Words Worth Writing

After a lovely break in Stratford last week, yesterday was back to normal, apart from having grand-doggy #1 with us to get us up on time. We were both exhausted…

On Thursday we were up bright and early and on our way to Stratford-upon-Avon. Some people I’d worked with 30 years ago were having a reunion, and they invited us…

When I got up on Wednesday, my response to Assignment 3 for the 50 MURDER mystery prompts workshop hadn’t come back, although he did acknowledge my submission early Sunday evening….

I had a good, clean shot at the day’s work yesterday. My planner was neatly filled in, with specific jobs against specific time slots, and with  two half-hour breaks throughout…

We had a hot and busy weekend. With another heatwave on the go, it was starting to get quite unbearable. We kept as cool and hydrated as we could, but…

I’ve been doing a lot of work on the schedule, but the list of things to do never seems to get any shorter. And so I just keep on plodding…

Well, June seems to have flown by in a flash, doesn’t it? I was really very, very busy for much of June, and for the past week in particular. I…

So I was busily working away on Thursday, going through the regular jobs on auto-pilot, thinking I had the whole day ahead of me. Which, of course, I did. Just…

Wednesday dawned and the first job of the day, after all the usual household stuff, was Week 2 of the previous start-date’s 50 crime mystery prompts workshop, which I was…

Yesterday morning started well enough, certainly better than the previous 2 days. I was up on time and at my desk on time, but the first jobs I had to…

Thank goodness the temperatures had dropped again by Monday morning. We’d had a few showers too, so the garden was looking greener in places. It’s far nicer working in a…

Friday seems like such a long time ago and, of course, I didn’t write the blog post as I went along, so now I’m trying to recall it all from…

Thursday started with me giving that story another go I’d abandoned halfway through. Yes, we’re supposed to read these stories for entertainment and if we’re not enjoying it we’re supposed…

By the end of Tuesday, UK time, the new week’s videos still weren’t up for the 50 murder mystery prompts workshop. First thing Wednesday morning, I looked, and there they…

After a really late night on Sunday I had an extra hour in bed on Monday, which put me an hour behind on the rest of the day too. I…

I was up on time on Friday, and instead of reading a newspaper or playing a game, once I’d fed and watered the garden birds, I read a short story…

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Murder at Everham Hall by Benedict Brown. This is the first book in…

I managed to get up on time on Thursday and feed and water the birds before settling down with my dirty cuppa. Instead of watching a video, though, I read…

I slept in again on Wednesday. I don’t know why I’m so tired at the moment. It’s possible I have a cold coming, or I’m fighting a cold as the…

Monday was a busy day. The day started with me catching up with jobs I hadn’t finished by the end of Friday. So while I ran a couple of backups,…

I had a very busy week last week. Most days were 12-hour days, minus 3 x 1-hour breaks, so I suppose 9-hour days, but they were still long and busy….

Many thanks to the author for sending me an updated version of Death at the Lychgate. I liked it that much, I bought a copy. This second book in the…

We noticed another casualty among our garden birds. One of the blackbirds, a male, but not sure how old he is, has lost his tail feathers. He looks a bit…

Well, we had another holiday and I scheduled 7 posts to publish, both while we were away and right after we came back. They all seem to have worked, I…

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of The Devil’s Cut by Andrew James Grieg. The Devil’s Cut is the second…

On the Friday before the holiday weekend, I struggled to get up. We both did. But I had work to do and he had meetings to attend. We were so…

June this year is quite clear. We’re not going away anywhere, and there are only 3 appointments in my diary, and one of those the poet is supposed to be…

We had the best part of 2 weeks off during the month of May, though not necessarily at the same time. So I had to squeeze a month’s work into…

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of The Bone Clock by Andrew James Grieg. This book was previously called Whirligig,…

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Deadly Secrets by Gwyn Bennett, Book…

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of Murder at Raven’s Edge by Louise…

It’s Late May Bank Holiday in the UK today, previously assigned Whit Monday. It’s a public holiday, and we’re taking it. It’s our last one until the end of August….

This is the last of my favourite pictures taken on the phone while we were doing the NC500. We saw sheep and lambs everywhere we went, and these were snapped…