Category: writer at work
Friday 8 May 2026: Unexpected road works
Friday already! In only a few weeks, the nights will start drawing in again. It’s madness how fast the years go by these days… The poet came home from work…
Thursday 7 May 2026: Admin
Wednesday morning was all about bitty admin stuff. Once I’d done my usual household chores and read a couple of chapters of my book, first job of the day was…
Wednesday 6 May 2026: It rained!
On Friday the poet cut the grass because I was already doing a rain dance for the weekend. It’s true, I had seen a blanket forecast for the entire UK…
Tuesday 5 May 2026: Good work!
I promised that today’s post would appear yesterday, but I’d forgotten that yesterday was a bank holiday, and bank holidays get their own kind of blog post. Sorry about that,…
Friday 1 May 2026: Hello, May!
In future, the month ahead post will be on the second working day of the month rather than the first working day month. This is to accommodate a more accurate…
Wednesday 29 April 2026: Sunny weekend
At the weekend, I had every intention on making a good start on the packing. We’ve not done any yet, so I resolved to try and do one thing every…
Tuesday 28 April 2026: Pottering in the garden
As I hadn’t lost any weight since going onto plain water during my fasting hours, I went back to the dirty tea first thing. If it wasn’t having any affect,…
Friday 24 April 2026: Good news at last!
We had a really, really good start to the day yesterday. The dog got us up before the alarm went off again. Three times. First he wanted out. Then he…
Thursday 23 April 2026: Happy St George’s Day!
I must say, starting the working day an hour later during BST seems to be working. Although I’m often up around half an hour before the alarm (puppy…), this seems…
Wednesday 22 April 2026: More publishing
Overnight I had a return email regarding the workshop I wanted to join in May. Yes, the study along had been cancelled, but not because of a low uptake. They…
Tuesday 21 April 2026: Republishing
Last week’s hoo-ha really knocked me back and I’m trying my hardest to catch up again. I get far too enraged by everything these days, it seems. I really am…
Monday 20 April 2026: What do readers want?
Hundreds of people read or visit this blog every day. Hundreds of people subscribe to it. If anyone wants to comment on something I’ve written, some comment on the blog…
Friday 17 April 2026: Draft2Digital – read the room!
So, after moving everything along by an hour on my daily schedule, the dog decided we were getting up at the old regular time anyway. We tried to resist, but…
Thursday 16 April 2026: Phantom scales
It was so much easier yesterday getting up an hour later. There was no pressure for me to get up before I was ready and, in actual fact, I got…
Wednesday 15 April 2026: Surprise visit
After I finished for the day on Monday, and after tea, we changed the bed. The reason this is even being noted is because we swapped out the brushed cotton…
Tuesday 14 April 2026: April showers
After strong winds last week, and some squally storms, it seems April showers proper finally arrived at the weekend. We went out for walks on both days, and on both…
Monday 13 April 2026: Editing, editing, editing…
After I’d closed down on Thursday, I realised I hadn’t done my daily words. My eyes were tired and I’d finished early to give them a rest. But not ticking…
Friday 10 April 2026: All about weight loss, or not…
And here we are again. Another Friday and almost at the halfway point for the month of April. So scary. Yesterday did not start as well as the day before….
Thursday 9 April 2026: Getting on with it
Yesterday was such a good day, starting bang on time over a dirty cuppa. I had my reading half hour and a housework half hour then took the dog for…
Wednesday 8 April 2026: Catching up…
In my bid to catch up and reset, the plan yesterday was to touch everything at least once and then move on until I was up to date. Of course…
Tuesday 7 April 2026: Resetting…
Wow! Here we are, 7 days into the merry month of April and I haven’t even published a regular blog post. Until today. So where has the month so far…
Monday 30 March 2026: Disturbed sleep
Today’s blog post would normally be a book review. But as I’ve completely stalled on a book I was reading for review (not sure I’m going to do the formal…
Friday 27 March 2026: British Summer Time
And here we are again. Not only is it Friday already, it’s also the last weekend of March. Our clocks go forward tomorrow night/Sunday morning, which I’m not looking forward…
Thursday 26 March 2026: Killing your ‘enemies’, slowly (not really…)
I had a rubbish night on Monday and ended up sitting up for 2 hours in the dark waiting for a reflux to subside. Normally I’d read, but I was…
Wednesday 25 March 2026: Reading practice
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…
Tuesday 24 March 2026: New eyes
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…
Book Review: The Girl in the Loch by Andrew James Greig
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…
Friday 20 March 2026: Tech woes (again!)
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…
Thursday 19 March 2026: Number crunching
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…
Wednesday 18 March 2026: A good thrashing…
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…



































