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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…

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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…

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Friday 19 September 2025: Skipped a day

So I got out of sync and missed a day, but thought it was fine. I had plenty of time to climb back on board before Friday…and then I ran…

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Friday 12 September 2025: A bit of a slow-burn rant…

I re-designated the flylady hour as the faff hour. I still have the housework and daily chores to do, but I wasn’t liking the regimental aspect of it. Yes, I…

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Tuesday 9 September 2025: Last Friday

We struggled to get up on Friday, probably because we’d been so rudely awakened the day before when we thought we were getting a lie in. It resulted in both…

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Friday 22 August 2025: Bank holiday weekend ahead!

Ohmygosh, I was soooo tired on Wednesday night, we went to bed early and as soon as my head hit that pillow I was literally gone. The next thing I…

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Thursday 21 August 2025: Editing all day

I had to get up early yesterday because the campervan had to go in to have some work done to get it through its MOT. I drove to the lock-up…

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Wednesday 11 June 2025: Always learning

Monday was a busy day. The day started with me catching up with jobs I hadn’t finished by the end of Friday. So while I ran a couple of backups,…

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Wednesday 21 May 2025: Another short story written

So, after talking the poet into going to price up curtains for the conservatory (it wasn’t *that* easy), he made a quiche and put some jacket potatoes in the oven….

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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…

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Wednesday 5 March 2025: Publication day!

Monday was publication day for Ash Wednesday, Flash Fiction #13. The plan was to plug it yesterday, as Monday’s post was the month ahead. But I missed yesterday too, so…

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Thursday 27 February 2025: Smashwords 2025 Read an Ebook Week

As it was Wednesday, I had a midweek shopping errand to run. I’m keeping the midweek shopping errand. It gets the car out and moves my body on top of…

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Wednesday 26 February 2025: Happy Birthday, Hubster!

I experimented a bit with the cherry crumble topping on Monday night. The poet had already stoned and washed the cherries and I put them on to stew a little…

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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…

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Friday 7 February 2025: A publishing day

Yesterday turned into a bit of a publishing day. I still have a few books to get out before I push the publishing side of things to one side, and…