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Thursday 4 December 2025: Newsletter is out

This post also appears on Patreon. I didn’t get around to writing the micro-fiction short story on Tuesday for this month’s 12 stories in 12 months, but I didn’t beat…

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Wednesday 3 December 2025: Bit of a catch up

This post also appears on Patreon. I forgot another job I did last week, planning the micro story for this month’s 12 stories in 12 months. This is a brand-new…

0 138  3 Comments on Tuesday 25 November 2025: All quiet in the mad house
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Tuesday 25 November 2025: All quiet in the mad house

The mad house seems to be settling down a bit now, after a few fraught weeks. Then it will all start up again as soon as my light therapy treatments…

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Thursday 6 November 2025: New schedule begins

Last job of the day on Tuesday was supposed to be schedule work. Then I remembered yesterday’s entry for 12 stories in 12 months. It’s rare I get this done…

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Thursday 30 October 2025: Back to work

I thought I’d make a start on catching up with the blogs again just in time for the wrap-up and month ahead posts tomorrow and on Monday. I don’t have…

0 220  2 Comments on Wednesday 29 October 2025: Perfect partners
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Wednesday 29 October 2025: Perfect partners

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….

0 280  2 Comments on Friday 3 October 2025: Silly billy
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Friday 3 October 2025: Silly billy

Gosh, this is a long one. Make your favourite drink and pull up a chair… Monday The poet was up bright an early on Monday morning to head off down…

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Wednesday 17 September 2025: Another book on the way…

I had a much better start to the day yesterday. I was up on time. I was at my desk on time. And I started to catch up on a…

0 783  2 Comments on Tuesday 9 September 2025: Last Friday
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Tuesday 9 September 2025: Last Friday

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…

0 746  2 Comments on Thursday 14 August 2025: Publishing
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Thursday 14 August 2025: Publishing

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…

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Wednesday 13 August 2025: Newsletter imminent…

Yesterday seems like quite a while ago, probably because it was a busy day.  Much of the day for me was taken up with writing. I even had a stunted…

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Thursday 7 August 2025: This week!

Well, it’s Thursday already, and I’m only just catching up on this week. At least it is this week, though, and not last week still. The weekend Monkey Dust had…

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Thursday 17 July 2025: Fairly productive

We had a very late night on Tuesday, for some reason, which resulted in us both struggling to get up on Wednesday. We had to drag ourselves out of bed,…

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Wednesday 16 July 2025: It rained!

The day started well again yesterday. Especially when we woke to see it had rained. Yay! I began the work day with revisiting the diary again and lumping jobs all…

0 449  2 Comments on Monday 23 June 2025: Heatwave 
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Monday 23 June 2025: Heatwave 

Friday seems like such a long time ago and, of course, I didn’t write the blog post as I went along, so now I’m trying to recall it all from…

0 479  2 Comments on Thursday 19 June 2025: Productive few days
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Thursday 19 June 2025: Productive few days

By the end of Tuesday, UK time, the new week’s videos still weren’t up for the 50 murder mystery prompts workshop. First thing Wednesday morning, I looked, and there they…

0 396  2 Comments on Wednesday 18 June 2025: Wallowing
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Wednesday 18 June 2025: Wallowing

After a really late night on Sunday I had an extra hour in bed on Monday, which put me an hour behind on the rest of the day too. I…

0 414  2 Comments on Tuesday 17 June 2025: Good work rhythm
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Tuesday 17 June 2025: Good work rhythm

I was up on time on Friday, and instead of reading a newspaper or playing a game, once I’d fed and watered the garden birds, I read a short story…

0 549  2 Comments on Friday 13 June 2025: Writing prompts
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Friday 13 June 2025: Writing prompts

I managed to get up on time on Thursday and feed and water the birds before settling down with my dirty cuppa. Instead of watching a video, though, I read…

0 402  2 Comments on Wednesday 11 June 2025: Always learning
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Wednesday 11 June 2025: Always learning

Monday was a busy day. The day started with me catching up with jobs I hadn’t finished by the end of Friday. So while I ran a couple of backups,…

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Thursday 22 May 2025: Productive day

I received a number of emails on Tuesday evening, first letting me know that the blinds would be delivered by Friday, and then telling me they’d be delivered on Thursday….

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Tuesday 20 May 2025: Using the conservatory

WE WEREN’T OVERLY BUSY at the weekend, but we did get a lot done. Saturday First of all we needed to go shopping, as always, and we did that on…

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Monday 12 May 2025: The weekend that was

Friday seems like such a long time ago. We must have had a good weekend. I know I forgot to write today’s blog post, so I’m writing it Monday morning…

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Tuesday 6 May 2025: We’re back!

Did anyone notice we were gone? We had a lovely 2½ weeks doing the NC500 in our campervan. The NC500 is the North Scotland coastal route and it’s about 520…