Author: Diane

Chapter 54: Wednesday 16 November I’m running a bit behind on my NaNo at the moment, mostly due to all the red-tape stuff I had to do last week. I’ve been dipping in and out, but I’ve not had chance to give it a full run and I don’t currently know where I am on the word-count. Another thing that’s...

Chapter 53: Friday 11 November Saturday Saturday should have been Day 4 of NaNoWriMo, but it turned into a day of household chores. The poet popped out at midday to go and setup for a wedding Monkey Dust were playing at Saturday night. This gave us time to have a proper, civilised tea, and the animals weren’t left as long...

Chapter 52: Saturday 5 November For the duration of NaNoWriMo, Diary of a Tiger will go back to weekly posts, appearing on a Saturday with a round-up of the week. I’m posting daily updates for NaNo on weekdays only, the morning after the pertinent writing day. Tuesday I had a lot to do on Tuesday as it was the first day...

Chapter 51: Tuesday 1 November November already… This year has flown by. Friday On Friday morning we had the 3rd of our 4 appointments for last week. The poet’s car was due in for some urgent maintenance and update (it had 2 recalls in the time it took us to get someone to agree to see it), so I had...

Chapter 50: Friday 28 October I was whizzed through the 6:40pm appointment on Wednesday at record speed and by 8pm we’d eaten and were home again. We had Burger King and Dunkin’ Donuts for tea, which was a nice treat. And we bought enough doughnuts for yesterday and today as well. First job of the day was another book publication,...

Chapter 49: Thursday 27 October Wednesday was a bit discombobulated due to the regular diary being disrupted slightly. It was the second of this week’s four appointments where I had to put on real clothes and go out. I also couldn’t eat anything after 12 noon due to the ultrasound later in the day at 6:40pm… I mean, who has...

Chapter 48: Wednesday 26 October For the second day on the trot, I made it to my desk by 10am, and it didn’t even involve having to get up and go out at the crack of dawn. What actually happened was that the poet had gone off to work and I realised that we hadn’t put the bin out. So...

Chapter 47: Tuesday 25 October I had a difficult night on Thursday night due to both the dog and the cat waking me up not once but twice. Each. They always wake me up and not the poet. Probably because he sleeps through it anyway. The second time the cat woke me up she jumped on my shoulder (I was...

Chapter 46: Friday 21 October The rain returned yesterday, with a vengeance, and promptly started to pour in through the conservatory. I reported this at the end of last month, and it was acknowledged on 1 October. Since then we’ve heard nothing. It’s okay when the weather is dry, which it has been apart from an occasional shower here and...

Chapter 45: Thursday 20 October I’m doing a few diaries on the trot at the moment because I’m still not back into the swing of my regular weekly chores. I am reading the next book for review, so as soon as that’s done, there’ll be a Tuesday book review. And I’m also gradually looking for a planner that works for...