Category: writer’s life

I know it’s hard to believe, but I was in a right grumpy mood on Friday. The dog had been a complete pain in the butt since the workmen left…

I reached the next milestone in my weight loss journey yesterday: 5% of my body weight lost. Actually, I lost a further half a pound too, so I was very…

After such a busy few weeks, yesterday was a dream. I had chance to relax, spread out, and let my hair down. I had a lovely lie-in and when I…

Today’s picture has nothing to do with today’s post, but it was a freebie from DepositPhotos and I liked it. So now you’ve got it. On Monday, we had builders…

The pictures I’ve been using to illustrate the blog for the past week are pictures I’ve taken on our walk down to the meadow. Today’s picture was going to be…

After we finished work on Friday, we nipped out to take the dog for a walk and to drop in on the poet’s mum, as we hadn’t seen her in…

Sooo, all being well, we collect the keys to our new house today. We’ve already exchanged contracts. We just have to wait for the sellers’ estate agent to call us…

We had such a lovely, surprise weekend away in the campervan. Castleton in the High Peak is one of our favourite places and it used to be one of our…

On Friday we were supposed to be taking the dog to meet and greet the dog sitter he’s having a couple of sleepovers with later this year. But just as…

With the news that we should be getting the keys to the new house next Thursday, my first job of the day was to re-plan the rest of my month….

We both slept in on Wednesday, which meant a late start to the day and not as much work done as I’d like. And the poet had to be at…

Did you have a good bank holiday weekend? Friday was a glorious day and I plodded steadily through the day’s objectives, doing all of the usual household stuff. The clothes…

Here in the UK it’s a bank holiday today, late May bank holiday or what used to be Whitsun. And we’re taking it. If you’re taking it too, have a…

Oops, I skipped a day yesterday. I was so buried in what I was doing (more of which next week), by the time I lifted my head above the parapet…

I didn’t manage a lot of work on Friday. In fact, looking at my diary, it looks like I didn’t do any work at all. I didn’t do any workshops….

Oh my goodness. I missed on a couple of counts yesterday. First of all, I had such a stupid day on Tuesday proving I’m not a money launderer, I just…

Thursday I had a really bad start to the day on Thursday. A pain in my side woke me up at around 2:30am and it took some time to get…

I had to get up early yesterday because the roof man was apparently coming. He’d warned it was weather-dependent and as it hasn’t really stopped raining (or snowing for a…

I had a lot of work planned for yesterday. I had a short story to outline. I had a workshop to revise. I had a book to edit. And I…

Happy New Year to all of our family and friends and everyone else who reads and supports this blog. You are all appreciated and very welcome. Health and happiness to…

This post also appears on Patreon. Ah, Wednesday… Well, Wednesday was a very long time ago, or so it seems. We also had errands to run, on top of dermatology…

This post also appears on Patreon. Saturday seems to have vanished into a puff of smoke. I think we were busy, but as I write this on Monday afternoon, I’m…

This post also appears on Patreon. Friday was a busy day. The morning was taken up with my 3rd dermatology appointment (3 down, 21 to go). This appointment really does…

Storm Claudia arrived on Friday in the relatively early hours. I knew there was a storm brewing out at sea, but I didn’t know it was expected to make landfall….

And here we are, Friday again. Already mid-November (almost). Christmas isn’t far away. Before we know it, it’ll be next year! Lazy late start yesterday. Pup very kindly didn’t wake…

I forgot to pre-write the blog on Friday again. Tut, tut. Not a lot happened…well, I was very busy, but it was all the same kind of thing. Editing, pet…

So here we are. Halfway through the week, and almost at the end of October, and I still haven’t done any work this week. I’ve done some blog posts, yes….

One of the reasons I’ve been stupidly busy just lately, and a tad secretive (hate to jinx anything), is because last week we became the proud humans of not 1…

If I thought Wednesday was busy, I’d obviously never heard of Thursday, but along it came and said, ‘hold my coat…’ The day began early again, but before I’d even…

Honestly, it was like New Street Station in our house yesterday. The saying is actually ‘like Piccadilly Circus’, but my dad always used to say New Street Station, as that’s…