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Thursday 18 July 2024: Announcement!

I had a bit of a slow, lazy start to the day yesterday. The temperature finally reached something close to ‘normal’ for summer and I thought it was too hot…

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Wednesday 17 July 2024: Soapbox alert

We had a good evening, the dog and I. We didn’t go for another walk as we played ball instead in the garden. For hours. He got lots of sticky…

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Thursday 11 July 2024: Early mornings ahead

From today, we have a week-and-a-half of early starts. Today one of the cars has to go in for MOT and service. Tomorrow, we’re at the hospital. We have a…

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Wednesday 3 July 2024: Productive day

After a bit of a rough night, we were up relatively early to take the poet to the dentist. He was full of cold (hence the rough night) and secretly…

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Thursday 27 June 2024: Success!

The plan was to step away from the newsletter for a day or so and get on with some other work. However, there was one thing I wanted to do:…

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Thursday 20 June 2024: More writing!

After a late night on Sunday submitting the cosy mystery for the anthology, Monday started later than usual. Over breakfast, though, I dealt with emails, one of which had come…

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Monday 14 August 2023: Flying off the shelves

First job Friday morning was a trek down to the doctor’s to collect a repeat prescription. It’s less than five minutes away, on foot, so I was there and back…

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Thursday 10 August 2023: A morning of writing

For the second day on the trot the poet was up early and off on a business trip. On Tuesday he had to drive south to the midlands. Yesterday he…

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Tuesday 8 August 2023: A fragmented day

The weekend went by in a bit of a blur. Not because of anything in particular. I just don’t feel like I even had a weekend. We were up early…