0 550  2 Comments on Monday 17 February 2025: ‘Albatross! Albatross! Alabatross…’
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Monday 17 February 2025: ‘Albatross! Albatross! Alabatross…’

I was up on time on Friday and I read a daily newspaper over my first dirty cup of tea of the day. I didn’t play any games and I…

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Friday 14 February 2025: Valentine’s Day!

It’s Valentine’s Day today and we have roses and cards in the house. We don’t have red (Lancaster) roses in our house, we have white, Yorkshire roses. (I’m married to…

0 570  2 Comments on Thursday 13 February 2025: Home!
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Thursday 13 February 2025: Home!

I thought I’d have time to write up and post a blog by late morning, but I’m a bit late again. On Tuesday I closed work down early as we…

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Wednesday 12 February 2025: Roadtrip

Image by Miriam Verheyden from Pixabay Monday was roadtrip time again. I didn’t post in detail about it before because of, you know, contents insurance. Or it being voided due…

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Tuesday 11 February 2025: Fog

I had a lot of problems last week trying to upload the latest 3 books I’m publishing to Google Play Books. It was always so easy before, but I think…

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Monday 10 February 2025: Publication day!

It’s publication day today for my VERY SHORT STORY Happy Valentine, Flash Fiction #12. This is a story I wrote a long time ago and it appeared in Flash Fiction…

0 498  2 Comments on Friday 7 February 2025: A publishing day
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Friday 7 February 2025: A publishing day

Yesterday turned into a bit of a publishing day. I still have a few books to get out before I push the publishing side of things to one side, and…

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Thursday 6 February 2025: Short n sweet

How can it be Thursday already? So, I didn’t move into the living room in the end to do the client edit on Tuesday. I remembered (and saw) the reading…

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Wednesday 5 February 2025: Nice and steady

We’ve started this 16:8 eating thing and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. For the most part, I’ll be having 2 light meals and 1 main meal in…

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Tuesday 4 February 2025: A bit of a whirl

So, at the end of Wednesday last week, Fallen Angel decided it didn’t want to be written yet. I’d made a start on the first chapter and managed 401 words….

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Monday 3 February 2025: Hello February!

At the time of writing I was still up against the clock with Book 3 of the great novella challenge. It was looking good, though, and definitely achievable. Tune in…

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Friday 31 January 2025: January wrap-up!

I’m up against the clock today, and yesterday, so just the wrap-up today. January wrap-up! create graphic for Hello January ✔️ create graphic for January wrap-up ✔️ new word-count spreadsheet…

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Thursday 30 January 2025: Deadline days

It was our first deadline day of the year yesterday for 12 Stories in 12 Months on Deadlines for Writers. I’d finished a very rough draft of the 1,200-word story…

0 569  2 Comments on Wednesday 29 January 2025: Rhythm
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Wednesday 29 January 2025: Rhythm

I didn’t write up Tuesday’s blog post until Tuesday morning, thanks to my procrastination on Monday. Once it was written, I posted it and shared it. Then I allowed myself…

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Tuesday 28 January 2025: Good weekend

I didn’t do any work at the weekend. That’s one reason it was a good one. It meant I wasn’t so behind on anything that I felt the need to…

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Monday 27 January 2025: Publication day!

I’m so stupidly pleased with myself that I got Words Worth Reading Issue Two out before the end of January. It’s had a couple of false starts over the past…

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Friday 24 January 2025: Friday already – again!

So before I did actually call it a day on Wednesday, I contacted Support at Google Play Books. The techie there had a good look at everything and asked me…

0 630  4 Comments on Thursday 23 January 2025: Slight change of plan
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Thursday 23 January 2025: Slight change of plan

I had one of those nights where I wake up from a deep sleep with a solution I didn’t even know I was looking for.  I’d already decided that I…

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Wednesday 22 January 2025: A good, solid day

I managed to get up before the alarm on Tuesday, which was a great start. But I wanted to finish reading a book for review. It’s a re-read because the…

0 488  2 Comments on Tuesday 21 January 2025: Exercises
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Tuesday 21 January 2025: Exercises

I had a late start yesterday. The poet was up early as he had a long drive ahead of him, and I made the mistake of going back to bed….

0 658  4 Comments on Monday 20 January 2025: Studying
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Monday 20 January 2025: Studying

We had an early start on Friday. It was the mother-in-law’s birthday and we wanted to take her card and gifts up before midday if possible, but the poet had…

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Friday 17 January 2025: Life’s too short

Once I’d fed the birds, had breakfast, got dressed, all those kinds of things, I checked in at my desk and went to collect the third lot of videos for…

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Thursday 16 January 2025: Keeping busy

Before I did anything else yesterday morning, I threw several buckets of warm, soapy water at the patio to clean up some of the trash the birds had left during…

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Wednesday 15 January 2025: Changes afoot

Tuesday started well. And then it took a nosedive. But in a goodish way as it made me to a major rethink. As we were up early, I didn’t fancy…