Tag: 12 stories in 12 months
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Friday 4 April 2025: Snowball effect
So yesterday started really well with all the usual chores. I hung a washload out, put another one through, fed and watered the garden birds, emptied the dishwasher, started to…
Friday 28 March 2025: Off to the theatre, darling!
After getting up early on Wednesday, I slept in a bit on Thursday. I was only 10 minutes after the alarm, so not too bad. But I was tired. I’d…
Thursday 20 March 2025: Steady work
Yesterday wasn’t a bad day. Over my ‘dirty’ cuppa, I finished re-reading Jane Eyre. It’s one of the set reading books for the gothic writing workshop that happens at the…
Wednesday 19 March 2025: Reviewing the situation
March was always going to be a big month, even with a hospital visit and a 2-week convalescence. Then I lost 2 whole days to the tax/NI fiasco as well….

Thursday 27 February 2025: Smashwords 2025 Read an Ebook Week
As it was Wednesday, I had a midweek shopping errand to run. I’m keeping the midweek shopping errand. It gets the car out and moves my body on top of…
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…
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…
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…
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…

Friday 10 January 2025: To boldly go or not to boldly go…?
And there we have it. The first full week of 2025 is done. It’s frightening, but a reminder that time waits for no man, so it certainly won’t wait for…
Thursday 9 January 2025: Ramblings
Wednesday morning started well. The birds had their first feed of the day (they really are eating a lot in this snow) and I’d shared yesterday’s blog post within about…
Tuesday 7 January 2025: A good start
I packed a lot into the last 2 days of the week last week, and I packed a bit into the weekend as well. Saturday I was determined to have…
Tuesday 17 December 2024: Soap box alert!
We were away last week for a few days, down south in Faversham, which is only a few miles away from the south coast. We drove down on Tuesday, the…
Wednesday 11 December 2024: 12 Stories in 12 Months
image created in CanvaPro I didn’t have any idea what to write about today as we were travelling for much of yesterday, from north to south. Very south. The morning…
Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!
Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…
Friday 6 December 2024: In a rhythm again
I’m still trying to catch up with the blog, but I think I’m getting there. I spent a couple of hours on Thursday at teatime watching Flight FR2088 coming back…
Thursday 5 December 2024: Catching up…
The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may have noticed that the blog is running a bit behind at the moment, about half a day behind. This is because I’ve been writing it…
Wednesday 4 December 2024: My 12-project planner
Isn’t my 12-project planner wonderful? I keep mentioning it, so I thought I ought to at least give you a hint of what it looks like. This image is of…
Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up
Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…
Monday 25 November 2024: Publication day!
I was busy on Friday trying to catch up with everything. I wrote Friday’s blog, chose the picture, published it, then shared it. I did a quick 5-minute tech declutter….
Monday 11 November 2024: Remembrance Day
The only thing I really worked on on Friday was The Secret of Whitehorse Farm. And even then it was only pre-writing. Everything else was on binder work in Scrivener…