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Thursday 3 April 2025: Busy bee

Tuesday was such a busy day, I wanted to take it easier on Wednesday. But there were more jobs on the to-do list and one of them took longer than…

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Wednesday 2 April 2025: Grab a cuppa…

…this is a long one. Friday Friday seems such a long time ago now. I was still working on The Christmas Tree Mystery, but I had to finish work early…

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Monday 24 March 2025: I can see the end of the month from here…

And just like that, we’re in the last full week of March. Thursday evening, after tea, ended up with some unexpected Monkey Dust admin. They had a gig on Friday…

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Monday 17 February 2025: ‘Albatross! Albatross! Alabatross…’

I was up on time on Friday and I read a daily newspaper over my first dirty cup of tea of the day. I didn’t play any games and I…

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Tuesday 4 February 2025: A bit of a whirl

So, at the end of Wednesday last week, Fallen Angel decided it didn’t want to be written yet. I’d made a start on the first chapter and managed 401 words….

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Wednesday 29 January 2025: Rhythm

I didn’t write up Tuesday’s blog post until Tuesday morning, thanks to my procrastination on Monday. Once it was written, I posted it and shared it. Then I allowed myself…

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Wednesday 15 January 2025: Changes afoot

Tuesday started well. And then it took a nosedive. But in a goodish way as it made me to a major rethink. As we were up early, I didn’t fancy…

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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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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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Wednesday 27 November 2024: Rubbish technology

So, Tuesday was all about poor communication and rubbish customer service. Wednesday was all about technology failing… I reminded myself that Mercury was now in retrograde and wondered if that…

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Tuesday 19 November 2024: Snow watch

After a busy and lazy weekend we struggled to get up on Monday. And while I was having breakfast, I wandered off down another rabbit hole, this time watching a…

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Monday 18 November 2024: Publication day!

I took 2 days off last week, but that didn’t necessarily mean I didn’t do any work. Thursday morning we took the dog back to his humans. On the way…

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Thursday 14 November 2024: Wild goose chase

Because I fell down a rabbit hole on Tuesday, I didn’t get around to yesterday’s blog post until yesterday. I collected and replied to some comments on my gardening post,…

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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…

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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…

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Wednesday 30 October 2024: Tax shouldn’t be taxing…

With nowhere to sit yesterday morning, because most of the living room furniture was stacked in the dining room and I couldn’t get to any of the dining furniture, the…

0 229  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…

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Monday 21 October 2024: Leisurely weekend

I forgot to mention in Friday’s post that on Wednesday the money I was owed by Vocal landed in my bank account. On Thursday morning, another job I did from…

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Friday 18 October 2024: Home again!

I was a day behind all week on my blog posts, so when the poet finished his work on Wednesday and we decided to head home on Thursday, I didn’t…

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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…

0 274  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…

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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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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…

0 303  2 Comments on Friday 4 October 2024: That was the week that was
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Friday 4 October 2024: That was the week that was

I skipped a few more regular daily posts over the past couple of days due to the September wrap-up, the Hello October, the book review, and the Take One Idea…

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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….

0 272  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…

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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…

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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…

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Thursday 8 August 2024: Working in Ireland

After our first trip to Durham, where I didn’t really organise myself properly, I think I’ve learnt some lessons because, so far, Ireland has been working quite well. We lost…

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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….