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Thursday 4 December 2025: Newsletter is out

This post also appears on Patreon. I didn’t get around to writing the micro-fiction short story on Tuesday for this month’s 12 stories in 12 months, but I didn’t beat…

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Wednesday 3 December 2025: Bit of a catch up

This post also appears on Patreon. I forgot another job I did last week, planning the micro story for this month’s 12 stories in 12 months. This is a brand-new…

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Tuesday 2 December 2025: Pet shenanigans

And so here we are, in December. Is it snowing yet? I had a physio appointment first thing Thursday morning, and straight after my dirty cuppa, I was off. The…

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Monday 1 December 2025: Hello, December!

Having to attend light therapy treatment 3 times a week for 8 weeks plus 3 weeks holiday already booked meant I don’t have a lot of time for much else…

0 130  2 Comments on Friday 28 November 2025: November wrap-up!
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Friday 28 November 2025: November wrap-up!

As November began, I was scheduled to start 8 weeks of light therapy treatment at the dermatology department, 3 times a week, towards the end of the month. With the…

0 111  2 Comments on Thursday 27 November 2025: Editing
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Thursday 27 November 2025: Editing

I refused to be beaten on Tuesday and I took the editing I hadn’t done during the day into the living room to do during the evening. I’d had my…

0 112  2 Comments on Wednesday 26 November 2025: Posh ice cream
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Wednesday 26 November 2025: Posh ice cream

And just like that, this is the last-but-one blog post for November. The day after tomorrow is the wrap-up and then we’ll be into the last month of the year…

0 138  3 Comments on Tuesday 25 November 2025: All quiet in the mad house
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Tuesday 25 November 2025: All quiet in the mad house

The mad house seems to be settling down a bit now, after a few fraught weeks. Then it will all start up again as soon as my light therapy treatments…

0 126  2 Comments on Monday 24 November 2025: It rained. A lot.
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Monday 24 November 2025: It rained. A lot.

We had a very good night on Thursday. Dogs were fed at about 10:30pm, which meant they both slept right through. Yay! They were up with the poet, who fed…

0 155  2 Comments on Friday 21 November 2025: More snow!
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Friday 21 November 2025: More snow!

I was scrolling through Facebook over my dirty cuppa yesterday morning when I saw a post from the Doncaster Free Press saying it was snowing across Doncaster ‘this morning’. I…

0 143  2 Comments on Thursday 20 November 2025: Snow!
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Thursday 20 November 2025: Snow!

I’ve got out of the habit of writing today’s blog post during the previous day and scheduling it to post at 8am. I suppose the obvious reason for this is…

0 121  2 Comments on Wednesday 19 November 2025: Need more focus time
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Wednesday 19 November 2025: Need more focus time

I’m not getting very many longer segments of time in which I can focus properly on a job that needs a lot of concentration at the moment. So I’m doing…

0 144  2 Comments on Tuesday 18 November 2025: Back to the beginning
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Tuesday 18 November 2025: Back to the beginning

On Saturday I had to work. I still had that editing job to do and send off to be set and I wanted it off my desk sooner rather than…

0 156  2 Comments on Monday 17 November 2025: Squally weather
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Monday 17 November 2025: Squally weather

Storm Claudia arrived on Friday in the relatively early hours. I knew there was a storm brewing out at sea, but I didn’t know it was expected to make landfall….

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Friday 14 November 2025: More editing

And here we are, Friday again. Already mid-November (almost). Christmas isn’t far away. Before we know it, it’ll be next year! Lazy late start yesterday. Pup very kindly didn’t wake…

0 162  2 Comments on Thursday 13 November 2025: Editing
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Thursday 13 November 2025: Editing

I forgot to complete my food allergies diary on Tuesday, so that was the first job I did Wednesday morning, while it was still fresh in my mind. The second…

0 160  2 Comments on Wednesday 12 November 2025: More covers work
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Wednesday 12 November 2025: More covers work

Yesterday morning began, bright and early again, with me first letting the puppy out and then feeding them both about an hour later. I had my dirty cuppa and read…

0 121  2 Comments on Tuesday 11 November 2025: Playing with images
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Tuesday 11 November 2025: Playing with images

Last week I ordered a food and allergies diary in a bid to see if there’s a pattern with my skin. That arrived on Friday, and I started it yesterday…

0 159  2 Comments on Monday 10 November 2025: Editing
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Monday 10 November 2025: Editing

I forgot to pre-write the blog on Friday again. Tut, tut. Not a lot happened…well, I was very busy, but it was all the same kind of thing. Editing, pet…

0 169  2 Comments on Friday 7 November 2025: A shiny new fence
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Friday 7 November 2025: A shiny new fence

And here we are. Friday again already… Yesterday began rather like the day before had, with me making corrections to the blog post over a dirty cuppa on my mobile…

0 159  2 Comments on Thursday 6 November 2025: New schedule begins
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Thursday 6 November 2025: New schedule begins

Last job of the day on Tuesday was supposed to be schedule work. Then I remembered yesterday’s entry for 12 stories in 12 months. It’s rare I get this done…

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Wednesday 5 November 2025: Bonfire Night!

I love Bonfire Night. It’s one of my favourite times of the year. I love the bonfires, the fireworks, the sparklers, the hot dogs, the jacket potatoes, the smell of…

0 201  3 Comments on Tuesday 4 November 2025: All good intentions
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Tuesday 4 November 2025: All good intentions

By last Thursday morning, I had all good intentions of being caught up at least a little bit. But then I couldn’t even remember to schedule Thursday’s blog post on…

0 222  4 Comments on Monday 3 November 2025: Hello November!
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Monday 3 November 2025: Hello November!

I’m supposed to be starting my light therapy treatment at the dermatology department in Rotherham in November, but I’m still seeing how the collagen supplements are currently going. If my…