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Tuesday 2 December 2025: Pet shenanigans

And so here we are, in December. Is it snowing yet? I had a physio appointment first thing Thursday morning, and straight after my dirty cuppa, I was off. The…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

0 121  2 Comments on Wednesday 19 November 2025: Need more focus time
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Wednesday 19 November 2025: Need more focus time

I’m not getting very many longer segments of time in which I can focus properly on a job that needs a lot of concentration at the moment. So I’m doing…

0 144  2 Comments on Tuesday 18 November 2025: Back to the beginning
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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…

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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….

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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…

0 163  2 Comments on Thursday 13 November 2025: Editing
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Thursday 13 November 2025: Editing

I forgot to complete my food allergies diary on Tuesday, so that was the first job I did Wednesday morning, while it was still fresh in my mind. The second…

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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…

0 160  2 Comments on Monday 10 November 2025: Editing
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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…

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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…

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Wednesday 5 November 2025: Bonfire Night!

I love Bonfire Night. It’s one of my favourite times of the year. I love the bonfires, the fireworks, the sparklers, the hot dogs, the jacket potatoes, the smell of…

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Tuesday 21 October 2025: Keeping an eye on things

I forgot to mention on Friday, that while we were re-arranging the office furniture around the new internet router, I was doing a lot of crawling around on my knees….

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Friday 18 October 2025: Pandemonium 

And here we are. Another week has flown by and October is already almost over. We had an early start on Wednesday. Not only was the garden man coming back…

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Thursday 16 October 2025: A newer, brighter garden…

…now the work starts… The garden man was back again yesterday, but this time he sneaked up on me and took me by surprise. I was in the process of…

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Wednesday 15 October 2025: Face-plant

The garden man was supposed to be coming back today, as he had an appointment yesterday. But his appointment was cancelled, so he turned up yesterday after all. (I don’t…

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Tuesday 14 October 2025: The garden man is here

I’d already done quite a bit of work on Friday when I got round to writing the blog post. But I got through a lot afterwards as well. I’d just…

0 239  2 Comments on Friday 10 October 2025: Smile! It’s the weekend!
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Friday 10 October 2025: Smile! It’s the weekend!

So I didn’t do a great deal yesterday other than editing. Editing, editing, editing. All day. I did do some housework, and I did feed and water the garden birds….

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Thursday 9 October 2025: Moving, moving, moving… 

…the body, not house… My initial exercise plan arrived from the physiotherapist, plus the link to take it forward. We had a look at the exercises. They were all right,…

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Wednesday 8 October 2025: Armchair gardening

I started the day yesterday downloading garden magazines on Readly for the past year. If I can keep a year of magazines downloaded, then I’ll always have it if that…

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Tuesday 7 October 2025: How did that happen?

I mean, how is it already the 7th of October? It’s blummin ridiculous. Friday So, what happened on Friday? Well, I had some regular weekly tasks, which I did: Weekly…