Tag: garden
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…
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…
Thursday 6 November 2025: New schedule begins
Last job of the day on Tuesday was supposed to be schedule work. Then I remembered yesterday’s entry for 12 stories in 12 months. It’s rare I get this done…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tuesday 19 August 2025: A 2-gig weekend
A lot of our friends have 2-gig weekends. Many have 3-gig weekends. And when there’s a bank holiday, they have 4- or 5-gig weekends, some with 2 gigs in one…
Friday 25 July 2025: Getting better, slowly
Slow start to the day yesterday. We’re both still really struggling with Covid, and neither of us is definitely clear of it yet. We both think we can do something,…
Tuesday 15 April 2025: The spring bulbs are blooming
The weekend was a full and busy one and even felt a bit hectic, even though we steadily plodded our way through everything that needed doing. Saturday Saturday didn’t start…
Wednesday 13 November 2024: I fell down a rabbit hole
Everything was all going so well too…But at least I was ahead, which probably had something to do with it as well. We were woken on Tuesday morning by something…
Tuesday 16 July 2024: The garden needs attention
We were up early because the poet was off to the midlands for a week-long business trip. The dog had a mad run around the garden, but then went back…
Tuesday 30 January 2024: Too much people, again…
I had too much people yesterday. Yes, two people is too much. (Although the second person was really three…) Saying that, the two dogs I saw were perfectly fine. One…
Monday 18 December 2023: Up with the lark
Well, not so much up with the lark as up with the poet, but you get the drift. I had a very busy day ahead of me on Friday so…
Monday 30 October 2023: Improvement all round
I finished the bibliography work on Friday and I drafted an email in response to the author’s latest email sending yet more material. We’re, like, 4 *working* days away from…
Publication Day! And back to work!
Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. Five Slightly Sinister Short Stories is the latest of my Wordsworth Collections and it contains, well,…




























