there isn’t an official challenge, but it does…

0 170  2 Comments on Tuesday 18 February 2025: Another proprietorial move
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Tuesday 18 February 2025: Another proprietorial move

Over my first dirty cuppa of the morning I once again read a daily newspaper (on Readly). This does seem to be becoming an easy habit, which is good. Perhaps…

0 142  2 Comments on Monday 17 February 2025: ‘Albatross! Albatross! Alabatross…’
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Monday 17 February 2025: ‘Albatross! Albatross! Alabatross…’

I was up on time on Friday and I read a daily newspaper over my first dirty cup of tea of the day. I didn’t play any games and I…

0 182  2 Comments on Friday 14 February 2025: Valentine’s Day!
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Friday 14 February 2025: Valentine’s Day!

It’s Valentine’s Day today and we have roses and cards in the house. We don’t have red (Lancaster) roses in our house, we have white, Yorkshire roses. (I’m married to…

0 174  2 Comments on Thursday 13 February 2025: Home!
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Thursday 13 February 2025: Home!

I thought I’d have time to write up and post a blog by late morning, but I’m a bit late again. On Tuesday I closed work down early as we…

0 169  2 Comments on Wednesday 12 February 2025: Roadtrip
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Wednesday 12 February 2025: Roadtrip

Image by Miriam Verheyden from Pixabay Monday was roadtrip time again. I didn’t post in detail about it before because of, you know, contents insurance. Or it being voided due…

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Tuesday 11 February 2025: Fog

I had a lot of problems last week trying to upload the latest 3 books I’m publishing to Google Play Books. It was always so easy before, but I think…