Tag: 12 stories in 12 months

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Friday 10 January 2025: To boldly go or not to boldly go…?

And there we have it. The first full week of 2025 is done. It’s frightening, but a reminder that time waits for no man, so it certainly won’t wait for…

0 110  2 Comments on Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings
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Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings

Wednesday morning started well. The birds had their first feed of the day (they really are eating a lot in this snow) and I’d shared yesterday’s blog post within about…

0 114  2 Comments on Tuesday 7 January 2025: A good start
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Tuesday 7 January 2025: A good start

I packed a lot into the last 2 days of the week last week, and I packed a bit into the weekend as well. Saturday I was determined to have…

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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…

0 184  4 Comments on Wednesday 11 December 2024: 12 Stories in 12 Months
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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…

0 208  2 Comments on Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!
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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…

0 193  2 Comments on Friday 6 December 2024: In a rhythm again
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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…

0 191  2 Comments on Thursday 5 December 2024: Catching up…
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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…

0 182  2 Comments on Wednesday 4 December 2024: My 12-project planner
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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…

0 201  2 Comments on Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up
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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…

0 184  2 Comments on Monday 25 November 2024: Publication day!
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Monday 25 November 2024: Publication day!

I was busy on Friday trying to catch up with everything. I wrote Friday’s blog, chose the picture, published it, then shared it. I did a quick 5-minute tech declutter….

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Monday 11 November 2024: Remembrance Day

The only thing I really worked on on Friday was The Secret of Whitehorse Farm. And even then it was only pre-writing. Everything else was on binder work in Scrivener…

0 220  2 Comments on Thursday 7 November 2024: Oops, missed a day
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Thursday 7 November 2024: Oops, missed a day

I didn’t miss a day because I was being idle. I missed a day because I was busy. ALL of Tuesday was spent finishing the hard-copy proofread for my client….

0 182  2 Comments on Tuesday 29 October 2024: Writing and reading
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Tuesday 29 October 2024: Writing and reading

Our internet is shocking at the moment. The entire village have been complaining, despite high-speed cables being laid beneath the roads in recent months. We’re getting all the upheaval of…

0 222  2 Comments on Tuesday 22 October 2024: Lots of planning work
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Tuesday 22 October 2024: Lots of planning work

First job on Monday was Monday’s blog post. I’d started it on Friday and intended to complete it over the weekend as I worked. As I didn’t work at the…

0 285  4 Comments on Friday 11 October 2024: Friday again!
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Friday 11 October 2024: Friday again!

So it’s Friday again already! [sigh!] This week seems to have flown by. I didn’t bake any cookies on Wednesday night but I did make the pear sponge. We were…

0 235  2 Comments on Thursday 10 October 2024: I wrote a(nother) short story!
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Thursday 10 October 2024: I wrote a(nother) short story!

When I got up yesterday I was convinced it was Tuesday. I still had my story to write for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS. But it was fine, I still…

0 344  2 Comments on Wednesday 9 October 2024: It’s deadline day! 😱
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Wednesday 9 October 2024: It’s deadline day! 😱

I had such a leisurely start yesterday, not rushing or worrying. I mean, I had ALL day to write a story that was due in today, and I’d already done…

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Monday 7 October 2024: A new week

I started the job of deleting my stories from Vocal on Thursday, after I’d scheduled Friday’s post to publish, beginning with the date-specific topical stories that won’t make sense now….

0 261  2 Comments on Wednesday 18 September 2024: Tidying my Scrivener binders
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Wednesday 18 September 2024: Tidying my Scrivener binders

Today’s image was a free image from DepositPhotos. I liked it, even if I don’t know what’s in the glass… We both woke up with aches and pains everywhere yesterday….

0 278  2 Comments on Friday 13 September 2024: Friday the 13th
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Friday 13 September 2024: Friday the 13th

It’s Friday the 13th today. Friday the 13th bothers me that much, I didn’t even register it until I saw something on Facebook.  I don’t know where yesterday went but…

0 294  2 Comments on Thursday 12 September 2024: Networking
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Thursday 12 September 2024: Networking

First job of the day yesterday was to work on the story for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS and get it submitted. I was right at the end of revising…

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Wednesday 11 September 2024: WORDS WORTH READING Issue One out now!

It’s been a while since I made any promotional material. I forgot to do this for Monday’s post, forgot it yesterday, but remembered it today…(Well, I remembered it yesterday really,…

0 218  2 Comments on Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule
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Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule

On Thursday night I went to bed with a good feeling: I didn’t have to get up to do any work for anyone else in the morning, only me. That…

0 341  4 Comments on Thursday 15 August 2024: Back in a trade union!
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Thursday 15 August 2024: Back in a trade union!

While I started everything up on Wednesday, I also started my weekly tech scan for viruses. As that ran, I read through A DAY AT THE RACES and made a…

0 316  6 Comments on Wednesday 14 August 2024: I wrote another short story…
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Wednesday 14 August 2024: I wrote another short story…

It’s almost as though I do this kind of thing for a living! We were up with the larks again yesterday because my car was booked in for what we…

0 329  4 Comments on Tuesday 13 August 2024: Happy dentist
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Tuesday 13 August 2024: Happy dentist

We went out on Sunday to get me a long grabby thing (long-handled litter-picker) so that when I’m walking around the garden, I can easily pick up windfall apples and…

0 458  2 Comments on Friday 9 August 2024: It’s NOT piracy – it’s deliberate 😕
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Friday 9 August 2024: It’s NOT piracy – it’s deliberate 😕

After we got back from our tea the poet had some work to do, so while he did that I started to brainstorm my story for 12 STORIES IN 12…

0 329  6 Comments on Wednesday 7 August 2024: A week away
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Wednesday 7 August 2024: A week away

On the Friday we broke up for our week away, I ended up stopping work 2 hours earlier than planned because campsite #1 called and asked us to make sure…

0 355  2 Comments on Friday 19 July 2024: Free image Friday
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Friday 19 July 2024: Free image Friday

Today’s free image was so cheerful and energetic, I just had to use it. I love yellow. The poet was up bright and early to head back to the midlands….

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Thursday 18 July 2024: Announcement!

I had a bit of a slow, lazy start to the day yesterday. The temperature finally reached something close to ‘normal’ for summer and I thought it was too hot…

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Wednesday 17 July 2024: Soapbox alert

We had a good evening, the dog and I. We didn’t go for another walk as we played ball instead in the garden. For hours. He got lots of sticky…

0 350  4 Comments on Monday 15 July 2024: A dog for the week
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Monday 15 July 2024: A dog for the week

We were up very early on Friday because I had a very early (to us!) review appointment at the hospital. We got there on time and by the time the…