Friday 21 November 2025: More snow!

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 scoffed and muttered, ‘you’re a day late, pal,’ and just to prove it I glanced up at the window. And it was snowing. 

I kid you not. Big, fat, fluffy flakes of snow were indeed falling in their abundance. I immediately let the dogs out to see what they thought of it and…it was quite boring, really. Neither of them seemed to notice it, let alone mind it. And this the puppy’s first snowfall too.

Ah, well. Despite the sky being surprisingly full of the stuff and it looking as though it was in for the day, by the time we were on our midday breakfasts, it was all gone. But it was nice while it lasted. And in only just over a week, it will be snowing on Words Worth Writing too. My favourite time of year.

I fed the dogs and read a chapter of Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken. When I was dressed, I fed the birds, played with the dogs in the garden, and emptied the kitchen bins. When I eventually made it to my desk, I did yesterday’s blog post and made a start on today’s, keeping my fingers crossed I could keep on top of it and get it scheduled by the end of the day. The dogs carried on playing indoors and before I knew it, it was breakfast time. Whoosh! The morning was gone.

After breakfast, it was back to the editing. The dogs were sleeping off half a carrot each so I was finally able to take advantage of what daylight we have at the moment. Work is so much easier when you can see what you’re doing. I’m turning the internet off while I work on this job too, as it’s just easier to just do it in Word without letting Word crawl all over my system.

I changed my animated wallpaper to falling snow in a forest, and I added a sticky note to my screen to remind me to schedule in my tax return for last year. This year I’ve been keeping on top of my finances every week so it won’t take as long to do the next return. But for last year’s I still have to collate everything together.

The rest of the day, the absolute rest of the day, was spent editing. I stopped work at 7pm less than 20 pages short of the end of the job. Word was really annoying me, because the author has clearly copied and pasted the bulk of the last 2 chapters from somewhere, and Word, all by itself, has changed the background of this copied text. 

Yes, I know how to remove the formatting, but there are notes in this document, more than 300 notes, and changing the formatting changes the note reference numbers. And I really, really hate note references equally as much as I really, really hate Word.

Less than twenty pages, though. This should be off my desk before the end of the day, said she hopefully…

Have a super weekend!

(Yay! I scheduled this to post yesterday evening…)