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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

0 109  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…

0 114  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…

0 119  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…

0 132  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…

0 127  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…

0 118  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…

0 147  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…

0 158  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…

0 131  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,…

0 164  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!

0 211  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…

0 208  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…

0 152  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…

0 155  2 Comments on Tuesday 28 April 2026: Pottering in the garden
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Tuesday 28 April 2026: Pottering in the garden

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,…

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Book Review: Silent Ritual by Andrew James Greig

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…

0 222  2 Comments on Friday 24 April 2026: Good news at last!
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Friday 24 April 2026: Good news at last!

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…

0 198  2 Comments on Thursday 23 April 2026: Happy St George’s Day!
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Thursday 23 April 2026: Happy St George’s Day!

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…

0 244  2 Comments on Wednesday 22 April 2026: More publishing
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Wednesday 22 April 2026: More publishing

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…

0 220  2 Comments on Tuesday 21 April 2026: Republishing
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Tuesday 21 April 2026: Republishing

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…

0 216  2 Comments on Monday 20 April 2026: What do readers want?
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Monday 20 April 2026: What do readers want?

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…

0 395  4 Comments on Friday 17 April 2026: Draft2Digital – read the room!
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Friday 17 April 2026: Draft2Digital – read the room!

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…