Words Worth Writing

Grand-doggy #1 came on Thursday evening for a visit. The plan, therefore, was to take him out every day for a walk. So far, he’s been out twice. The garden’s…

Many thanks to NetGalley and to Storm Publishing for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of The Pearl Thief by Fiona McIntosh. This is my first introduction to Fiona…

I re-designated the flylady hour as the faff hour. I still have the housework and daily chores to do, but I wasn’t liking the regimental aspect of it. Yes, I…

Over my dirty cuppa on Tuesday I actually caught up on social media. Once dressed, I fed and watered the birds and I emptied the dishwasher. It looks as though…

I finished work early on Friday because we were doing the shopping early. Our Saturday was already fully booked in advance and Friday evening was the only chance we had….

We struggled to get up on Friday, probably because we’d been so rudely awakened the day before when we thought we were getting a lie in. It resulted in both…

It’s publication day today for my SHORT STORY The Ace of Pentacles, Short Tarot Tale #4.  This story is Vanessa’s backstory, Stevie Beck’s antagonist in the Horvale cosy mysteries.  The…

The poet’s new company car was arriving yesterday, and it was due to land at around 8am. They were collecting his old car too, a different company, but we didn’t…

Saturday was a working day for me, or a semi-working day. Because of all the IT shenanigans, I’d lost a lot of time in the week before and I only…

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,…

So, we’re now into September, the start of our academic year and, historically, the start of my working year. It’s generally the start of new beginnings for me, new attitudes….

It’s publication day today for Killer Queen, Wordsworth Short #41. I did a pop-up workshop on writing locked room mysteries, and the assignment was to write a locked room mystery…

So August flew by, didn’t it? The new schedule seems to have worked. A lot. However, when we lost the internet, work was taking longer than it needed to and…

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…

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…

It’s publication day today for Mavis Braithwaite Strikes Again, Wordsworth Short #40. This story originally started out as Shampoo, Set and Match, and it was written for a crime writing…

It’s Summer Bank Holiday in the UK today. It’s a public holiday, and we’re taking it.  If you’re taking today off too, enjoy!

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…

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…

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…

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…

It’s publication day today for my collection of ten very short stories, Ten Very Short Stories: Wordsworth Flash Fiction 1 – 10. I’d say this one took a lot of work,…

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….

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…