Words Worth Writing

I’ve been doing a lot of sorting out just lately. Sorting out my mind, sorting out what I want to do in the future, sorting NetGalley books, sorting out my…

Image by skypistudio from DepositPhotosI’m really struggling to get going again at the moment, and I think much had to do with the busy-ish day I knew was coming up…

I didn’t do any work on Friday. I didn’t do a lot on Thursday either. Instead, on Thursday, I finished reading the book I started on Tuesday. And on Friday…

A couple of days ago I opened up my NetGalley shelf determined to start catching up with all the books I have on there to review. It’s been a few…

I had a much more relaxed start to the day yesterday. I was up on time, before the poet left for work, and he’d made me my dirty cuppa alongside…

I still wasn’t in the right place to do any work on Wednesday, so instead we tackled the office. The office was a bit of a dumping ground when we…

After a semi-disastrous September start to my new working year, October will now be the time of great resetting. I had a few days away from the computer, away from…

September is usually a really good month for me and my work and my productivity. September 2026, however, had other plans. The poet was quite poorly, causing us to come…

Monday was a flurry of activity and I got a lot done. Tuesday was less great. Much less great. I just couldn’t get going. Instead, I fannied and faffed around,…

The poet was very good yesterday. He managed to get up only a few minutes after his alarm went off. I, however, chose to have a further 45 minutes! It…

I finally got my act together a bit more on Friday by clearing out all of my blog posts from Patreon. I left the month ahead and monthly wrap-up posts…

And here we are, the last Friday in September. Wow. First thing Thursday morning I received an email from the support team at KDP. My request for an exemption from…

Yesterday was all nicely laid out with the next tasks all pigeonholed for the day…and then I woke up to an email from Amazon asking me for a detailed response…

We actually got up at the time we planned to get up yesterday. Progress at last? Let’s see if we can keep it up. The poet is due back at…

I was slow getting started yesterday. I don’t know why. I was a bit tired after the weekend, and having my sleep disturbed three nights on the trot by a…

Friday was more busy than it looks when I go down and tick things off, but the truth is, I worked on a few large jobs rather than a lot…

Okay, so we may have lost most of the first half of September to holidays and sickness, but the rest of the month sure is moving on by in a…

Today’s image is another from our campsite 2 weeks ago, the last one I’ll be using this week. We slept in again on Wednesday. You can’t half tell someone isn’t…

Today’s image is another from our campsite 2 weeks ago. I’ll be using these pictures all this week, just to give an idea of why we keep going back there…

Today’s image is another from our campsite 2 weeks ago. I’ll be using these pictures all this week, just to give an idea of why we keep going back there…

Today’s image is another from our campsite 2 weeks ago. I might just use these pictures all this week, just to give an idea of why we keep going back…

After a busy week and a busy weekend we had a lovely few days away at one of our favourite places. We’ve been to Dent in Cumbria, on the edge…

Today’s picture has nothing to do with today’s post, but it’s one I received back in December for free and liked, and I just hadn’t got around to using it…

September is the time of new beginnings for me, but instead of work, we’re starting September this year with a holiday. That means I have a week less than usual…

At the start of the month we had builders here, levelling the back garden and turfing it. The job wasn’t as big as they’d thought it would be as the…

Here in the UK it’s a bank holiday today, late summer bank holiday. And we’re taking it. If you’re taking it too, have a good one!

By the time we woke up yesterday, the rain was supposed to have already been here for a couple of hours, but when I checked the forecasts, they all said…

So the rain we were warned would arrive by 8am yesterday and cause flash flooding everywhere never arrived. Indeed, by 8am it had even disappeared off the weather forecast. At…

I finally dipped my toe into Patreon around a year ago and I followed a handful of people on there to get an idea of what they’re posting and what…

We were up with the larks on Saturday because we had to get the dog to doggy daycare ahead of the daughter’s wedding. The dog sitter is only 15 minutes…