Category: writer at work

Today’s picture has nothing to do with today’s post, but it’s one I received back in December for free and liked, and I just hadn’t got around to using it…

At the start of the month we had builders here, levelling the back garden and turfing it. The job wasn’t as big as they’d thought it would be as the…

By the time we woke up yesterday, the rain was supposed to have already been here for a couple of hours, but when I checked the forecasts, they all said…

So the rain we were warned would arrive by 8am yesterday and cause flash flooding everywhere never arrived. Indeed, by 8am it had even disappeared off the weather forecast. At…

I finally dipped my toe into Patreon around a year ago and I followed a handful of people on there to get an idea of what they’re posting and what…

We were up raving early on Friday because the campervan had to go for its annual MOT. It’s still in the lockup over by our old house and while the…

I started early yesterday by first getting yesterday’s blog post out of the way. I should have done it the day before, and was feeling very smug the day before,…

Today’s image has nothing to do with today’s post, but it was free and I liked it so I used it. After knocking off early on Tuesday, I felt very…

With us heading off to Dent in a few weeks, I did a bit of research on the village shop. Last time we were there, the opening hours were very…

After a lot of planning work on Friday, I was ready to go yesterday morning. And despite a bit of a disturbed night, I was up relatively on time going…

We were up at the crack of dawn on Monday morning. The decorator was coming to paint the bedroom and the inner hallway and paper a feature wall in the…

On Friday we were up bright and early because my car was due in for its annual MOT. We did think I may be able to sit and wait, but…

Thursday was a bit of a bonus day in the world of new home renovation. We didn’t have to get up early to let anyone in. No one was coming…

Quite late on Tuesday evening, the building company owner sent a text warning me that the truck was coming at 8am the next morning to cart away all the debris…

Wow, so here we are in August and it’s already the fifth of the month! What a fast and busy year we’re having. We were rudely awakened on Friday at…

Well, July went by in a bit of a flash, didn’t it? We’re having so much work done in the house I had to push a lot back to August…

And just like that, it’s the end of July… We nearly forgot to take the dog for his walk on Wednesday, we’d been so busy with the window fitters and…

I’m absolute rubbish at getting up early for anything. No matter the occasion or the reason, if I have to get up early, at some point it wipes me out….

That’s house windows, not the computer platform… The window fitters arrived at around 8:10am yesterday against an eta of 8am. They came in two vans: one to bring the windows;…

On Friday, right after work, the poet assembled the first of our new chests for the bedroom, a 10-drawer chest, 5 big ones, 5 small ones. It took him a…

I was up on time on Friday and managed to do all the regular stuff within the time slots allocated. Reading, housework, dog, dirty cuppa, all of it. In fact,…

After my appalling self-discipline on Wednesday, I was determined to Do Better on Thursday. I didn’t have any housework to do, which gave me an extra hour, and after my…

After my dirty cuppa, my reading hour and my housework hour, the first work hour of the day is supposed to be my writing hour. Yet for the past week…

The new house is starting to look a lot more like ours, with our things around us and our stamp starting to appear. And work is getting there again too….

It was nice not to have a load of stuff planned for the weekend, and the idea was to chill a bit. The poet took the entire day off on…

We had some shock news at the end of last week, in amongst all the deaths that have suddenly happened. A politician that I didn’t agree with at all was…

I tried to post this last Friday, but the internet signal via my phone just wasn’t strong enough, for some reason. So I’m posting it today instead. Today’s post was…

Right, we seem to be back to normal again now with the blog posts. Today’s is all about Friday and tomorrow’s will be the weekend and Monday. I couldn’t take…

By Tuesday I was supposed to be in the swing of things again, but I wanted to take the dog on his first proper walk in the new neighbourhood. Before…

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…