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11 January 2023

Wednesday 11 Jan 2023: All clean!

The poet went into the office today, so that meant we were up earlier and that meant I was at my desk earlier. Pomodoros Don’t forget, these pomodoros are 50 minutes each rather than 25 minutes each, short breaks are 10 minutes, and long breaks are 60 minutes. Pomodoro 1 A while ago I got sick and tired of the...

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10 January 2023

Tuesday 10 Jan 2023: 10 January already?!

Can you believe it’s 10 January already? Time flies ever quicker with each passing year. The dog didn’t get his twilight trot on Friday, or even his moonlight stroll. We did the shopping and bought a readymeal because we didn’t have the energy to go to the takeaway on the way home, and if we’d ordered a delivery, by the...

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9 January 2023

Monday 9 Jan 2023: Too much television

We almost forgot to take the tree down on Thursday night, so it was a mad frantic rush to do that and pack away all of the decorations. The tree and the wreath both went into the garden as it was too dark and too late to do anything with them. A lot of the smaller ornaments were left in...

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6 January 2023

Friday 6 Jan 2023: lurgy house

While tea cooked on Wednesday night, I sat down and caught up with the rest of the daily competitions that had built up over the previous few weeks. That meant that from Thursday, it should only take 10 – 15 minutes each time, leaving another 35 minutes to fit in the online workshop videos. This, in turn, gives me a...

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5 January 2023

Thursday 5 Jan 2023: New Kickstarter to back

New Kickstarter campaign On Tuesday evening an email came in from Kickstarter with news on the latest Dean Wesley Smith/Kristine Kathryn Rusch campaign: Fantasies Collide. I didn’t even know what a kickstarter was until I started to read Smith’s blog posts. Since then, I’ve backed several and received masses of extras, including far too many books to read and online...

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4 January 2023

Wednesday 4 Jan 2023: Pomodoro Baby!

Tuesday started really late for me. This was too bad as it was the first day of the new year and I had great plans to follow. The problem was, we got up late, and we got up late because we binge-watched the first series of Happy Valley on Monday night. I didn’t bother suggesting we watch it when it...

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3 January 2023

Book Review: Coming Home to Mistletoe Cottage

This feature is in association with NetGalley. Apologies for the bauble on the graphic when it’s no longer Christmas. I did finish the book a couple of weeks ago but writing up the review was one of the things that didn’t get done in time. Coming Home to Mistletoe Cottage by Celia Anderson Many thanks to NetGalley and to Harper...

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2 January 2023

And so the new year begins… with new NOTEBOOKS!

Christmas and New Year are over but today is still a holiday in the UK. We were going to go out as we should have gone out on Sunday but didn’t because I’m full of cold and with a snot monster in residence. So we said we’d go out today, and then we remembered that I was awaiting a delivery....

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29 December 2022

Happy New Year!

The bit in the middle, between Christmas and New Year, has been mercifully quiet for us. We knew that we would probably crash and burn once the big day was over, and we did. On Monday, which was really Boxing Day, we did nothing. We got up late, we didn’t go anywhere, we didn’t call anyone. We just chilled. The...

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23 December 2022

Merry Christmas!

So we pretty much ran out of time. We did a helluva lot… but we ran out of time. Saying that, there are only a couple of things we wanted doing by *the day* that haven’t been done. We still have tomorrow, but we’re already going to see my mom tomorrow so we’ll just have to see what we feel...

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16 December 2022

Curtains!

We were supposed to break up for the Christmas holidays on Monday, but as I was clawing back time from the week before, I actually finished on Tuesday night… or Wednesday morning, as it was 3am when I turned in. The holiday so far has been all about curtains. While I carried on working on Tuesday, the poet nipped out to...

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14 December 2022

Diary of a Tiger: Tue 13 Dec 2022

Chapter 59: Tuesday 13 December When I started to draft today’s post, I wasn’t sure yet if it would be published on Monday or Tuesday. If I finish all my work on time, i.e. before we break up, then it will be Monday. If not, then it will be Tuesday. I was billing the last episode as the penultimate chapter,...

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9 December 2022

Diary of a Tiger: Fri 9 Dec 2022

Chapter 58: Friday 9 December It’s the last few days of Diary of a Tiger, which is both refreshing and scary. Refreshing because it’s a year old and I need to do something, well, fresh. Scary because, well, what do I do next? I’ve already done some loose planning and I think I have a working idea. Nevertheless, the weekend...

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7 December 2022

Diary of a Tiger: Wed 7 Dec 2022

Chapter 57: Wednesday 7 December First job of the day today was planning work. I already know I have a lovely new FiloFax coming for Christmas, along with day to a page inserts and to-do lists, but I still keep my A4 ring-binder for the think/write/submit topical short story ideas. So I needed next year’s calendars for that – a...

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6 December 2022

Diary of a Tiger: Tue 6 Dec 2022

Chapter 56: Tuesday 6 December (or… I don’t have a book review at the moment so the diary will have to do…) At the end of last week I wrote to the fan fiction ghostwriting client and offered her my services as an editor instead of a writer. I really don’t feel comfortable writing fan fiction as I feel such...

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2 December 2022

Diary of a Tiger: Fri 2 Dec 2022

Chapter 55: Friday 2 December So I’ve not done a Diary of a Tiger since 16 November. That’s dreadful, Diane! Not that I’ve been idle, of course. Or not all of the time at least. For the tail-end of the first week, I was finishing an electronic edit for the history publishers. We were already behind on this due to...

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1 December 2022

That time of year – planning!

Today is 1 December, which means for me it’s the time of year for planning ahead. And I have a lot of planning to do for next year if I want to be more productive yet stop working through the night and at weekends. I won’t do it all in one go, though. I’ll start by planning a week at...

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30 November 2022

NaNoWriMo 2022: WINNER

Day 16: 30 November 2022 I took it to the wire, but I got there! Day 1 = 3,706 words Day 2 = 2,508 words Day 3 = 2,585 words Day 4 = 1,412 words Day 5 = 2,743 words Day 6 = 967 words Day 7 = 2,641 words Day 8 = 2,730 words Day 9 = 2,935 words...

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