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Tuesday 9 June 2026: Banks!

We had such a lovely, surprise weekend away in the campervan. Castleton in the High Peak is one of our favourite places and it used to be one of our…

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Monday 8 June 2026: Surprise trip!

On Friday we were supposed to be taking the dog to meet and greet the dog sitter he’s having a couple of sleepovers with later this year. But just as…

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Friday 5 June 2026: Planning is so hard!

With the news that we should be getting the keys to the new house next Thursday, my first job of the day was to re-plan the rest of my month….

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Thursday 4 June 2026: Yay!

We both slept in on Wednesday, which meant a late start to the day and not as much work done as I’d like. And the poet had to be at…

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Wednesday 3 June 2026: Solicitors!

I didn’t get around to any of the republishing last week. Most of the time it was too darned hot. The rest of the time I was just doing other…

0 111  4 Comments on Tuesday 2 June 2026: Hello, June!
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Tuesday 2 June 2026: Hello, June!

We thought we may be moving house in May, but we didn’t. So now we need to move house by the end of June instead. I have booked work in…

0 125  2 Comments on Monday 1 June 2026: May wrap-up!
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Monday 1 June 2026: May wrap-up!

Oh dear. May didn’t work out at all, hardly. I had such big plans too, and a big long list.  I already decided at the top of the month that…

0 124  2 Comments on Friday 29 May 2026: Proofreading
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Friday 29 May 2026: Proofreading

Normally, today’s post would be the monthly wrap-up, as it’s the last working day of the month. But there are 2 days left in the month including the weekend, plus…

0 108  2 Comments on Thursday 28 May 2026: Cooler…
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Thursday 28 May 2026: Cooler…

For the past 2 days I’ve been so drugged up overnight that I’ve really struggled to wake up, let alone get out of bed. The pills we have last about…

0 128  2 Comments on Wednesday 27 May 2026: Thunder!
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Wednesday 27 May 2026: Thunder!

The weather at the weekend was awful. Intolerable. Even the poet, who’s a bit of a sun-worshipper, said it was unbearable. But…we had lots of warning and we knew it…

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Tuesday 26 May 2026: Melting…

Did you have a good bank holiday weekend? Friday was a glorious day and I plodded steadily through the day’s objectives, doing all of the usual household stuff. The clothes…

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Monday 25 May 2025: Bank Holiday!

Here in the UK it’s a bank holiday today, late May bank holiday or what used to be Whitsun. And we’re taking it. If you’re taking it too, have a…

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Friday 22 May 2026: Heatwave!

On Thursday I actually managed to get some work done again. I was up on time, because the poet was off to the second day of his 2-day conference. He…

0 137  2 Comments on Thursday 21 May 2026: Chase me!
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Thursday 21 May 2026: Chase me!

Wednesday was much the same as the day before. Household chores, cup of tea, reading, exercises, dog walking, etc, etc. The day started on time and I didn’t stop for…

0 121  2 Comments on Wednesday 20 May 2026: Wet dog
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Wednesday 20 May 2026: Wet dog

Yesterday was a good day. I’d submitted yesterday’s job the day before, and had the day before’s job to do yesterday. Which took the heat off a bit. I had…

0 140  2 Comments on Tuesday 19 May 2026: Eve’s pudding
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Tuesday 19 May 2026: Eve’s pudding

I had a busy day yesterday, but there wasn’t a lot of work-work involved. I was up on time, I fed the dog, made the poet and me a cuppa…

0 156  2 Comments on Monday 18 May 2026: Rookie error
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Monday 18 May 2026: Rookie error

I had a good and steady day on Friday, gradually plodding through each of my chores and tasks, ticking them off as I went. But once all the housework stuff…

0 154  2 Comments on Friday 15 May 2026: Lost in blogs
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Friday 15 May 2026: Lost in blogs

We had a much better morning yesterday. The poet was working from home, so no stupidly early start. And by lunchtime (or our midday breakfast time), I’d slowly plodded through…

0 170  6 Comments on Thursday 14 May 2026: April showers
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Thursday 14 May 2026: April showers

So the poet was up with the larks again yesterday as he had to be ‘oop north’ before 9am. I know we’re already up north, both to me and some…

0 159  2 Comments on Wednesday 13 May 2026: Trifle
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Wednesday 13 May 2026: Trifle

Tuesday was a lot better than Monday, or a lot more successful in any case. My dirty cuppa was less dirty than usual in that I used sweetener tablets instead…

0 156  2 Comments on Tuesday 12 May 2026: Getting fit
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Tuesday 12 May 2026: Getting fit

Monday’s schedule went right out of the window. I was already late with the blog post, so that didn’t set me up for a good start to the day. But…

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Monday 11 May 2026: We may have movement…

Friday was a fair day in which I did get some tangible work done. The day started as usual and on time. I did my reading over my dirty cuppa…

0 178  4 Comments on Friday 8 May 2026: Unexpected road works
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Friday 8 May 2026: Unexpected road works

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…

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Thursday 7 May 2026: Admin

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…

0 197  2 Comments on Wednesday 6 May 2026: It rained!
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Wednesday 6 May 2026: It rained!

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…

0 162  2 Comments on Tuesday 5 May 2026: Good work!
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Tuesday 5 May 2026: Good work!

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,…

0 193  2 Comments on Monday 4 May 2025: Bank Holiday!
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Monday 4 May 2025: Bank Holiday!

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!

0 252  4 Comments on Friday 1 May 2026: Hello, May!
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Friday 1 May 2026: Hello, May!

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…

0 239  2 Comments on Thursday 30 April 2026: April wrap-up!
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Thursday 30 April 2026: April wrap-up!

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…

0 179  2 Comments on Wednesday 29 April 2026: Sunny weekend
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Wednesday 29 April 2026: Sunny weekend

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…