Category: writer at work
Wednesday 3 September 2025: Organised chaos
Thursday and Friday were a bit chaotic. Thursday Thursday began with my dirty cuppa and with me doing what I could on the limited mobile signal on the mobile phone,…
Thursday 28 August 2025: Back to work-ish
So, the Sky engineer, or a sub-contractor for their, erm, sub-contractor, turned up at our next-door neighbour’s house first thing on Tuesday. Our next-door neighbour told her that their other…
Wednesday 27 August 2025: A weekend away
Because I was so tired on Thursday, I allowed myself an extra half an hour on Friday morning before the alarm going off. I started the day with my dirty…
Friday 22 August 2025: Bank holiday weekend ahead!
Ohmygosh, I was soooo tired on Wednesday night, we went to bed early and as soon as my head hit that pillow I was literally gone. The next thing I…
Thursday 21 August 2025: Editing all day
I had to get up early yesterday because the campervan had to go in to have some work done to get it through its MOT. I drove to the lock-up…
Wednesday 20 August 2025: Lots of stuff
My flylady hours are a bit stunted this week. I’m still spending time doing quick and easy things, but I’m not concentrating on a room a day. But only for…
Tuesday 19 August 2025: A 2-gig weekend
A lot of our friends have 2-gig weekends. Many have 3-gig weekends. And when there’s a bank holiday, they have 4- or 5-gig weekends, some with 2 gigs in one…
Friday 15 August 2025: Still publishing…
Phew! What a busy day I had yesterday. And I thought it would all be so quick and simple too. Serves me right for being such a perfectionist, I suppose….
Thursday 14 August 2025: Publishing
I had a bit to catch up on yesterday, the first of which was yesterday’s blog post. I had all intentions on getting today’s done yesterday too, but here I…
Wednesday 13 August 2025: Newsletter imminent…
Yesterday seems like quite a while ago, probably because it was a busy day. Much of the day for me was taken up with writing. I even had a stunted…
Monday 11 August 2025: Publication Day!
It’s publication day today for my SHORT STORY The Ace of Swords, Short Tarot Tale #3. This story is Fal’s backstory, the policeman in the Stevie Beck/Horvale cosy mysteries. The…
Friday 8 August 2025: Up to date?
It’s Friday today and I think I may finally be up to date. Yay! Saying that, yesterday does seem to have disappeared down a dark hole. The day started okayish….
Thursday 7 August 2025: This week!
Well, it’s Thursday already, and I’m only just catching up on this week. At least it is this week, though, and not last week still. The weekend Monkey Dust had…
Wednesday 6 August 2025: Catching up for last week
I’m way behind on the blog posts at the moment. I’ll try and keep them short and sweet so that I can catch up a bit. Last Tuesday By the…
Tuesday 5 August 2025: Last Tuesday
Well, the weekly blog posts went a bit awry a bit quick there. I did notice in time to change the publication date of the bookazine, so that I could…
Tuesday 29 July 2025: Very Busy
We had a Very Busy weekend. Saturday On Saturday, we took our Covid tests, and once we had the go ahead, we went out and did the shopping, via the…
Monday 28 July 2025: Customer care still lives!
And here we are already, in the last few days of July. I have a calendar on the wall over my desk. It’s a Christmas gift every year from the…
Friday 25 July 2025: Getting better, slowly
Slow start to the day yesterday. We’re both still really struggling with Covid, and neither of us is definitely clear of it yet. We both think we can do something,…
Thursday 24 July 2025: Well, that escalated quickly…
With the poet testing positive for Covid on Thursday evening, first job Friday morning was moving a couple of dental appointments around. I was supposed to be in yesterday afternoon…
Friday 18 July 2025: It was all going so well
Everything was going really well. I was getting through my work and I wasn’t feeling stressed. Nothing was left waiting. I was managing to shift it all. Yesterday, the day…
Thursday 17 July 2025: Fairly productive
We had a very late night on Tuesday, for some reason, which resulted in us both struggling to get up on Wednesday. We had to drag ourselves out of bed,…
Wednesday 16 July 2025: It rained!
The day started well again yesterday. Especially when we woke to see it had rained. Yay! I began the work day with revisiting the diary again and lumping jobs all…
Tuesday 15 July 2025: St Swithun’s Day
I think we’ll start with some good news today. Well, good news for me at least. We got back from Stratford a week ago on Saturday. Between then and yesterday,…
Monday 14 July 2025: Where did *that* weekend go?
Honestly, blink and you miss it these days. While Friday does seem a long time ago, I seem to have completely missed the weekend… I had a lot to do…


































