Early Monday afternoon I went to bed not feeling very well at all. We assumed I’d caught the poet’s throat, but when he got home, he took my temperature and it was 101°F. So I did a test and I
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Happy New Year!
The bit in the middle, between Christmas and New Year, has been mercifully quiet for us. We knew that we would probably crash and burn once the big day was over, and we did. On Monday, which was really Boxing
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Merry Christmas!
So we pretty much ran out of time. We did a helluva lot… but we ran out of time. Saying that, there are only a couple of things we wanted doing by *the day* that haven’t been done. We still
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Curtains!
We were supposed to break up for the Christmas holidays on Monday, but as I was clawing back time from the week before, I actually finished on Tuesday night… or Wednesday morning, as it was 3am when I turned in.
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Publication Day! And back to work!
Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. Five Slightly Sinister Short Stories is the latest of my Wordsworth Collections and it contains, well, 5 stories that are a bit sinister and a bit
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The portable garden & the pop-up office
Last week we were in beautiful Northumberland on our holidays. We came home a day early so that we could pay for, sign for and collect the keys to our new house. There will be more information on both of
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We’re orf!
We’re off on our holidays, and when we get back we’re hopefully moving house (again – I know!). I’ve scheduled a couple of easy posts, but I should be back to full throttle by the time we’ve returned and maybe
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1 May is our wedding anniversary, and this year we celebrated with a trip to one of our favourite places, Whitby. The plan was to do a 2½ mile walk, but by the time we walked from the car park
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It was my mom’s birthday at the end of April, and so we went to see her for the first time since Christmas. On the way home, we dropped in at Kingsbury Water Park. Kingsbury Water Park near Sutton Coldfield
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Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay So everything went as planned with the whole operation feeling as though it was taking place on a conveyor belt. I was the last one down. I think they were concerned about me suffering a
Read moreI ran out of time
So the big plan was to pre-schedule a load of posts to auto-post this week. But I literally ran out of time. I go into hospital tomorrow – it’s only a day visit, but there will be a general anaesthetic
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A couple of weeks ago, when lockdown easing had already started, we visited the new Sherwood Forest visitor centre, which is just a few hundred yards away from where the old centre used to be. We did the blue trail,
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The plan was to do the 2-mile promenade walk at Cleethorpes, but when we got there it seemed that the rest of England had had the same idea. Cleggie was rammed. The promenade car park was closed to all but
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Image by diapicard from Pixabay With the possibility of being allowed out again in public looming, I really, really want to lose some of this excess weight. I’ve tried every diet going, apart from the very expensive ones that seem
Read moreDomestic weekend
We manged to have another weekend off, an entire weekend to ourselves without any obligations to anyone else. And we got quite a lot of work done too, both around the house and on creative stuff. On Friday evening, the
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