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This short story will only be available on this platform for 7 days. It was Christmas Eve and Faye had just been to Toby’s, an expensive jeweller in town, to…

I’m not going to do a wrap-up for 2026 this year. Most of you have all already seen it all anyway and I don’t want to bore anyone. Here, though,…

Happy New Year to all of our family and friends and everyone else who reads and supports this blog. You are all appreciated and very welcome. Health and happiness to…

This post also appears on Patreon. Ah, Wednesday… Well, Wednesday was a very long time ago, or so it seems. We also had errands to run, on top of dermatology…

This post also appears on Patreon. I should really be on holiday now, but I promised an author I’d have their book back to them by a certain date and,…

This post also appears on Patreon. Saturday seems to have vanished into a puff of smoke. I think we were busy, but as I write this on Monday afternoon, I’m…

This post also appears on Patreon. So it’s Monday again already and, in this household at least, we start our march towards the big day. Friday seems such a long…

This post also appears on Patreon. And here we are again. The end of another week already. It was quite non-stop and busy yesterday again, as I get ready to…

This post also appears on Patreon. Wednesday morning is one of my 3 weekly light therapy sessions at the hospital. It takes up the best part of the entire morning…

This post also appears on Patreon. After 2 disturbed nights on the trot and the previous day’s intense concentration on my annual finances, I really struggled to get up yesterday….

This post also appears on Patreon. Right after posting yesterday’s blog post on here and on Patreon, I started today’s. I had a bit of work to catch up on…

This post also appears on Patreon. Friday was a busy day. The morning was taken up with my 3rd dermatology appointment (3 down, 21 to go). This appointment really does…

This post also appears on Patreon. I had an early start on Thursday because, although I didn’t have to go for a light therapy session, another contractor was coming to…

This post also appears on Patreon. I didn’t get around to writing the micro-fiction short story on Tuesday for this month’s 12 stories in 12 months, but I didn’t beat…

This post also appears on Patreon. I forgot another job I did last week, planning the micro story for this month’s 12 stories in 12 months. This is a brand-new…

And so here we are, in December. Is it snowing yet? I had a physio appointment first thing Thursday morning, and straight after my dirty cuppa, I was off. The…

Having to attend light therapy treatment 3 times a week for 8 weeks plus 3 weeks holiday already booked meant I don’t have a lot of time for much else…

As November began, I was scheduled to start 8 weeks of light therapy treatment at the dermatology department, 3 times a week, towards the end of the month. With the…

I refused to be beaten on Tuesday and I took the editing I hadn’t done during the day into the living room to do during the evening. I’d had my…

And just like that, this is the last-but-one blog post for November. The day after tomorrow is the wrap-up and then we’ll be into the last month of the year…

The mad house seems to be settling down a bit now, after a few fraught weeks. Then it will all start up again as soon as my light therapy treatments…

We had a very good night on Thursday. Dogs were fed at about 10:30pm, which meant they both slept right through. Yay! They were up with the poet, who fed…

I was scrolling through Facebook over my dirty cuppa yesterday morning when I saw a post from the Doncaster Free Press saying it was snowing across Doncaster ‘this morning’. I…

I’ve got out of the habit of writing today’s blog post during the previous day and scheduling it to post at 8am. I suppose the obvious reason for this is…