As it was Wednesday, I had a midweek shopping errand to run. I’m keeping the midweek shopping errand. It gets the car out and moves my body on top of the other benefits of fresh food and less waste. And, of course, people…
I got some fresh salmon for tea and a fresh cream cake for the poet’s birthday cake (he wanted fresh cream rather than proper birthday cake), plus some bananas, a bottle of milk and 2 jacket potatoes. Not a lot but enough to get me out. Plus, the poet came with me for the ride as he’s still working from home.
He had a good night’s sleep and felt a lot better, so hopefully the worst of his ‘man flu’ has now passed.
Once back I quickly polished this month’s submission for 12 Stories in 12 Months. It had come in at around 70 words over, so I got rid of those, and sent it off. That’s 2 stories that have gone into the world this week. This one forms part of The Ace of Swords and is probably the nudge I need to get that story finally written. If I can double it to 2,500 words, it will be long enough, although I’m happy for it to go to 5,000 words if necessary.
We had our midday breakfast before he went into a Teams call and I started today’s blog post. I also decided to join in with the Smashwords ‘2025 Read an Ebook Week’. My books will either be 50% off or FREE from 2 March to 8 March. You can find them here and here.
Son #2 nipped around to see his dad for his birthday while I carried on with work. I was editing. He stayed about an hour, and before he went we arranged for him to bring grand-doggy #1 over on Monday evening for a couple of days.
I took a break from the editing and made the next book review graphic (not this Saturday’s but next Saturday’s) and I updated my Affinity Photo 2. Then it was back to the editing.
Fingers crossed that the Smashwords sale does well for both of us.
Glad to hear the poet is feeling better. May that continue!
Thank you. He did too much today, of course, ignoring everyone and going into work anyway. But he is quite a bit better than he was.