Tag: Diane’s Gig List
Friday 22 November 2024: The kindness of folk
Once we were up and about yesterday morning, the first thing the poet tried to do was charge the battery on my car…but he couldn’t get the door to open….
Tuesday 8 October 2024: Getting annoyed with things
Monday morning began with me finalising the outline for THE MYSTERY AT HORTON EDGE on Story Plotter on my tablet, which I did straight after breakfast while still in my…
Friday 26 April 2024: Locked in!
Thursday morning I caught up with reading I IS FOR INNOCENT. I didn’t warm to this one straight away, but I think that’s because I didn’t really like H. However,…
Friday 19 April 2024: Annoyed!
I finished reading H IS FOR HOMICIDE and started to read I IS FOR INNOCENT right afterwards. I finished H feeling a bit meh. I started I, and the meh…
Friday 22 March 2024: At the dentist 😱
Stunning view of the historic pier of Puerto Natales, Chile, on the Seoret Channel, at sunrise on a summer day with the sky covered in gray and pink clouds –…
Friday 16 February 2024: Beautiful flowers
I stopped work in good time to get ready to go out. We’d timed it down to the minute but the plan depended on how fast we’d be served at…
Monday 5 February 2024: Ooh, shiny…
There don’t seem to be enough hours in the day at the moment. In the blink of an eye the day is gone and I’ve not done half of what…
Thursday 4 January 2024: A new regime
While the new regime wasn’t supposed to start until Tuesday, I did actually do some work on Monday too. We’d already spent some time rearranging the office, and on Monday…
Friday 29 December 2023: The bit in the middle
Did you have a lovely Christmas? Ours was very relaxed. We didn’t do any baking, but of course the poet still cooked us a rather splendid Christmas dinner. We had…
Tuesday 12 December 2023: Some good news…
…and some less good news. The weekend was busy but great. First of all we took the dog to the vet for another blood test and the result was very…
Tuesday 5 December 2023: Best laid plans of mice and men…
The rest of Friday was great. I can’t remember precisely how the rest of Friday went, but that has to be good, right? Ah yes, I remember… I did some…
Tuesday 28 November 2023: Onwards and upwards…
I had such good intentions yesterday. But as with the best laid plans, I think you know what’s coming next… The poet got off to a good start. He didn’t…
Tuesday 24 October 2023: I finished something!
Yay! I actually finished something. Just over a week ago I had a job request land in my in box. My first instinct was to say ‘sorry, I’m full’, but…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 15 April
Chapter 15: Week commencing Friday 15 April Friday It was Good Friday on Friday and, because I’d done all of my work, for the first time in ages I had…
NaNoWriMo 2021 Days 12 – 18
It’s been a whole week since I updated everyone on my NaNoWriMo progress. This is mostly because I took some time off. I took two days to catch up with…
NaNoWriMo 2021 Day 11
By the time Day 11 arrived, I was more than a thousand words over where I should be if I’d done 1,667 words every day, and that was before I…
NaNoWriMo 2021 Day 9
Day 9 of NaNoWriMo was another day I went off down a rabbit hole. I’ve been trying to organise my reading, and so this time I was looking for a…
NaNoWriMo 2021 Day 4
I had a late start for Day 4 of NaNo. A VERY late start. And I also had a lot of work to do. However, I still wanted to do…
Two days off
I worked at the weekend – again – but only so that I could at least have 2 days off this week with the poet. He had to go on…
Another good start…
… but then, Mondays are always a good start. I just struggle for the rest of the week after that. I should have been having a holiday yesterday and today,…
Planning ahead
Thursday 26 August 2021 I had a lot to do on Thursday, so I was happy when I made it to my desk at a reasonable time again. I started…
Mondays are always good…
Monday’s are always good… but then everything usually goes downhill from there! Monday 23 August 2021 Considering I didn’t stop work all weekend and I finished very late on Saturday…
Organised at last
(Asana screenshot in calendar view) This week I needed to concentrate on catching up with the ghostwriting work. Right after having one writing marathon and submitting it, I was straight…
Must focus
Image by Hier und jetzt endet leider meine Reise auf Pixabay aber from Pixabay With such a long to-do list I really ought to try and focus more. My self-discipline…
Brain chaos
Image by ElisaRiva from Pixabay I’ve been a bit preoccupied this week. Not navel-gazing or anything like that. Just trying to sort everything in my head into some sort of…
One step forward …
Image by happyveganfit from Pixabay … one step back. Or that’s how it feels at times. Yesterday didn’t start as well as the day before, but the day before was better…
National lockdown, again
Image by J Garget from Pixabay I didn’t have a great start to the new year. I was busy all day, yet I don’t appear to have got anything done….
Coming soon! + Links galore!
My book, The Life of Richard Cadbury, is due to be released on 30 November. The book is available for pre-order from Pen & Sword Books and from Amazon UK….
Squeezing the work in
This morning I finally started the next book for NetGalley. Well, actually, I re-started it as I’d already read a couple of chapters and I wanted to refresh my memory….
Do you need a logo?
So I’ve been reading this series about making money from home (Make Money from Home series by Sally Miller), and I’m finding it very interesting and informative. I’m trying a…
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Off
The day started on time yesterday, but much of the morning was spent on admin. I checked in with the content editing job first thing, but there was no work…
Almost human again
I thought I was just tired and overdoing things a bit, but an upset stomach turned into full-blown flu symptoms. Before I started to feel poorly, I tidied up a…
Monday 7 October 2019
Friday morning began with some Pomodoro admin and a jigging about of each one, resulting in one Pomodoro less per day and a shorter dinner break, but longer Pomodoro breaks….