Words Worth Writing

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

By the time we woke up yesterday, the rain was supposed to have already been here for a couple of hours, but when I checked the forecasts, they all said…

So the rain we were warned would arrive by 8am yesterday and cause flash flooding everywhere never arrived. Indeed, by 8am it had even disappeared off the weather forecast. At…

I finally dipped my toe into Patreon around a year ago and I followed a handful of people on there to get an idea of what they’re posting and what…

We were up with the larks on Saturday because we had to get the dog to doggy daycare ahead of the daughter’s wedding. The dog sitter is only 15 minutes…

We were up raving early on Friday because the campervan had to go for its annual MOT. It’s still in the lockup over by our old house and while the…

I started early yesterday by first getting yesterday’s blog post out of the way. I should have done it the day before, and was feeling very smug the day before,…

Today’s image has nothing to do with today’s post, but it was free and I liked it so I used it. After knocking off early on Tuesday, I felt very…

With us heading off to Dent in a few weeks, I did a bit of research on the village shop. Last time we were there, the opening hours were very…

After a lot of planning work on Friday, I was ready to go yesterday morning. And despite a bit of a disturbed night, I was up relatively on time going…

Because I worked late on Thursday night (again!), I allowed myself to start late on Friday morning. Or, put another way, I didn’t beat myself up when I didn’t make…

It was so nice to wake up yesterday morning and remember there was no one coming and we didn’t have to get up. Of course, the dog still thought we…

Day 3 of the decorator being here, and hopefully the last day. Not that he’s been a problem. In fact, he’s quietly got on with his job, not caring at…

We were up with the larks again on Tuesday morning, as it was Day 2 of the decorator being here. I was still trying to get this proofreading job back…

We were up at the crack of dawn on Monday morning. The decorator was coming to paint the bedroom and the inner hallway and paper a feature wall in the…

On Friday we were up bright and early because my car was due in for its annual MOT. We did think I may be able to sit and wait, but…

Thursday was a bit of a bonus day in the world of new home renovation. We didn’t have to get up early to let anyone in. No one was coming…

Quite late on Tuesday evening, the building company owner sent a text warning me that the truck was coming at 8am the next morning to cart away all the debris…

Wow, so here we are in August and it’s already the fifth of the month! What a fast and busy year we’re having. We were rudely awakened on Friday at…

The year has flown so quickly already I’m determined to make some dents in my workload during August. We do have a family wedding to attend, and all the gubbins…

Well, July went by in a bit of a flash, didn’t it? We’re having so much work done in the house I had to push a lot back to August…

And just like that, it’s the end of July… We nearly forgot to take the dog for his walk on Wednesday, we’d been so busy with the window fitters and…

I’m absolute rubbish at getting up early for anything. No matter the occasion or the reason, if I have to get up early, at some point it wipes me out….

That’s house windows, not the computer platform… The window fitters arrived at around 8:10am yesterday against an eta of 8am. They came in two vans: one to bring the windows;…

On Friday, right after work, the poet assembled the first of our new chests for the bedroom, a 10-drawer chest, 5 big ones, 5 small ones. It took him a…

I was up on time on Friday and managed to do all the regular stuff within the time slots allocated. Reading, housework, dog, dirty cuppa, all of it. In fact,…

After my appalling self-discipline on Wednesday, I was determined to Do Better on Thursday. I didn’t have any housework to do, which gave me an extra hour, and after my…

After my dirty cuppa, my reading hour and my housework hour, the first work hour of the day is supposed to be my writing hour. Yet for the past week…

The new house is starting to look a lot more like ours, with our things around us and our stamp starting to appear. And work is getting there again too….

It was nice not to have a load of stuff planned for the weekend, and the idea was to chill a bit. The poet took the entire day off on…