Tag: Canva
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…
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….
Wednesday 3 September 2025: Organised chaos
Thursday and Friday were a bit chaotic. Thursday Thursday began with my dirty cuppa and with me doing what I could on the limited mobile signal on the mobile phone,…
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…
Thursday 9 May 2025: Another full day
Before going to bed on Tuesday night, I had a play with book covers on Canva. I’m planning Book 7 of the great novella challenge, and I wanted to (a)…
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…
Thursday 3 April 2025: Busy bee
Tuesday was such a busy day, I wanted to take it easier on Wednesday. But there were more jobs on the to-do list and one of them took longer than…
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 24 February 2025: Publication day!
It’s publication day today for my SHORT STORY The Weather Can Be Murder, Wordsworth Short #36. This is a story I wrote as an assignment for the fantasy thriller workshop….
Thursday 6 February 2025: Short n sweet
How can it be Thursday already? So, I didn’t move into the living room in the end to do the client edit on Tuesday. I remembered (and saw) the reading…
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…
Tuesday 19 November 2024: Snow watch
After a busy and lazy weekend we struggled to get up on Monday. And while I was having breakfast, I wandered off down another rabbit hole, this time watching a…
Monday 4 November 2024: Publication day!
Before I carry on, I’d just like to say IT’S PUBLICATION DAY! Paper Roses, a Wordsworth short, is out today! You can buy it from Books2Read/DianeWordsworth. Right, after I posted…
Friday 18 October 2024: Home again!
I was a day behind all week on my blog posts, so when the poet finished his work on Wednesday and we decided to head home on Thursday, I didn’t…
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…
Friday 12 April 2024: Late up!
Oh my goodness, what a late start we had on Thursday. We’d had a really rough night with the dog. He was all right in the end, but from 2am…
Friday 23 February 2024: Things picking up again
It started to rain during the night on Wednesday. I remember waking up and registering it and then going straight back to sleep. Instead of lying there listening to it!…
Wednesday 14 February 2024: Happy Valentine’s Day!
I like Valentine’s Day. I’ve always liked Valentine’s Day. And not because I’m a soppy old mush. (Just ask the poet!) But because it’s such a lovely, cheerful time of…


































