Category: writer at work
Tuesday 3 September 2024: Hello, September!
Ah, September! The start of my annual work schedule, which probably harks back to school and college days when the new term started in September. I don’t have an academic…
Monday 2 September 2024: August wrap-up
I seem to have vanished down a dark hole towards the end of last week. I didn’t, honest. But I was ravingly mad busy. Of course, I had this massive…
Wednesday 28 August 2024: I’ve always been PC…
No, not politically correct – I’ve never really been that kind of PC, despite being equality officer for the NUJ for a while. I mean personal computer. I’ve never been…
Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule
On Thursday night I went to bed with a good feeling: I didn’t have to get up to do any work for anyone else in the morning, only me. That…
Monday 26 August 2024: Bank holiday
It’s a bank holiday in the UK today and I’m taking the day off. If you are too, I hope you have a great day. See you tomorrow with how…
Friday 23 August 2024: Late summer bank holiday already!
I can’t believe we’re at the late summer bank holiday weekend already! Where on earth did that year go? It’s shooting by in a blur. By the end of the…
Thursday 22 August 2024: Probate papers have left the building!
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…
Wednesday 21 August 2024: Converting books
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…
Tuesday 20 August 2024: I did a BIG job yesterday
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….
Monday 19 August 2024: More unexpected DIY
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…
Friday 16 August 2024: Up to my neck in pictures
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…
Thursday 15 August 2024: Back in a trade union!
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…
Wednesday 14 August 2024: I wrote another short story…
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…
Tuesday 13 August 2024: Happy dentist
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…
Monday 12 August 2024: Blarney Castle
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…
Friday 9 August 2024: It’s NOT piracy – it’s deliberate 😕
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…
Thursday 8 August 2024: Working in Ireland
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…
Wednesday 7 August 2024: A week away
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…
Tuesday 6 August 2024: The month ahead
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…
Monday 5 August 2024: July wrap-up
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…
Friday 26 July 2024: Another early start
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…
Thursday 25 July 2024: Editing all day
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…
Wednesday 24 July 2024: Feeling old
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…
Tuesday 23 July 2024: Two jobs a day
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…
Monday 22 July 2024: Busy week ahead
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…
Friday 19 July 2024: Free image Friday
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….
Thursday 18 July 2024: Announcement!
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…
Wednesday 17 July 2024: Soapbox alert
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…
Tuesday 16 July 2024: The garden needs attention
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…
Monday 15 July 2024: A dog for the week
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…
Friday 11 July 2024: I’m writing words!
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…
Thursday 11 July 2024: Early mornings ahead
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…
Wednesday 10 July 2024: Spoke too soon?
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…