Category: writer at work

On Saturday, the plan was for the poet to go and get the campervan. It needed a wash and he was going to arrange that on the way. Then we’d…

The poet worked from home on Friday, which meant a bit of a lie in for all of us after the previous few days of him having to get up…

Too many assumptions and loose ends. Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of The Girl in the Loch by Andrew…

I forgot to mention yesterday that when I’d done the premium 40 prompts article for March, I posted it to Patreon and I submitted it to Medium. Overnight I received…

The dog wouldn’t let me go back to sleep yesterday after the poet went off to work. That’s okay, though, right? It means I get to do everything a bit…

We didn’t do a great deal at the weekend. Because we’d moved the garage fridge into the house and the house fridge into the garage the day before, we were…

On Wednesday, I had to throw the last third of a trifle away as it had gone off in the bottom of the fridge – usually the coldest part of…

By the end of play on Wednesday, my eyelids were drooping again and I felt as though I was dropping off again. I’ve noticed just lately if I spend too…

I finished an hour early on Tuesday. I was so tired, all I wanted to do was go and take a nanna nap. I had a nap on Sunday and…

Tuesday was all about getting back into the swing of things. I’d had a lazy few days and I’d let a few things slip. And it was time to pull…

Write a story around that! Friday already…The week seems to have disappeared into a puff of smoke. I barely got a thing done yesterday. In fact, I didn’t get a…

I woke up with all good intentions yesterday morning, on time and everything. I had my dirty cuppa, but I didn’t have a quiet hour because I’d already reported a…

I’ve been a day behind on the blog all week, and this one should have been posted yesterday. But yesterday’s ended up being the Hello, March! post, and Monday’s, which…

Gosh, yesterday was busy. I thought Tuesday and Wednesday had been busy, but along came Thursday, saying, ‘hold my coat!’ The day started with the poet opening his presents and…

How was your weekend? Did you have a good one? Friday I was busy all day and the first thing I did once I hit my desk, after playing with…

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of A Deadly Flame by Doug Sinclair. This is Book 3 in the DS…

Apparently, it’s Love Your Pet Dog Day today. I don’t think I need to say we love our pet dogs every day, and everyone else’s too! I’m late again today,…

Apparently, it’s Tug of War Day today. I can’t remember the last time I participated in a proper tug of war, or even watched one in action. Saying that, I…

It was Shrove Tuesday yesterday, and that makes it Ash Wednesday today. I wrote a short story a long time ago called Ash Wednesday. It was broadcast on BBC Radio…

It’s pancake day today, one of my favourite days of the year. I love pancakes, but I’ve never, ever been successful at making any. I always end up with either…

Today’s post should have been a book review, but I didn’t have one ready. So it’s the Friday/weekend catchup instead. And as tomorrow’s blog title will be ‘Pancake Day’, I…

Apparently it’s Galentine’s Day today. Hands up everyone who’s heard of Galentine’s Day? I certainly hadn’t. So of course, off I pootled to find out what it’s all about, and…

Another lazy start to the day yesterday as I headed off for my last (hopefully) appointment for the light therapy treatment. The dogs hadn’t kept us awake half the night,…

I had a nice, leisurely start to the day on Tuesday. The poet was up and away early and I was able to go back to bed…until the dogs decided…

Friday Friday started as usual with my dirty cuppa and my quiet hour. I didn’t get any reading done, and my reading hour does seem to have slipped off the…

Wednesday We had an unexpected sprinkling of snow on Tuesday night, which was nice to watch. It didn’t last long, though, as it was very wet and very quickly turned…

The weekend Saturday was tied up with just shopping and more workshop catch-up, and we took the dogs for a short walk. On our way home from the supermarket, we…

Woke up yesterday to a big blue sky, sunshine, and frost. The rain seemed a distant memory, until I went out later and saw the aftermath of some of the…

We had a bit of a rough night after Storm Chandra made landfall. America freezes and the United Kingdom floods! Is Australia on fire? The worst of the rain hasn’t…

Friday began with another trip to the hospital. My appointment was slightly later this time, due to the appointments confusion now remedied. But that meant I could have my full…