Month: December 2024

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Friday 20 December 2024: Merry Christmas!

Despite my best intentions, I didn’t get a lot done yesterday.  Yes, I uploaded a post, and I commented on a few. But much of the rest of the day…

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Thursday 19 December 2024: Planning research complete

I’ve been down a research hole for pretty much the entire week looking for resources to help me with my planning and project management in the coming year. I’m delighted…

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Tuesday 17 December 2024: Soap box alert!

We were away last week for a few days, down south in Faversham, which is only a few miles away from the south coast. We drove down on Tuesday, the…

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Wednesday 11 December 2024: 12 Stories in 12 Months

image created in CanvaPro I didn’t have any idea what to write about today as we were travelling for much of yesterday, from north to south. Very south. The morning…

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Tuesday 10 December 2024: Colds all round

Well, I said we’d catch up on the weekend today, but the truth is we didn’t do very much at all. After his 4-day trip away, the poet was full…

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Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!

Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…

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Friday 6 December 2024: In a rhythm again

I’m still trying to catch up with the blog, but I think I’m getting there. I spent a couple of hours on Thursday at teatime watching Flight FR2088 coming back…

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Thursday 5 December 2024: Catching up…

The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may have noticed that the blog is running a bit behind at the moment, about half a day behind. This is because I’ve been writing it…

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Wednesday 4 December 2024: My 12-project planner

Isn’t my 12-project planner wonderful? I keep mentioning it, so I thought I ought to at least give you a hint of what it looks like. This image is of…

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Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up

  Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…

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Monday 2 December 2024: Hello, December!

I only have 3 full weeks in December of work, then we break up for our annual 2-week Christmas holiday. So there’s less time in which to do as much…