Wednesday 17 May 2023: Home-made pasta bake
The poet made a cheesy tuna pasta bake that we saw in the latest Slimming World magazine for tea on Monday. The recipe was for six but he thought it would…
Tuesday 16 May 2023: New gig & posters day
I’m still trying to get used to this new editor in WordPress. It’s not such a shock any more, but it still makes me sit back a moment and get…
Monday 15 May 2023: Messing with stuff
After spending the best part of Thursday redesigning the blog and not being entirely satisfied with it by close of play, the first thing I did on Friday was revisit…
Friday 12 May 2023: A regular weekend
If the dog woke up in the middle of the night on Wednesday, I slept right through it. The poet’s alarm woke me up and even then I went straight…
Book Review: The House Keepers
This feature is in association with NetGalley. The Housekeepers by Alex Hay Many thanks to NetGalley and to Headline Review for letting me see an advance reader’s copy of The…
Thursday 11 May 2023: Losing track of time
I’m losing all track of time this week… this month, if truth be known. It must be all of these extra bank holidays that we’re getting. My little road trip…
Wednesday 10 May 2023: Short roadtrip
We slept in on Tuesday morning and while the poet went straight to his desk, I arrived quite a bit later. I made us both breakfast, caught up with social…
Tuesday 9 May 2023: Busy weekend
It may have been a holiday weekend, but it was a busy one all the same. For most of Saturday I was glued to the telly watching the coronation. I’m…
Monday 8 May 2023: Another bank holiday
I’m not complaining. There was a time that I was working all hours when I went self-employed and I started to resent it when there were bank holidays and I…
Friday 5 May 2023: Another long weekend ahead
(Big sigh.) I had *another* late start yesterday, once again because of a disturbed night. The dog seems to have a bit of an upset stomach and he kept wanting…
Thursday 4 May 2023: Ch-ch-changes…
I started the day yesterday with a lot of bitty jobs but jobs that nonetheless should help me in the future. Once I’d caught up on social media and put…
Wednesday 3 May 2023: A time-consuming start to the week
After a lovely long weekend we were back at it yesterday, albeit with another late start. I made it to my desk at about 11am after catching up on social…
Tuesday 2 May 2023: Holiday weekend + Writing prompts
I was going to do a post for the writing prompts first and publish it on Tuesday and then do the catch up and post it on Wednesday. But I’ve…
Monday 1 May 2023: May Day Bank Holiday
Apart from it being our wedding anniversary today, it’s also a bank holiday in the UK and I try to take all of the bank holidays off, just so I…
Friday 28 April 2023: Birds going bonkers
So, the Buffer thing not auto-posting may have been just a glitch on the day. Yesterday, when I checked, everything had posted normally and there was no warning message in…
Thursday 27 April 2023: Obsessed by the weather
It was grey and dismal at 6:30 yesterday morning when the dog woke me up to let him out, and also a bit damp so I didn’t hold out much…
Wednesday 26 April 2023: Up with the lark… sort of
We woke up yesterday to the sad news that a musican friend of our had passed away. We don’t know the circumstances, but we do know he’d been poorly and…
Tuesday 25 April 2023: A run out to the Hope Valley
We had a bit of a relaxed weekend, but we were perhaps a bit too relaxed. The plan was to go and do the shopping and then go for my…
Monday 24 April 2023: Beautiful flowers
Once again the animals allowed us to sleep through and on Friday we didn’t wake up until 8am! The poet had to get up and dash around because he had…
Friday 21 April 2023: Sleepy head
The animals managed to let us sleep until 7am yesterday. Either they both slept all the way through too, or we were just so dead to the world we didn’t…
Thursday 20 April 2023: Going in the right direction
I seem to be finally heading in the right direction getting work back on track. My diary is much more streamlined and there is a lot more of my own…
Wednesday 19 April 2023: Busy day Tuesday
I was going to try and squeeze in a blog yesterday, between appointments, but then thought I may as well try and get a day ahead again. So I’m writing…
Monday 17 April 2023: Another day of admin
On Friday I did a lot of faff work, but I also got back into the groove for regular work again. Once the faff was out of the way, I…
Busy doing nothing
It’s been a strange week, during which I’ve not done a lot of work. Hardly any, in fact. In fact, I’ve hardly done anything at all, let alone any work….
Reunited
My mom and dad were married in 1954, the day before my mom’s 20th birthday. Something happened to the photographs taken on the day, though, and they had a lot…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Day 5
First job on Wednesday was to go and collect my prescription from the doctors. It was drizzling slightly, but the dog wanted to come with me, so he came too….
Camp NaNo April 2023: Day 4
Day 4 of NaNo didn’t really get off the ground until very late on. It was a bitty, busy day with me having two lots of appointments, one of…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Days 1, 2 & 3
We had another busy weekend. On Saturday morning I had to check what we had in the cupboards already, write a meal plan for this week, and then write up a…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Prep work 3
First thing Friday morning I had my new-patient appointment at our new doctors. So I took some letters to the letterbox and was early for my appointment. This is the…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Prep work 2
As each day passes I’m getting to my desk closer and closer to that magical ten o’clock… I just haven’t made it there yet. First job of the day was…
Camp NaNo April 2023: Prep work 1
It was still morning when I arrived at my desk yesterday and the first thing I did was pick up the workbook I’d deliberately left there the night before and…
Wednesday 29 Mar 2023: Camp NaNoWriMo on the horizon…
I managed to get up a bit earlier yesterday, and that meant I arrived at my desk a bit earlier too. It was too cool to sit and have breakfast…
Tuesday 28 Mar 2023: ISBNs starting 979
I ended up being lazy yesterday. I was still very tired after the clocks going forward and I couldn’t really get going. So I did a load of faff stuff,…