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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…

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…

The campervan was due in for its first service (with us) and we got up early to go and collect it. I dropped the poet off at the compound, followed…

I had a lot of catching up to do yesterday, and yet I spent the first half of the day doing bitty stuff. Like yesterday’s blog post and publication planning….

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…

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…

The plan was to step away from the newsletter for a day or so and get on with some other work. However, there was one thing I wanted to do:…

I’ve included a few more scenes from Poland today, but only for illustrative purposes. It took me a while to get going on Monday. First of all, it was the…

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of my lovely new writer’s guides lined up on my Kindle, all nine of them. I forgot there was another freebie too that I converted,…

So the weekend has crept up on me again and I’ve hardly done any of the things I hoped to do this week. I did manage to compose and send…

We had thunderstorms forecast for the entire weekend and, naturally, I was keeping a close eye on them all via my app. Saturday On Saturday I wanted to go to…

We had to get up early on Friday because our new bed was coming. I asked if they could give me an idea of what time, and they said any time…

I’d stayed up a bit late to get the short story submitted in time to the writing challenge, and that meant getting up late the next day as well. Once…

Today is 1 December, which means for me it’s the time of year for planning ahead. And I have a lot of planning to do for next year if I…

Last week we were in beautiful Northumberland on our holidays. We came home a day early so that we could pay for, sign for and collect the keys to our…

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Back in October 2021, I set myself a challenge to publish a book a week for a year. This could be a short story, a collection of short stories, a…

I finally have newsletter news! Please sign up if you haven’t already. Thanks to all of the subscribers patiently waiting for a newsletter from me. After several months of dithering,…

(Image created on Canva) Another thing I faffed at over the weekend was creating images on Canva to make wallpapers and Instagram posts. (You can follow me on Instagram too,…

(Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) Friday afternoon/evening (13 August) On Friday afternoon, I disappeared down another rabbit hole. This one was a holiday rabbit hole after I realised that we hadn’t…