Tag: Affinity
Tuesday 11 November 2025: Playing with images
Last week I ordered a food and allergies diary in a bid to see if there’s a pattern with my skin. That arrived on Friday, and I started it yesterday…
Tuesday 23 September 2025: Mixed emotions
Friday was mostly about getting the last 2 stories for the next bookazine proof-read and formatted. But before I could start on those, I had to write up, choose an…
Tuesday 16 September 2025: Too much faffing
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…
Thursday 11 September 2025: Playing with Affinity
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…
Wednesday 10 September 2025: Ten down, two to go
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….
Friday 15 August 2025: Still publishing…
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….
Friday 11 July 2025: Weekend again already
And just like that…it’s Friday again! Crikey. I feel as though I’ve wasted an entire week, but actually, I should stop beating myself up. I spent several days working on…
Thursday 10 July 2025: More book covers
First job Wednesday morning, after feeding the dog and the birds, was Week 3 of the 50 crime mystery prompts workshop. This is the final workshop in this course. I…
Wednesday 9 July 2025: More faffing
Before I went into hospital back at the beginning of March, I’d lost 8lb on the 16:8 ‘diet’. When I came out of hospital, I had to take it easy…
Tuesday 8 July 2025: Cover work
After a lovely break in Stratford last week, yesterday was back to normal, apart from having grand-doggy #1 with us to get us up on time. We were both exhausted…
Friday 27 June 2025: Power failure
So I was busily working away on Thursday, going through the regular jobs on auto-pilot, thinking I had the whole day ahead of me. Which, of course, I did. Just…
Tuesday 25 February 2025: Falling behind
I did a lot of work at the weekend on the editing job and I finished yesterday’s blog post on Sunday so I could schedule it and carry on with…
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…
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…
Tuesday 10 September 2024: Bonus work time
I had bonus work time Monday morning as before I’d even got out of bed there was a text message from my dentist saying the hygienist was poorly and could…
Thursday 5 September 2024: Tired just looking at it all
September work proper finally got underway yesterday. But still I had to rejig things around so that I don’t fall too far behind. I’ve had to step away from the…
Wednesday 4 September 2024: Free image Wednesday
I had a play yesterday with AI-generated art, but I very quickly got confused and concerned about, well, everything really. Within an hour or so of publishing them, I took…
Monday 19 August 2024: More unexpected DIY
I spent most of Friday catching up with the proofreading job. I’d done my own proofreading, but now I had to consolidate mine with the author’s and the proofreader’s. It…
Friday 16 August 2024: Up to my neck in pictures
Oh, my goodness! I’ve only gone and chosen an image by the founder of Pixabay himself! 😮 The day started quite well yesterday. The plan was to finally send out…
Monday 12 February 2024: Budgeting to faff
I often notice myself disappearing down various rabbit holes. And these rabbit holes can be all shapes and sizes. Usually, they’re research holes. Often, they’re faffing holes, where I start…
Friday 9 January 2024: Friday already?
Wow. Friday again. That came around quick… We both slept really well on Wednesday night resulting in us both getting up on time. I did get up with the poet…
Friday 5 January 2024: Running smoothly
Wednesday I didn’t get up on time on Wednesday thanks to the dog waking me up at 4:30am and me failing to get back to sleep until 10 minutes after…
Monday 4 December 2023: New planning process
I had to step away from both the blog and the planning work on Thursday and get on with some work. The blog was nudging 2,000 words and getting far…
Thursday 5 October 2023: “Have you written anything?”
Him: “Who’s the musician in the house?” Me: “That’s my husband.” Him: “What do you do?” Me: “I’m a writer.” Him: “Really? Have you written anything?” [beat] Me: “What do…

































