Category: writer at work

The final Probate accounts have left the building. I was going to take mine to the post office yesterday to get a signed-for receipt. However, my sister was happy to…

The campervan was due in for its first service (with us) and we got up early to go and collect it. I dropped the poet off at the compound, followed…

I had a lot of catching up to do yesterday, and yet I spent the first half of the day doing bitty stuff. Like yesterday’s blog post and publication planning….

I spent most of Friday catching up with the proofreading job. I’d done my own proofreading, but now I had to consolidate mine with the author’s and the proofreader’s. It…

Oh, my goodness! I’ve only gone and chosen an image by the founder of Pixabay himself! 😮 The day started quite well yesterday. The plan was to finally send out…

While I started everything up on Wednesday, I also started my weekly tech scan for viruses. As that ran, I read through A DAY AT THE RACES and made a…

It’s almost as though I do this kind of thing for a living! We were up with the larks again yesterday because my car was booked in for what we…

We went out on Sunday to get me a long grabby thing (long-handled litter-picker) so that when I’m walking around the garden, I can easily pick up windfall apples and…

On our last night in Cork we had Italian for tea. They only had chocolate puddings, though, so we passed. I’m not keen on chocolate puddings anyway, but when those…

After we got back from our tea the poet had some work to do, so while he did that I started to brainstorm my story for 12 STORIES IN 12…

After our first trip to Durham, where I didn’t really organise myself properly, I think I’ve learnt some lessons because, so far, Ireland has been working quite well. We lost…

On the Friday we broke up for our week away, I ended up stopping work 2 hours earlier than planned because campsite #1 called and asked us to make sure…

I had a very, very busy day yesterday planning out a short story writing schedule and making sure everything was on my power spreadsheet. I also had to update my…

I was so busy before we went away I didn’t have time to schedule the July wrap-up or the Hello August posts, so here’s the first of those. July was…

We had another early start because the campervan was due in for its MOT first thing, and it was due in a whole hour before my car had been booked…

We had an early start yesterday. My car was due in for its MOT first thing and the poet was following me. I put a load of washing through while…

First I noticed that my thigh muscles are not as strong as they were. Then I realised that my core isn’t very strong either. I’ve never been one for loads…

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…