Category: writer at work

Hot on the heels of the house move from hell – or should that be *in* hell? – the poet’s first day back at work was a looooong drive south…

Wahey! We’re in! But, oh, what a long and horrid slog it was in the end. Nothing to do with the house move itself. Just the sheer amount of stuff…

Yesterday started out really well. I was up on time and didn’t waste any time on housework. I did, however, have a proper reading hour to set me up for…

I didn’t get around to any of the republishing last week. Most of the time it was too darned hot. The rest of the time I was just doing other…

Normally, today’s post would be the monthly wrap-up, as it’s the last working day of the month. But there are 2 days left in the month including the weekend, plus…

For the past 2 days I’ve been so drugged up overnight that I’ve really struggled to wake up, let alone get out of bed. The pills we have last about…

The weather at the weekend was awful. Intolerable. Even the poet, who’s a bit of a sun-worshipper, said it was unbearable. But…we had lots of warning and we knew it…

On Thursday I actually managed to get some work done again. I was up on time, because the poet was off to the second day of his 2-day conference. He…

Wednesday was much the same as the day before. Household chores, cup of tea, reading, exercises, dog walking, etc, etc. The day started on time and I didn’t stop for…

Yesterday was a good day. I’d submitted yesterday’s job the day before, and had the day before’s job to do yesterday. Which took the heat off a bit. I had…

I had a busy day yesterday, but there wasn’t a lot of work-work involved. I was up on time, I fed the dog, made the poet and me a cuppa…

I had a good and steady day on Friday, gradually plodding through each of my chores and tasks, ticking them off as I went. But once all the housework stuff…

We had a much better morning yesterday. The poet was working from home, so no stupidly early start. And by lunchtime (or our midday breakfast time), I’d slowly plodded through…

So the poet was up with the larks again yesterday as he had to be ‘oop north’ before 9am. I know we’re already up north, both to me and some…

Tuesday was a lot better than Monday, or a lot more successful in any case. My dirty cuppa was less dirty than usual in that I used sweetener tablets instead…

Monday’s schedule went right out of the window. I was already late with the blog post, so that didn’t set me up for a good start to the day. But…

Friday was a fair day in which I did get some tangible work done. The day started as usual and on time. I did my reading over my dirty cuppa…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…