Words Worth Writing

We didn’t do a great deal at the weekend. Because we’d moved the garage fridge into the house and the house fridge into the garage the day before, we were…

On Wednesday, I had to throw the last third of a trifle away as it had gone off in the bottom of the fridge – usually the coldest part of…

Started well but failed to live up to expectation. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Over Her Dead Bodyby…

By the end of play on Wednesday, my eyelids were drooping again and I felt as though I was dropping off again. I’ve noticed just lately if I spend too…

I finished an hour early on Tuesday. I was so tired, all I wanted to do was go and take a nanna nap. I had a nap on Sunday and…

Tuesday was all about getting back into the swing of things. I’d had a lazy few days and I’d let a few things slip. And it was time to pull…

I didn’t manage a lot of work on Friday. In fact, looking at my diary, it looks like I didn’t do any work at all. I didn’t do any workshops….

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of A Cold Heart by Doug Sinclair. This is Book 4 in the DS…

Write a story around that! Friday already…The week seems to have disappeared into a puff of smoke. I barely got a thing done yesterday. In fact, I didn’t get a…

I woke up with all good intentions yesterday morning, on time and everything. I had my dirty cuppa, but I didn’t have a quiet hour because I’d already reported a…

I’ve been a day behind on the blog all week, and this one should have been posted yesterday. But yesterday’s ended up being the Hello, March! post, and Monday’s, which…

So here we are in March. Already. I should have done today’s post last week and scheduled it to post yesterday. But as I’ve mentioned a few times already, I…

This is how busy I was last week. I didn’t even schedule the wrap-up post for today and I’m having to do it right now. February in all was a…

Gosh, yesterday was busy. I thought Tuesday and Wednesday had been busy, but along came Thursday, saying, ‘hold my coat!’ The day started with the poet opening his presents and…

Oh my goodness. I missed on a couple of counts yesterday. First of all, I had such a stupid day on Tuesday proving I’m not a money launderer, I just…

How was your weekend? Did you have a good one? Friday I was busy all day and the first thing I did once I hit my desk, after playing with…

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of A Deadly Flame by Doug Sinclair. This is Book 3 in the DS…

Apparently, it’s Love Your Pet Dog Day today. I don’t think I need to say we love our pet dogs every day, and everyone else’s too! I’m late again today,…

Apparently, it’s Tug of War Day today. I can’t remember the last time I participated in a proper tug of war, or even watched one in action. Saying that, I…

It was Shrove Tuesday yesterday, and that makes it Ash Wednesday today. I wrote a short story a long time ago called Ash Wednesday. It was broadcast on BBC Radio…

It’s pancake day today, one of my favourite days of the year. I love pancakes, but I’ve never, ever been successful at making any. I always end up with either…

Today’s post should have been a book review, but I didn’t have one ready. So it’s the Friday/weekend catchup instead. And as tomorrow’s blog title will be ‘Pancake Day’, I…

This short story will only be available on this platform for 7 days. A male blackbird foraged for the last of the berries on the hawthorn while his mate tugged…

Apparently it’s Galentine’s Day today. Hands up everyone who’s heard of Galentine’s Day? I certainly hadn’t. So of course, off I pootled to find out what it’s all about, and…