Tag: dogs
Wednesday 15 April 2026: Surprise visit
After I finished for the day on Monday, and after tea, we changed the bed. The reason this is even being noted is because we swapped out the brushed cotton…
Friday 27 February 2026: Bye, bye, Hawley 💙
Gosh, yesterday was busy. I thought Tuesday and Wednesday had been busy, but along came Thursday, saying, ‘hold my coat!’ The day started with the poet opening his presents and…
Tuesday 24 February 2026: World Bartenders’ Day
How was your weekend? Did you have a good one? Friday I was busy all day and the first thing I did once I hit my desk, after playing with…
Friday 20 February 2026: Love Your Pet Dog Day
Apparently, it’s Love Your Pet Dog Day today. I don’t think I need to say we love our pet dogs every day, and everyone else’s too! I’m late again today,…
Thursday 19 February 2026: Tug of War Day
Apparently, it’s Tug of War Day today. I can’t remember the last time I participated in a proper tug of war, or even watched one in action. Saying that, I…
Wednesday 18 February 2026: Ash Wednesday
It was Shrove Tuesday yesterday, and that makes it Ash Wednesday today. I wrote a short story a long time ago called Ash Wednesday. It was broadcast on BBC Radio…
Thursday 12 February 2026: Freedom!
Another lazy start to the day yesterday as I headed off for my last (hopefully) appointment for the light therapy treatment. The dogs hadn’t kept us awake half the night,…
Thursday 5 February 2026: Catch-up
The weekend Saturday was tied up with just shopping and more workshop catch-up, and we took the dogs for a short walk. On our way home from the supermarket, we…
Wednesday 4 February 2026: Thursday & Friday
Thursday I had a really bad start to the day on Thursday. A pain in my side woke me up at around 2:30am and it took some time to get…
Thursday 29 January 2026: I finished a short story
Woke up yesterday to a big blue sky, sunshine, and frost. The rain seemed a distant memory, until I went out later and saw the aftermath of some of the…
Wednesday 28 January 2026: Busy day
We had a bit of a rough night after Storm Chandra made landfall. America freezes and the United Kingdom floods! Is Australia on fire? The worst of the rain hasn’t…
Tuesday 27 January 2026: Rant alert…
Friday began with another trip to the hospital. My appointment was slightly later this time, due to the appointments confusion now remedied. But that meant I could have my full…
Wednesday 21 January 2026: Roof man here
I had to get up early yesterday because the roof man was apparently coming. He’d warned it was weather-dependent and as it hasn’t really stopped raining (or snowing for a…
Tuesday 16 December 2025: The weekend
This post also appears on Patreon. Saturday seems to have vanished into a puff of smoke. I think we were busy, but as I write this on Monday afternoon, I’m…
Wednesday 10 December 2025: Tech issues again
This post also appears on Patreon. After 2 disturbed nights on the trot and the previous day’s intense concentration on my annual finances, I really struggled to get up yesterday….
Friday 5 December 2025: Gantt charts
This post also appears on Patreon. I had an early start on Thursday because, although I didn’t have to go for a light therapy session, another contractor was coming to…
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…
Thursday 27 November 2025: Editing
I refused to be beaten on Tuesday and I took the editing I hadn’t done during the day into the living room to do during the evening. I’d had my…
Wednesday 26 November 2025: Posh ice cream
And just like that, this is the last-but-one blog post for November. The day after tomorrow is the wrap-up and then we’ll be into the last month of the year…
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…
Monday 24 November 2025: It rained. A lot.
We had a very good night on Thursday. Dogs were fed at about 10:30pm, which meant they both slept right through. Yay! They were up with the poet, who fed…
Friday 21 November 2025: More snow!
I was scrolling through Facebook over my dirty cuppa yesterday morning when I saw a post from the Doncaster Free Press saying it was snowing across Doncaster ‘this morning’. I…
Thursday 20 November 2025: Snow!
I’ve got out of the habit of writing today’s blog post during the previous day and scheduling it to post at 8am. I suppose the obvious reason for this is…
Tuesday 18 November 2025: Back to the beginning
On Saturday I had to work. I still had that editing job to do and send off to be set and I wanted it off my desk sooner rather than…
Monday 17 November 2025: Squally weather
Storm Claudia arrived on Friday in the relatively early hours. I knew there was a storm brewing out at sea, but I didn’t know it was expected to make landfall….
Friday 14 November 2025: More editing
And here we are, Friday again. Already mid-November (almost). Christmas isn’t far away. Before we know it, it’ll be next year! Lazy late start yesterday. Pup very kindly didn’t wake…
Wednesday 12 November 2025: More covers work
Yesterday morning began, bright and early again, with me first letting the puppy out and then feeding them both about an hour later. I had my dirty cuppa and read…
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…
Monday 10 November 2025: Editing
I forgot to pre-write the blog on Friday again. Tut, tut. Not a lot happened…well, I was very busy, but it was all the same kind of thing. Editing, pet…
Friday 7 November 2025: A shiny new fence
And here we are. Friday again already… Yesterday began rather like the day before had, with me making corrections to the blog post over a dirty cuppa on my mobile…





































