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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…

0 71  2 Comments on Friday 6 December 2024: In a rhythm again
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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…

0 71  2 Comments on Wednesday 4 December 2024: My 12-project planner
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Wednesday 4 December 2024: My 12-project planner

Isn’t my 12-project planner wonderful? I keep mentioning it, so I thought I ought to at least give you a hint of what it looks like. This image is of…

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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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Monday 2 December 2024: Hello, December!

I only have 3 full weeks in December of work, then we break up for our annual 2-week Christmas holiday. So there’s less time in which to do as much…

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Friday 29 November 2024: November wrap-up!

November didn’t go quite as planned.  Grand-doggy #1 didn’t come for a fortnight, but he did come for a few days. All Monkey Dust gigs were cancelled or postponed, so…

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Thursday 28 November 2024: 30 Writing Prompts for May 2025

Topical & evergreen ideas editors want to see Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around 6 months ahead, which means in November, I’m ‘thinking’ May, ‘writing’…

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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…

0 124  2 Comments on Tuesday 26 November 2024: Rubbish service
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Tuesday 26 November 2024: Rubbish service

Yesterday started well. We were both up in good time, we had breakfast before work started, and we were both pretty much at our desks in good time.  The first…

0 114  2 Comments on Monday 25 November 2024: Publication day!
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Monday 25 November 2024: Publication day!

I was busy on Friday trying to catch up with everything. I wrote Friday’s blog, chose the picture, published it, then shared it. I did a quick 5-minute tech declutter….

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Friday 22 November 2024: The kindness of folk

Once we were up and about yesterday morning, the first thing the poet tried to do was charge the battery on my car…but he couldn’t get the door to open….

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Thursday 21 November 2024: That was the day that was

We were up with the lark on Wednesday because the plumber was coming. He got here at 10am and had to crawl up into the loft. The loft hatch is…

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Wednesday 20 November 2024: We need a plumber

It started to snow at about 6pm on Monday and continued through the night. By morning, it had stopped and was starting to thaw. My watch told me it would…

0 131  2 Comments on Tuesday 19 November 2024: Snow watch
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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…

0 127  2 Comments on Monday 18 November 2024: Publication day!
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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…

0 169  4 Comments on Thursday 14 November 2024: Wild goose chase
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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,…

0 150  2 Comments on Wednesday 13 November 2024: I fell down a rabbit hole
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Wednesday 13 November 2024: I fell down a rabbit hole

Everything was all going so well too…But at least I was ahead, which probably had something to do with it as well. We were woken on Tuesday morning by something…

0 151  2 Comments on Tuesday 12 November 2024: A good working rhythm
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Tuesday 12 November 2024: A good working rhythm

It was a struggle to get up for some reason yesterday, but I was only an hour late to my desk, so not too bad. As I opened the curtains,…

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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…

0 153  2 Comments on Friday 8 November 2024: Friday already! Again!
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Friday 8 November 2024: Friday already! Again!

How can it be Friday already? Skipping a blog day will probably have something do do with it. The week has flown, but while I’d normally be wondering what I’d…

0 147  2 Comments on Thursday 7 November 2024: Oops, missed a day
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Thursday 7 November 2024: Oops, missed a day

I didn’t miss a day because I was being idle. I missed a day because I was busy. ALL of Tuesday was spent finishing the hard-copy proofread for my client….

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Tuesday 5 November 2024: Bonfire Night!

We didn’t do a great deal at the weekend. We did the shopping on Saturday and nipped in to see the band’s drummer. The next-door neighbour was having his chimney…

0 199  4 Comments on Monday 4 November 2024: Publication day!
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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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Friday 1 November 2024: Hello, November!

When I wrote up yesterday’s blog post, yesterday, I couldn’t remember what I’d spent most of Wednesday doing. And then I remembered. It was budget day in the UK on…

0 153  2 Comments on Thursday 31 October 2024: October wrap-up!
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Thursday 31 October 2024: October wrap-up!

I filed my tax return yesterday. Outside of finalising, publishing and sharing yesterday’s blog post, this was the first thing I did. Despite me doing all of the leg work…

0 136  2 Comments on Wednesday 30 October 2024: Tax shouldn’t be taxing…
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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…

0 137  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…

0 161  2 Comments on Monday 28 October 2024: Lazy weekend
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Monday 28 October 2024: Lazy weekend

Much of Friday was spent finishing my wonderful spreadsheet – and it truly is marvellous. I keep wanting to look at it, to touch it, to play with the figures…

0 152  4 Comments on Friday 25 October 2024: This n that
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Friday 25 October 2024: This n that

I started to write this with a view to publishing it yesterday, but it got longer and longer and longer and I still had to write yesterday’s Writing Prompts. So…

0 164  2 Comments on Thursday 26 October 2024: 33 Writing Prompts For April Stories
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Thursday 26 October 2024: 33 Writing Prompts For April Stories

Topical & evergreen ideas editors want to see Every month I do a think/write/submit writing exercise. I usually ‘think’ around 6 months ahead, which means in October, I’m ‘thinking’ April, ‘writing’…

0 167  2 Comments on Wednesday 23 October 2024: Slowly removing my digital footprint
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Wednesday 23 October 2024: Slowly removing my digital footprint

Once I ran out of daylight on Monday, I put the date work to one side to cool. Usually I go through and choose 5 of the anniversaries for my…