Category: writer at work
Tuesday 21 July 2026: A writing hour!
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…
Tuesday 14 July 2026: Curtains n stuff
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…
Monday 13 July 2026: No internet
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…
Tuesday 7 July 2026: Renovation plans
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…
Friday 3 July 2026: Where did the week go?
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…
Tuesday 30 June 2026: Back on it
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…
Monday 29 June 2026: All over bar the shouting
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…
Wednesday 10 June 2026: Thunderstorm!
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…
Wednesday 3 June 2026: Solicitors!
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…
Friday 29 May 2026: Proofreading
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…
Thursday 28 May 2026: Cooler…
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…
Wednesday 27 May 2026: Thunder!
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…
Friday 22 May 2026: Heatwave!
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…
Thursday 21 May 2026: Chase me!
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…
Wednesday 20 May 2026: Wet dog
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…
Tuesday 19 May 2026: Eve’s pudding
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…
Monday 18 May 2026: Rookie error
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…
Friday 15 May 2026: Lost in blogs
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…
Thursday 14 May 2026: April showers
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…
Wednesday 13 May 2026: Trifle
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…
Tuesday 12 May 2026: Getting fit
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…
Monday 11 May 2026: We may have movement…
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 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…




































