Category: writer at work

The weather forecast for Saturday was way too hot for us to take the dog for a walk, so the day out we’d originally planned for Saturday was moved to…

I was struggling a bit to get up a whole hour earlier, but while I had the dog with me, I had to get up earlier. So I compromised and…

Today’s free image was so cheerful and energetic, I just had to use it. I love yellow. The poet was up bright and early to head back to the midlands….

I had a bit of a slow, lazy start to the day yesterday. The temperature finally reached something close to ‘normal’ for summer and I thought it was too hot…

We had a good evening, the dog and I. We didn’t go for another walk as we played ball instead in the garden. For hours. He got lots of sticky…

We were up early because the poet was off to the midlands for a week-long business trip. The dog had a mad run around the garden, but then went back…

We were up very early on Friday because I had a very early (to us!) review appointment at the hospital. We got there on time and by the time the…

We were up with the lark, or our lark at least, and off to the garage with the poet’s car. It was going in for its first MOT, a health…

From today, we have a week-and-a-half of early starts. Today one of the cars has to go in for MOT and service. Tomorrow, we’re at the hospital. We have a…

I’m pleased to say that updated accounts *did* in fact arrive at the end of the day on Monday from our new Probate case handler. Unfortunately, we have now completely…

(Well, almost) (I mean, aside from wars and famine) (and poverty…) (edited to add: and also possibly Probate…but don’t hold your breath) The past few days I’ve woken up in…

After a late night on Thursday watching the election results as they started to unfold, we had a relatively early start on Friday morning. We woke to find that the…

I was very late to my desk yesterday. Two hours late. Not good enough. I’d had another rough night, but still. Perhaps if I get up at the right time…

We had a naked prawn linguine for tea on Tuesday, which was delicious, followed by meringue nests with fruit and yoghurt (for me) and ice cream (for him). While he…

After a bit of a rough night, we were up relatively early to take the poet to the dentist. He was full of cold (hence the rough night) and secretly…

We had a lovely Friday/Saturday with grand-doggy #1. We took him for a stroll on Friday night and returned him to his humans at around 11:30 the following morning. We…

Ohmygosh, I forgot to post my June wrap-up on Friday! That’s what happens when the first and/or last days of the month fall at the weekend! Here’s a quick run-through…

I was at my desk fairly early on Thursday morning as I had a dentist appointment in the middle of the day, for which I had to factor in travel…

The plan was to step away from the newsletter for a day or so and get on with some other work. However, there was one thing I wanted to do:…

Last few pics from Poland. Again, only for illustrative purposes. I started Tuesday by finishing Monday’s jobs, the first one being yesterday’s blog. Once that was done, I forced myself…

I’ve included a few more scenes from Poland today, but only for illustrative purposes. It took me a while to get going on Monday. First of all, it was the…

We got up on time on Tuesday morning last week and headed south to East Midland Airport. It’s not the nicest of airports and we didn’t have the best experience…

After a late night on Sunday submitting the cosy mystery for the anthology, Monday started later than usual. Over breakfast, though, I dealt with emails, one of which had come…

Sunday was Father’s Day and I had up to 2 stories to write and a blog post. One of the stories, THE KNIGHT OF WANDS, had to be in by…