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0 108  2 Comments on Tuesday 28 April 2026: Pottering in the garden
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Tuesday 28 April 2026: Pottering in the garden

As I hadn’t lost any weight since going onto plain water during my fasting hours, I went back to the dirty tea first thing. If it wasn’t having any affect,…

0 175  2 Comments on Friday 24 April 2026: Good news at last!
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Friday 24 April 2026: Good news at last!

We had a really, really good start to the day yesterday. The dog got us up before the alarm went off again. Three times. First he wanted out. Then he…

0 157  2 Comments on Thursday 23 April 2026: Happy St George’s Day!
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Thursday 23 April 2026: Happy St George’s Day!

I must say, starting the working day an hour later during BST seems to be working. Although I’m often up around half an hour before the alarm (puppy…), this seems…

0 172  2 Comments on Wednesday 22 April 2026: More publishing
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Wednesday 22 April 2026: More publishing

Overnight I had a return email regarding the workshop I wanted to join in May. Yes, the study along had been cancelled, but not because of a low uptake. They…

0 166  2 Comments on Monday 20 April 2026: What do readers want?
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Monday 20 April 2026: What do readers want?

Hundreds of people read or visit this blog every day. Hundreds of people subscribe to it. If anyone wants to comment on something I’ve written, some comment on the blog…

0 155  2 Comments on Thursday 16 April 2026: Phantom scales
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Thursday 16 April 2026: Phantom scales

It was so much easier yesterday getting up an hour later. There was no pressure for me to get up before I was ready and, in actual fact, I got…

0 143  2 Comments on Wednesday 15 April 2026: Surprise visit
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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…

0 160  2 Comments on Tuesday 14 April 2026: April showers
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Tuesday 14 April 2026: April showers

After strong winds last week, and some squally storms, it seems April showers proper finally arrived at the weekend. We went out for walks on both days, and on both…

0 184  4 Comments on Monday 13 April 2026: Editing, editing, editing…
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Monday 13 April 2026: Editing, editing, editing…

After I’d closed down on Thursday, I realised I hadn’t done my daily words. My eyes were tired and I’d finished early to give them a rest. But not ticking…

0 212  2 Comments on Friday 10 April 2026: All about weight loss, or not…
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Friday 10 April 2026: All about weight loss, or not…

And here we are again. Another Friday and almost at the halfway point for the month of April. So scary. Yesterday did not start as well as the day before….

0 232  2 Comments on Thursday 9 April 2026: Getting on with it
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Thursday 9 April 2026: Getting on with it

Yesterday was such a good day, starting bang on time over a dirty cuppa. I had my reading half hour and a housework half hour then took the dog for…

0 271  2 Comments on Wednesday 11 February 2026: Short n sweet
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Wednesday 11 February 2026: Short n sweet

I had a nice, leisurely start to the day on Tuesday. The poet was up and away early and I was able to go back to bed…until the dogs decided…

0 306  2 Comments on Tuesday 10 February 2026: So much rain
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Tuesday 10 February 2026: So much rain

Friday Friday started as usual with my dirty cuppa and my quiet hour. I didn’t get any reading done, and my reading hour does seem to have slipped off the…

0 354  2 Comments on Friday 6 February 2026: More catch-up
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Friday 6 February 2026: More catch-up

Wednesday We had an unexpected sprinkling of snow on Tuesday night, which was nice to watch. It didn’t last long, though, as it was very wet and very quickly turned…

0 357  3 Comments on Wednesday 14 January 2026: Steady work
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Wednesday 14 January 2026: Steady work

So yesterday I was bragging a bit about neither of us feeling particular blue because our respective football (soccer) teams both won in the FA Cup round at the weekend….

0 480  4 Comments on Tuesday 23 December 2025: So, where were we…?
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Tuesday 23 December 2025: So, where were we…?

This post also appears on Patreon. Ah, Wednesday… Well, Wednesday was a very long time ago, or so it seems. We also had errands to run, on top of dermatology…

0 397  2 Comments on Wednesday 17 December 2025: Monday & Tuesday
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Wednesday 17 December 2025: Monday & Tuesday

This post also appears on Patreon. I should really be on holiday now, but I promised an author I’d have their book back to them by a certain date and,…

Christmas tree ornaments, little books
0 423  3 Comments on Monday 15 December 2025: Selfish gits
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Monday 15 December 2025: Selfish gits

This post also appears on Patreon. So it’s Monday again already and, in this household at least, we start our march towards the big day. Friday seems such a long…

0 396  2 Comments on Friday 12 December 2025: Short n sweet
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Friday 12 December 2025: Short n sweet

This post also appears on Patreon. And here we are again. The end of another week already. It was quite non-stop and busy yesterday again, as I get ready to…

0 438  2 Comments on Thursday 11 December 2025: Got some work done
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Thursday 11 December 2025: Got some work done

This post also appears on Patreon. Wednesday morning is one of my 3 weekly light therapy sessions at the hospital. It takes up the best part of the entire morning…

0 432  2 Comments on Monday 8 December 2025: Busy weekend, again
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Monday 8 December 2025: Busy weekend, again

This post also appears on Patreon. Friday was a busy day. The morning was taken up with my 3rd dermatology appointment (3 down, 21 to go). This appointment really does…

0 708  2 Comments on Tuesday 2 December 2025: Pet shenanigans
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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…

0 453  2 Comments on Thursday 27 November 2025: Editing
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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…

0 366  2 Comments on Wednesday 26 November 2025: Posh ice cream
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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…

0 429  3 Comments on Tuesday 25 November 2025: All quiet in the mad house
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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…

0 434  2 Comments on Monday 24 November 2025: It rained. A lot.
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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…

0 470  2 Comments on Thursday 20 November 2025: Snow!
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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…

0 500  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…

0 436  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…

0 435  2 Comments on Monday 17 November 2025: Squally weather
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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….