Tag: Monkey Dust
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…
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…
Tuesday 5 November 2024: Bonfire Night!
We didn’t do a great deal at the weekend. We did the shopping on Saturday and nipped in to see the band’s drummer. The next-door neighbour was having his chimney…
Monday 4 November 2024: Publication day!
Before I carry on, I’d just like to say IT’S PUBLICATION DAY! Paper Roses, a Wordsworth short, is out today! You can buy it from Books2Read/DianeWordsworth. Right, after I posted…
Tuesday 15 October 2024: Horsham at night
We had to cancel Saturday’s Monkey Dust gig due to the poet losing his voice. He’d had a cold all week and had cancelled band practice on Thursday in order…
Monday 14 October 2024: Northern Lights
We had a late night on Thursday, binge watching something on Netflix. Fortunately, it meant we were still up to watch one of the apparently best ever shows of the…
Tuesday 8 October 2024: Getting annoyed with things
Monday morning began with me finalising the outline for THE MYSTERY AT HORTON EDGE on Story Plotter on my tablet, which I did straight after breakfast while still in my…
Tuesday 24 September 2024: Busy doing nothing…
(Note: I did a tap dance once to I’M BUSY DOING NOTHING, and wore a pair of dungarees my mom’d had made for the occasion. Hence today’s picture…) I seem…
Thursday 19 September 2024: Date work
I didn’t even bother trying to take the dog on a ‘walk to work’ yesterday. He’s happy enough zooming around the gardens and so long as his collar’s off, he’ll…
Tuesday 10 September 2024: Bonus work time
I had bonus work time Monday morning as before I’d even got out of bed there was a text message from my dentist saying the hygienist was poorly and could…
Friday 23 August 2024: Late summer bank holiday already!
I can’t believe we’re at the late summer bank holiday weekend already! Where on earth did that year go? It’s shooting by in a blur. By the end of the…
Monday 12 August 2024: Blarney Castle
On our last night in Cork we had Italian for tea. They only had chocolate puddings, though, so we passed. I’m not keen on chocolate puddings anyway, but when those…
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…
Tuesday 2 July 2024: The month ahead
We had a lovely Friday/Saturday with grand-doggy #1. We took him for a stroll on Friday night and returned him to his humans at around 11:30 the following morning. We…
Tuesday 11 June 2024: A turtle dove!
As ever, we had a nice weekend, starting with a successful Monkey Dust gig on Friday night. We had a lot of fun and the band itself filled the venue…
Tuesday 21 May 2024: Busy weekend
Gosh what a busy weekend we had. Saturday We were up early on Saturday because we had a lot to do, and while the poet was getting something out of…
Tuesday 14 May 2024: The days are getting busy
The weekend was very full and busy, starting with a packed Saturday. We started with a visit to the mother-in-law to pick up something for Son #2 who’d had an…
Friday 10 May 2024: Halloween in May?
The Halloween cosy mystery novella course consists of a lot of prep and background work. Up to yesterday, that’s what I was working on. Watching videos, reading notes, and printing…
Friday 26 April 2024: Locked in!
Thursday morning I caught up with reading I IS FOR INNOCENT. I didn’t warm to this one straight away, but I think that’s because I didn’t really like H. However,…
Tuesday 23 April 2024: Meet Peggy
We had such a busy weekend, which wasn’t helped by the fact that Monkey Dust had a gig on Sunday at teatime. Some people like to go to gigs on…
Friday 19 April 2024: Annoyed!
I finished reading H IS FOR HOMICIDE and started to read I IS FOR INNOCENT right afterwards. I finished H feeling a bit meh. I started I, and the meh…
Tuesday 9 April 2024: Getting back in the swing
I finished yesterday’s blog post yesterday and before I did anything else, I went out to feed the birds. We have a blackbird who comes and stands on the fence,…
Tuesday 26 March 2024: Dentist again!
Monkey Dust had a fab gig on Friday night. They always do at the Irish Bar in Doncaster. They have a good crowd in there. I dropped the poet off…
Friday 22 March 2024: At the dentist 😱
Stunning view of the historic pier of Puerto Natales, Chile, on the Seoret Channel, at sunrise on a summer day with the sky covered in gray and pink clouds –…
Tuesday 19 March 2024: Busy weekend
Because I didn’t finish all of my work on Friday, I already knew I’d be working at the weekend. Saturday First thing Saturday we also had to take the dog…
Thursday 7 March 2024: A day book
While I’ve been trying to sort out everyone else’s basic incompetence, I’ve been using a day book. The poet has always used a day book but I thought that was…
Wednesday 6 March 2024: I need structure
When the poet came home on Tuesday, he quickly fixed the mini TV box and the booster before rustling up a quick tea (we had fish fingers, chips and baked…
Monday 29 January 2024: Other people’s dogs…
Well, it’s been a busy few days again. Monkey Dust were back in the studio for rehearsals on Thursday and they had their first gig of the year on Saturday,…
Tuesday 23 January 2024: Full steam ahead
I had some catching up to do yesterday as I’d lost a lot of time on Friday. First of all I’d had to wait around for a delivery, then I…
Monday 22 January 2024: Proper weekend
On Friday I added an ebook shop to the website. It took all day to choose which one to use, try some out, remove them again, and then finally settle…
Tuesday 9 January 2024: The office is done
The weekend So, what did we get up to at the weekend? We did quite a bit on Saturday. My delivery arrived on Friday of letter trays, jellies and expanding…
Thursday 4 January 2024: A new regime
While the new regime wasn’t supposed to start until Tuesday, I did actually do some work on Monday too. We’d already spent some time rearranging the office, and on Monday…
Friday 29 December 2023: The bit in the middle
Did you have a lovely Christmas? Ours was very relaxed. We didn’t do any baking, but of course the poet still cooked us a rather splendid Christmas dinner. We had…