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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…

I know it’s hard to believe, but I was in a right grumpy mood on Friday. The dog had been a complete pain in the butt since the workmen left…

I reached the next milestone in my weight loss journey yesterday: 5% of my body weight lost. Actually, I lost a further half a pound too, so I was very…

After such a busy few weeks, yesterday was a dream. I had chance to relax, spread out, and let my hair down. I had a lovely lie-in and when I…

Today’s picture has nothing to do with today’s post, but it was a freebie from DepositPhotos and I liked it. So now you’ve got it. On Monday, we had builders…

We had some shock news at the end of last week, in amongst all the deaths that have suddenly happened. A politician that I didn’t agree with at all was…

I tried to post this last Friday, but the internet signal via my phone just wasn’t strong enough, for some reason. So I’m posting it today instead. Today’s post was…

The pictures I’ve been using to illustrate the blog for the past week are pictures I’ve taken on our walk down to the meadow. Today’s picture was going to be…

After we finished work on Friday, we nipped out to take the dog for a walk and to drop in on the poet’s mum, as we hadn’t seen her in…

Right, we seem to be back to normal again now with the blog posts. Today’s is all about Friday and tomorrow’s will be the weekend and Monday. I couldn’t take…

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of The Graveyard Bell by Andrew James Greig. This is Book 3 in the…

By Tuesday I was supposed to be in the swing of things again, but I wanted to take the dog on his first proper walk in the new neighbourhood. Before…

The first week of July will be a combination of getting settled into both a new house and a new routine and waiting for the dust to settle as well….

We expected to be moving house in May, but when it looked likely it would be June after all, I allocated time to a load of jobs that could easily…

Hot on the heels of the house move from hell – or should that be *in* hell? – the poet’s first day back at work was a looooong drive south…

Wahey! We’re in! But, oh, what a long and horrid slog it was in the end. Nothing to do with the house move itself. Just the sheer amount of stuff…

Sooo, all being well, we collect the keys to our new house today. We’ve already exchanged contracts. We just have to wait for the sellers’ estate agent to call us…

Yesterday started out really well. I was up on time and didn’t waste any time on housework. I did, however, have a proper reading hour to set me up for…

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…

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…

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….

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…