Words Worth Writing

Friday already! In only a few weeks, the nights will start drawing in again. It’s madness how fast the years go by these days… The poet came home from work…

Wednesday morning was all about bitty admin stuff. Once I’d done my usual household chores and read a couple of chapters of my book, first job of the day was…

On Friday the poet cut the grass because I was already doing a rain dance for the weekend. It’s true, I had seen a blanket forecast for the entire UK…

I promised that today’s post would appear yesterday, but I’d forgotten that yesterday was a bank holiday, and bank holidays get their own kind of blog post. Sorry about that,…

Here in the UK it’s a bank holiday today, early May bank holiday. And we’re taking it. If you’re taking it too, have a good one!

In future, the month ahead post will be on the second working day of the month rather than the first working day month. This is to accommodate a more accurate…

In future, the monthly wrap-up will be on the first working day of the next month, and the new month will be on the second day. This is so I…

At the weekend, I had every intention on making a good start on the packing. We’ve not done any yet, so I resolved to try and do one thing every…

As I hadn’t lost any weight since going onto plain water during my fasting hours, I went back to the dirty tea first thing. If it wasn’t having any affect,…

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Silent Ritual by Andrew James Greig. This is Book 2 in the PI…

We had a really, really good start to the day yesterday. The dog got us up before the alarm went off again. Three times. First he wanted out. Then he…

I must say, starting the working day an hour later during BST seems to be working. Although I’m often up around half an hour before the alarm (puppy…), this seems…

Overnight I had a return email regarding the workshop I wanted to join in May. Yes, the study along had been cancelled, but not because of a low uptake. They…

Last week’s hoo-ha really knocked me back and I’m trying my hardest to catch up again. I get far too enraged by everything these days, it seems. I really am…

Hundreds of people read or visit this blog every day. Hundreds of people subscribe to it. If anyone wants to comment on something I’ve written, some comment on the blog…

So, after moving everything along by an hour on my daily schedule, the dog decided we were getting up at the old regular time anyway. We tried to resist, but…

It was so much easier yesterday getting up an hour later. There was no pressure for me to get up before I was ready and, in actual fact, I got…

After I finished for the day on Monday, and after tea, we changed the bed. The reason this is even being noted is because we swapped out the brushed cotton…

After strong winds last week, and some squally storms, it seems April showers proper finally arrived at the weekend. We went out for walks on both days, and on both…

After I’d closed down on Thursday, I realised I hadn’t done my daily words. My eyes were tired and I’d finished early to give them a rest. But not ticking…

And here we are again. Another Friday and almost at the halfway point for the month of April. So scary. Yesterday did not start as well as the day before….

Yesterday was such a good day, starting bang on time over a dirty cuppa. I had my reading half hour and a housework half hour then took the dog for…

In my bid to catch up and reset, the plan yesterday was to touch everything at least once and then move on until I was up to date. Of course…

Wow! Here we are, 7 days into the merry month of April and I haven’t even published a regular blog post. Until today. So where has the month so far…

Oops, I skipped a day yesterday. I was so buried in what I was doing (more of which next week), by the time I lifted my head above the parapet…

I’m a bit late with the month ahead for April as I wasn’t sure what I’d be doing towards the end of the month. I was initially keeping everything a…

March seems to have flown by in a blur. I blinked, and here we are at the end of the first quarter of 2026. I made some big decisions at…

Today’s blog post would normally be a book review. But as I’ve completely stalled on a book I was reading for review (not sure I’m going to do the formal…

And here we are again. Not only is it Friday already, it’s also the last weekend of March. Our clocks go forward tomorrow night/Sunday morning, which I’m not looking forward…

I had a rubbish night on Monday and ended up sitting up for 2 hours in the dark waiting for a reflux to subside. Normally I’d read, but I was…