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Friday 17 January 2025: Life’s too short

Once I’d fed the birds, had breakfast, got dressed, all those kinds of things, I checked in at my desk and went to collect the third lot of videos for…

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Thursday 16 January 2025: Keeping busy

Before I did anything else yesterday morning, I threw several buckets of warm, soapy water at the patio to clean up some of the trash the birds had left during…

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Wednesday 15 January 2025: Changes afoot

Tuesday started well. And then it took a nosedive. But in a goodish way as it made me to a major rethink. As we were up early, I didn’t fancy…

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Tuesday 14 January 2025: The thaw begins

Over the weekend I’d kind of decided to take the pressure off myself and only write an assignment for the space opera workshop if something grabbed me. I’m really not…

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Monday 13 January 2025: Space opera workshop starts today

We had a late start on Friday. A very late start. And I’d finished work late the day before and not had chance to pre-write and schedule Friday’s blog post….

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Friday 10 January 2025: To boldly go or not to boldly go…?

And there we have it. The first full week of 2025 is done. It’s frightening, but a reminder that time waits for no man, so it certainly won’t wait for…

0 90  2 Comments on Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings
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Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings

Wednesday morning started well. The birds had their first feed of the day (they really are eating a lot in this snow) and I’d shared yesterday’s blog post within about…

0 95  2 Comments on Wednesday 8 January 2025: Plan to faff
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Wednesday 8 January 2025: Plan to faff

I really should know by now not to plan things too tightly. Or at least I should plan to faff as well. Maybe that way I’ll get more done. Yesterday…

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Tuesday 7 January 2025: A good start

I packed a lot into the last 2 days of the week last week, and I packed a bit into the weekend as well. Saturday I was determined to have…

0 141  2 Comments on Monday 6 January 2025: Publication Day!
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Monday 6 January 2025: Publication Day!

So, I’m officially back from my annual Christmas holiday. We had a lovely break. I hope you had a great time too. Thursday and Friday of last week were gentle,…

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Friday 2 January 2025: Hello January!

Most of yesterday was about 2024. Most of today has been about 2025. Or January 2025 at least. It took a bit of working through, and I’m not officially back…

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Thursday 2 January 2025: 2024 Review & December wrap-up!

First of all, Happy New Year! A big thank you for reading over the past year (and before), and welcome on board (again!) for the coming year. Let’s hope it’s…

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Friday 20 December 2024: Merry Christmas!

Despite my best intentions, I didn’t get a lot done yesterday.  Yes, I uploaded a post, and I commented on a few. But much of the rest of the day…

0 122  2 Comments on Thursday 19 December 2024: Planning research complete
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Thursday 19 December 2024: Planning research complete

I’ve been down a research hole for pretty much the entire week looking for resources to help me with my planning and project management in the coming year. I’m delighted…

0 124  2 Comments on Tuesday 17 December 2024: Soap box alert!
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Tuesday 17 December 2024: Soap box alert!

We were away last week for a few days, down south in Faversham, which is only a few miles away from the south coast. We drove down on Tuesday, the…

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Wednesday 11 December 2024: 12 Stories in 12 Months

image created in CanvaPro I didn’t have any idea what to write about today as we were travelling for much of yesterday, from north to south. Very south. The morning…

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Tuesday 10 December 2024: Colds all round

Well, I said we’d catch up on the weekend today, but the truth is we didn’t do very much at all. After his 4-day trip away, the poet was full…

0 196  2 Comments on Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!
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Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!

Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…

0 181  2 Comments on Friday 6 December 2024: In a rhythm again
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Friday 6 December 2024: In a rhythm again

I’m still trying to catch up with the blog, but I think I’m getting there. I spent a couple of hours on Thursday at teatime watching Flight FR2088 coming back…

0 179  2 Comments on Thursday 5 December 2024: Catching up…
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Thursday 5 December 2024: Catching up…

The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may have noticed that the blog is running a bit behind at the moment, about half a day behind. This is because I’ve been writing it…

0 164  2 Comments on Wednesday 4 December 2024: My 12-project planner
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Wednesday 4 December 2024: My 12-project planner

Isn’t my 12-project planner wonderful? I keep mentioning it, so I thought I ought to at least give you a hint of what it looks like. This image is of…

0 190  2 Comments on Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up
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Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up

  Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…

0 200  4 Comments on Monday 2 December 2024: Hello, December!
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Monday 2 December 2024: Hello, December!

I only have 3 full weeks in December of work, then we break up for our annual 2-week Christmas holiday. So there’s less time in which to do as much…

0 178  2 Comments on Friday 29 November 2024: November wrap-up!
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Friday 29 November 2024: November wrap-up!

November didn’t go quite as planned.  Grand-doggy #1 didn’t come for a fortnight, but he did come for a few days. All Monkey Dust gigs were cancelled or postponed, so…

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Thursday 28 November 2024: 30 Writing Prompts for May 2025

Topical & evergreen ideas editors want to see Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around 6 months ahead, which means in November, I’m ‘thinking’ May, ‘writing’…

0 193  2 Comments on Wednesday 27 November 2024: Rubbish technology
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Wednesday 27 November 2024: Rubbish technology

So, Tuesday was all about poor communication and rubbish customer service. Wednesday was all about technology failing… I reminded myself that Mercury was now in retrograde and wondered if that…

0 190  2 Comments on Tuesday 26 November 2024: Rubbish service
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Tuesday 26 November 2024: Rubbish service

Yesterday started well. We were both up in good time, we had breakfast before work started, and we were both pretty much at our desks in good time.  The first…

0 164  2 Comments on Monday 25 November 2024: Publication day!
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Monday 25 November 2024: Publication day!

I was busy on Friday trying to catch up with everything. I wrote Friday’s blog, chose the picture, published it, then shared it. I did a quick 5-minute tech declutter….

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Friday 22 November 2024: The kindness of folk

Once we were up and about yesterday morning, the first thing the poet tried to do was charge the battery on my car…but he couldn’t get the door to open….

0 171  2 Comments on Thursday 21 November 2024: That was the day that was
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Thursday 21 November 2024: That was the day that was

We were up with the lark on Wednesday because the plumber was coming. He got here at 10am and had to crawl up into the loft. The loft hatch is…

0 173  2 Comments on Wednesday 20 November 2024: We need a plumber
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Wednesday 20 November 2024: We need a plumber

It started to snow at about 6pm on Monday and continued through the night. By morning, it had stopped and was starting to thaw. My watch told me it would…

0 197  2 Comments on Tuesday 19 November 2024: Snow watch
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Tuesday 19 November 2024: Snow watch

After a busy and lazy weekend we struggled to get up on Monday. And while I was having breakfast, I wandered off down another rabbit hole, this time watching a…

0 168  2 Comments on Monday 18 November 2024: Publication day!
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Monday 18 November 2024: Publication day!

I took 2 days off last week, but that didn’t necessarily mean I didn’t do any work. Thursday morning we took the dog back to his humans. On the way…